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All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, Brief Encounter, Chromatics, just one look, like a clock during a thunderstorm
The next in the Cloud’s library of visual and inspirational delights is a short film by Arev Manoukian called ‘Nuit Blanche’.
If ever a silent film worked perfectly, it is this one. From the first few seconds it had me, and I suspect it may have me forever more, for I do not tire of it, ever. The soundtrack is also, perfect.
Esme's Cloud 
Now that’s magnetism. Lol
Well done.
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Aye, a force to be reckoned with at times, clearly – laughs
“Well done” – Thank you Victoria. Only the best quality goods here upon the Cloud don’t you know. – nods smiling
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Lovely…
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It is isn’t it? Quite mesmerising stuff.
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🙂
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NOTHING should stand in the way of “love at first sight!” Well, except fear, huh? Followed by the sleepless nights regretting not saying a word or acting. (wink)
It is a beautiful soundtrack Esme. Thank you Madame!
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There’s always the next dimension Professor laughs. I’m so pleased you enjoyed the soundtrack too, it really is a sublimely constructed piece of art.
esme shaking the Prof’s hand and smiling upon the Cloud
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Although I was alone in the room which took on the dimensions of a very large auditorium the sun was setting and already stars were beginning to appear in the purpling heavens and although both the forest and ocean were closing in on me they were gentle and there I stood… in black and white… wolf whistling and although my hands burn and my legs are tiring I will stand here applauding for several more hours.
I liked this quite a lot. Thank you Esme. An excellent droplet from your most lovely cloud.
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By the Gods of all sizes that’s a wonderful reaction and comment Chris. What beautiful words to set below such a piece. Thank you for all of them, they have me smiling so much. smiles and smiles
esme pulling up a chair for Chris upon the Cloud so he can see those stars all the clearer
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And my goodness – they are much clearer! Who knew?? But of course at this altitude they would be. I’m having a wee bit of trouble breathing though… do you have anything for that, or will I just get used to it?
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You’ll acclimatise within the hour. The Cloud has its own atmosphere that I set depending on the life form (or forms) visiting. This is all hush-hush mind you –looks secretive– as only the select few are ever invited – the rest think only esme can breathe up here.
esme nodding, winking and pouring Chris a peppermint tea whether he likes the stuff or not upon the Cloud
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I will simply sit quietly – honoured – sip my peppermint tea and pretend I’m not actually downstairs washing the supper dishes. Have a lovely evening Esme.
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The dishes part is just an illusion esme conjures to protect your sanity – laughs but nods too.
Lovely to see you Chris.
esme watching the constellations with him then throwing him a tea towel ‘pon the Cloud
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That really was quite a piece of artwork! Nice find, Esme!
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Thanking you kindly misses, beams -for both the words and the watching of the video.
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I love the soundtrack. I would love to watch the movie
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Oh no! Have you tried searching Youtube with the title at your end mak? The music is great, and can stand alone mind.
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The link you shared played. I meant watching the entire performance, I guess it’s part of a longer act?
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Ah I see, no, it’s a short film. That’s all there is. A moment in time captured, slowed down and displayed in all its glory. So intimate. The ending makes it all the more of a real-life experience methinks. This is the best short I’ve ever seen, though I do look at others regularly.
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Mak waving at esme hoping she has been well
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Indeed, magnificent.
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nods – A triumph in many respects.Thank you for the visit Anarette.
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We will soon go out for a walk and smile upwards to the cloud. The ZAB team.
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Beautiful music and a powerful piece of cinematography, Esme.
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Thank you Adele, I found it many moons ago, and was sure I’d already posted it some of that moon-time in the past, but it was sleeping in my drafts (keeping the chill away). I’m pleased you enjoyed it – smiles
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When I saw the title “Poetry in Motion”, I thought this was going to be about She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby. As it turns out this was much better. And that’s hard for me to admit as I love She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby. 🙂
I mean it really was beautiful. I feel like I’ve had such moments a thousand times, although I don’t think the girl looked back at me. lol Probably because I don’t where smart suits enough. It connected to me emotionally though, in how I feel when I see a woman who, to me, is so beautiful that romantic notions fill the head and the physical reality of the world seems but an illusion or immaterial in the context of that moment. Where you see someone so striking to you that all you can think about is getting closer to her. And I’m not talking about sexual feelings. But just a desire to look more carefully at the eyes, to feel the lips against yours, to caress the cheek, to just let that person’s beauty fill your senses. The stillness of your breath being taken away, and the intimate but unconscious knowledge that your heart is beating faster. I find such moments spiritual, human, and absolutely essential to appreciating the wonder that is existence. Thank you for finding and sharing this. If such moments are possible through the blogosphere, it is through the sharing of such beauty that has time slowing down for me as I look in your direction. 🙂
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She Blinded Me With Science’ is a cracking song, with a video to match, so I’m with you there, and glad there was no disappointment after finding out twas something entirely different. Your words are beautiful too Swarn, and I am absolutely sure smart suits play no part, not for the worthy anyway – fortune, chance… perhaps – smiles – it’s a rarity for a moment like this to happen for two at once I’m sure, and absolutely agree that it goes far beyond the physical.
