Comments on: Moments

By: Trent Jordan

Trent Jordan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:56:52 +0000

Imagine you had never experienced this world, that you were in some sort of experience-less purgatory, where you knew words and ideas, but you had no concept of what the world was really like, and for one instance in your existence, you were allowed one glimpse of what life was, but it would only last for 257 seconds.

By: network marketing

network marketing — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:03:51 +0000

This videos of moments explore us about life importance. Really nice it is.

By: western australia flower

western australia flower — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:07:42 +0000

Wnen I watch this video,I understand how beautifull is our life..
But in our long life,we dont remeber the true memories,cause or minds controll the job or family!

By: Flux

Flux — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:33:46 +0000

I liked the message.
Life is wonderful and tragic. Yet there is a certain beauty even in the sad moments of our lives. One day, like a balloon that escapes its owner grasp, its simply gone.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:51:25 +0000

Rob:
No, I guess I just prefer to make my own moments, and don’t rely on somebody else to tell me what generic moments I should appreciate.

I gave up after 19 seconds because this was just an apparently random scattering of images. If I want that, I’ll do an image search on google.

By: Dave_Dave

Dave_Dave — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:17:43 +0000

Although it seems that the intention of the video is to make your heart go pitter-patter, I found more value in the discussion it opens up.

I seems as though a moment can be likened to a morpheme in language. Small units that we, in our unaided human perception of time and action, can assign some sense of meaning and intention to in relation to a whole event.

Made me think about how we think. What properties does a snippet of our lives have to possess in order to qualify as a graspable unit that our minds can label as a part going towards a whole or merely a part unto itself. I think that “moments” occur where language can contain an event that lays just within the perceptible boundary of our unaided senses.

By: Trogdar

Trogdar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:45:27 +0000

Can someone mark this as NSFW? There’s no nudity, but some questionable scenes that might not go over well with an employer. Thanks.

By: Kifer

Kifer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:10:44 +0000

This was brilliant. If you cannot appreciate these moments in time, then you are missing out on the major journey that is life. Life is not the end results, for if it was, it would simply be death. Life is all those little in betweens, which is what was captured here.

That is what I see in this video.

By: LisaL

LisaL — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:16:23 +0000

Meh….. not really impressed with things like this. Most of it looked staged/fake and yeah… just not impressed.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:30:02 +0000

19 seconds Ted? Is this a boast about how quickly you think you can distinguish good from bad? About how very busy you are with more important stuff? Or is this a demonstration of an inability to take the time to look and to see? An example of the fact that although beauty is all around us most people, Ted included, do not take even a moment to notice it and appreciate it. I hope that whatever you had to rush to do in that second half of one minute was more substantial and more meaningful but I doubt it was. But it does not matter and you don’t care because you will not have perceived it anyway. Slow down Ted.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:47:17 +0000

I got to about 19 seconds and gave up. Just seemed like a random collection of images with no sense of unity or coherence.

By: e cigarette

e cigarette — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:53:30 +0000

Great song in this one!

By: zavatone

zavatone — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:30:25 +0000

I looked at the scene with the trees, grass, sidewalk, curb and bus and immediately thought, “New Jersey!” Scrolling the video back to read the license plate on the bus, it was indeed, New Jersey.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:44:38 +0000

The song is “Where Were You” by Parachutes.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:18:05 +0000

I assume this is the “life flashing before my eyes” that people talk about after a traumatic event. :^P

By: Tim Giachetti

Tim Giachetti — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:14:10 +0000

I lasted 32 seconds. Then I just shook my head.
Art through symbolism is a waste of time for me. I see these things every day. It’s called society. Wow, it doesn’t take a film to live in it.

By: HugsNotDrugs

HugsNotDrugs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:53:51 +0000

Can anyone confirm if the music was by Sigur Ros?

By: weddings

weddings — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:28:34 +0000

I don’t know what it is about simple shots of life captured on film that renew my appreciation of those moments, but it gets me every time.

By: R00B0y

R00B0y — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:44:48 +0000

This makes me think of: http://vimeo.com/1293253