Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians. He said I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas... The great Carl Sagan narrates this beautiful short film, entitled Wanderers, by Swedish animator and digital artist Erik Wernquist. Wernquist scoured NASAs archives to piece together realistic portrayals of our neighboring planets, and pulled an old audio clip of Sagan reading his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot and layered it over the video. The result is perfection. For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us...edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we havent forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. The appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds. -- From Pale Blue Dot: amazon/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 03:20:15 +0000
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