“If such moments are possible through the blogosphere, it is through the sharing of such beauty that has time slowing down for me as I look in your direction.” – Aww, that’s so sweet Swarn – esme curtsying happily at such a disclosure. I’m honoured you’d say so. There’s much to be said for the virtual; minds can meld in a way that takes far longer, if at all offline. The shy become bold, the bold gain humility. If that which is depicted in the film has ever happened to the person watching, they recognise it instantly, it fits like the proverbial glove seamlessly, with an awareness of just how perfectly depicted it truly is.
Thank you for your comment Swarn, you are a lovely guy, and I’m sure your misses is a very happy one – beams.
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Thank you so much for your kind words Esme. 🙂 I agree with you that there is much that the virtual world can bring out in us that might take time in person. I wonder why that is? Perhaps we are all too preoccupied with sex. lol But it’s nice to have an environment with less fear of expression. People like you have so much light and beauty to share, that it’s hard for me imagine you not looking bright to anybody who might pass you on the street looking at you through a window. Sometimes though maybe there is a cost of letting our true selves out of the box in a society full of judges. I guess the internet has them too, but there is such a wealth of information out there, it’s usually just easier to move on to find people you enjoy instead of those you don’t. Either way, in everything you write and share, I simply smile because I get to know a little more about your inner maze of circuitry.
Swarn enjoying the best company and location for sticky buns.
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“I wonder why that is?” – It’s because we aren’t distracted and dictated by the social conventions and restrictions we have been raised to almost rigidly stick to outside of this box – raps the computer – – therefore initial physical attraction is limited to a small avatar of face, (if there is one, and not picture of a cat eating spaghetti in a tutu, and sometimes that might actually help – falls about), in any early stage of a friendship/relationship online. Tis the cerebral that is at the fore. Later perhaps people send more extensive photographs, videos or ‘face jibber’ at one another, but getting to know people initially usually involves rather more insight into the one organ that normally doesn’t get all that much exposure straight off — the brain. (throws two people out for sniggering at ‘organ) People fall in love with the mind before the body online — we may see a couple of photographs but 2D has none of the quirks/tics/body language that would normally give us our positive or negative cues.
So, one falls in love/becomes terribly fond of a mind, predominantly, nay exclusively. How someone ticks. For all of society’s emphasis on appearance, there is no greater compliment than to know you are admired, loved, or fancied to a point of utter distraction purely because of that which you harbour in your head. It’s cutting to the chase basically. It’s who you are at the core (blimey). In real life, if you get together with someone, you may never gain access to that which they show of themselves happily online, though some will filter through of course, (this tends to get rarer as time ticks on and the bath needs cleaning, and the kids need picking up from the ‘Toddler Zumba’ club) because they can’t say it all. They can write it. And of course some people would be unrecognisable offline should you bump into them unwittingly in a pub say, and I don’t mean physically (though yes, I’m sure that does happen quite frequently, especially bearing in mind how many people use flattering photographs which are about ten to fifteen years old) being incredibly shy, or a thousand other hidden attributes that bear no relation to their online persona in 3D. Others will be as near as dammit the same. If you have fallen for their mind first however, you know the heights of wonder they are capable of. You can find out all the faults later on hahahahaha. This all rings the same bell with friendships of course, though the path leans more towards just pure enjoyment/adoration/the gleaning of joy of their being. Their existence. And distance is no barrier. It’s a very different way to access love.
Then there’s age! One of my favourite aspects. I have several older friends, both male and female, and one of them , now in his eighties, is a shameless flirt of the highest degree. He makes Professor Taboo look like a virgin who has just taken her vows. If you didn’t know his age, you’d never know it was above thirty five. And that’s just as it should be! Our bodies age, get wrinkly and saggy eventually, but our minds still have the fire they had within when forty years younger. The web enables one to skate over age without even seeing it. Also, if you have an avatar that isn’t of yourself, people will end up subconciously creating an image of you anyway in their brains — one that they think fits, and I think that’s quite interesting. Had I met my friends who are in their seventies/eighties in 3D, the conversations would never have turned to some of the rum topics that have been exchanged online. The freedom it affords is quite something, and leads to forging relationships (irrelevant of age or physical appearance) of all kinds that are likely to be far more well matched.
What was the question again, I’ve forgotten. Hahahahahaha.
“People like you have so much light and beauty to share, that it’s hard for me imagine you not looking bright to anybody who might pass you on the street looking at you through a window.” – hugs him a lot
“Either way, in everything you write and share, I simply smile because I get to know a little more about your inner maze of circuitry.” – Inner maze of circuity. Gosh that’s nice Swarn — lovely stuff, thank you again, you remind esme that her mission upon the Cloud is working perfectly, for she is sharing said light and beauty with people as wondrous as yourself.
