Mesmerised by beauty

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Lecks what can I say.......it broke my heart with its beauty.......thanks for sharing.

I am still caught up in it, tears flowing freely, the pas de deux of the leaves and the bag.......carried by the wind. Absolutely wonderful. What is the name of that film? Is the same as the title of the video? And what he said......blew my mind. How true, his feelings.

I remember sitting in first year Biology at Uni. We were discussing DNA. I was in an auditorium of about 400 students, all much younger than me. The auditorium was very large as you can imagine, so there was a massive projector screen on the front wall. As the lecturer was speaking, a massive projection of the double helix came up on the screen, spinning slowly on its axis. The beauty of it was so breathtaking, that my intake of breath was heard by at least half of the row where I was sitting. It took everything I had not to sob hysterically, throw myself on my knees and claim with fervor:

"Look at that! That is what I am made of! The blueprint of all life! That is beauty most divine. My GOD, look at the beauty.......it is killing me!! !!".

It took for the image to be replaced before my heart would take its normal rhythm. I figured I was a bit deranged. It effected me for the whole day.

On a lighter note......your avatar......LOVED 30 days of Night......so much so, that I started collecting the comic book series.

Thank you.......again.

Mics

Ah love it.......I am in the moment too now

Thanks Aimless

Mics

Ah dear person......what a shame that a moron spoilt that moment and hurt you.....I hope you were okay after that.

Take care,

Mics

Michhsta

The movie is American Beauty, a wonderful film. Here's a bit.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q3ltyPJJMQ[/youtube]

Awesome, have you by any chance read "In Ghostly Japan" by Laifcado Hearn, I am probably misspelling his name.

And the law can't touch you for it....some people have all the luck

Hello Inuit

I get exactly what you mean about being captivated by things in nature, to me trees in the right kind of light take on a presence, like rare beings, that is hard to put in words. And the annying thing is other people can't see it.
Uncannily we might have something else in common as I live in Newcastle !

I saw one of your posts about learning russian. I haven't tried russian but I have been obsessed for a long time with learning Chinese, in particular learning the characters. I love it ! I don't learn that quickly but it is sticking with practice and it feels like learning to read for the very first time.

all the best

Neil

i am less likely to be mesmerised by visual beauty except when it's something that's i see for the very first time and is way beyond my expectations (eg Ayres Rock/Uluru in Australia and my cats). yet i can be totally in awe of someone's personality + talent + charm. maybe because i am not particularly good at anything, when i come across people who are exceptionally talented and passionate about certain things to which i aspire, i would feel so privilege to be even in the same room with them. yet these individuals are very hard to come by.

This is fascinating. I don't know that I experience this quite as powerfully as you do, but I have been reduced to tears just looking at certain mountains or deserts. I think it's also one reason why I cannot stand to hike with other people, for instance. They don't appreciate what I'm seeing.

That is why I claim to be a physicist and mathematician, all we do is examine and share the beauty of the world with others.

I can be a little obsessive with my visual envronment. I went a little manic recently when we visited a glacier which had lots of bush and waterfalls. I was showing people the photos and I had to keep saying "Waterfall... waterfall... another of a waterfall.. waterfall.... waterfall..." I thnk I took about 20 pictures of the same waterfall. It was a lovely one, big and with several different streams, going off a cliff face. I dont really like people in my photos, just the landscape, or an animal maybe... I like people to be little stick figures which are part of the landscape, but the landscape being the real objective of the photos.

I do like taking photos of people sometimes, but I like to take them in action, like being an observer of them.