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Great response. I agree with your answer wholeheartedly, but I guess when I asked why I also meant it in the sort of broader sense of why can’t we become more like we are on the internet? Personally I’ve been using it for practice. lol If I like my virtual world persona better, than I figure this is how I should try to be more in the real world. It’s a work in progress. 🙂 It has been my experience, in the words of Robert Frobisher, “All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended”, and that when we do transcend them people mind less than you think they will. In fact I’ve found that most people are happier being free to be themselves than to constantly feel like they have to tuck something away. I am a very open person, and I’ve found that by adopting that attitude people are more at ease around me than they might be with somebody else, because I think we can always tell, when in person somebody is tucking a part of themselves away. We are all waiting for the other person to lay their cards on the table first. I refuse to wait for others, mostly because it just seems like a waste of time, when you can get down to the heart of the matter more quickly. 🙂
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We can! (esme already is, barring the cartwheels and excessive cake and biscuit business). If you create a character, you become closer and closer to it in many ways (so don’t be serial killer character folks, just my two penneth – you’ll all thank me later – hopefully not from Jail), but if you just strive to be a kinder, finer person generally, you will morph that way, because you’re reprogramming your brain, plus, good feedback and generally positive reactions to one’s behaviour makes one (or even two), want to have a bit more of that as it’s very enjoyable, nay rewarding.
You are a fine, sweet man Swarn, kind and very open yes, a man with his heart on his sleeve, and that’s no bad thing at all. Your words – “It has been my experience, in the words of Robert Frobisher, “All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended”, and that when we do transcend them people mind less than you think they will.” prove just that and I heartily agree.
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As I always am with everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) I have to be (gotta be) honest with you. “That looks painful” was what I first thought to myself when watching the above short film. However, upon further reflection, that is, watching the short film again, sleeping on it, and finally passing a day idly (as everyone knows I do, though, due to societal pressures, I try my best to have it appear otherwise) I wondered if my reaction to it (the short film) said more about ‘me’ than about the aforementioned ‘short film’. I seriously began to wonder if my emotional response, being one of pain (accompanied by a physical manifestation of it in my facial muscles in the form of what would be commonly referred to as a ‘grimace’), was the result of some past injury I had been the recipient of. Now, to say, at the thought of this, ‘my mind raced’ would not at all convey the actual speed at which whatever it is in ones mind that does the thinking part was actually moving. In fact (I do believe), had I not been sitting (firmly ensconced (to be honest)) upon the (famed) purple couch I have no doubts that my earthly form would have tumbled quite violently to the ground subsequently incurring yet another injury related to this past event which I, only moments before, swore an oath to rightly recollect and then deal with in a suitable fashion (for my own betterment and in the hope of improving my relationships with other human beings). Sadly, the results of my quest are, as of this writing, unknown, but, I will, I do swear, keep you informed of any and all progress as I would have never set out on this search (an adventure like none other) if not for you making this post.
Thank you
The President and Founder
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“accompanied by a physical manifestation of it in my facial muscles in the form of what would be commonly referred to as a ‘grimace’” – I’m seeing something along these lines –
I’m right aren’t I?
“Sadly, the results of my quest are, as of this writing, unknown” – Hahahahahaha.
You must take better care of yourself Mr President and Mr Founder!
I’m pleased to hear about the purple couch again, it seems only just under three years since I read the following of your letters in this (very) order;
Know this,you Sandwich Eaters,that there truly is a place, beyond the Dark Woods and the Nearby Orchard where the President and Founder sits in contemplation upon the Purple Couch well cared for and quite safe within his Private Residence.
You are, as ever -( happily, after etc) – , exceedingly (Kipling Cakes) welcome sir.
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I’ve had just one moment like that in my whole life. We never spoke. It was over in 30 seconds or less, with two pairs of eyes saying to each other, “See you on the other side”.
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It sounds like you’ve been there Hariod. I’m glad. Your comment instantly brought to mind a line from a song – “Storm clouds may gather, and stars may collide” – emphasis upon the colliding stars part. (Come What May – Moulin Rouge for those interested). Thank you for your words today H – smiles
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Beautiful chordal structure to the verse of that song, though the chorus to me feels a tad weak in comparison (but then I’m a chord freak). I was just listening to a radio program on R4 this morning devoted entirely to another great love song — The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face — and was appreciating the poignant sparseness of it. Anyway, as for tea, then it’s peppermint during the warm months and lemon & ginger in the cold months. Mind you, I can eat ginger all year round. Isn’t that fascinating? 🐻
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Oh yes, that’s another fine one, a classic in fact. There’s a song, a medley of love songs in Moulin Rouge actually
All in Elephant!! I love the set on that movie.
Ginger tea is good for the digestion too, but I don’t like the taste at all.
esme giving H his ginger and lemon and swigging a mug of hot Vimto upon the Cloud
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He’s got one of those cute little hollows in his chin, hasn’t he? I think that’s what turned Louis C.K. gay when he met him.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/ewan-mcgregor-louis-ck-gay-_n_1327117.html
Hehehe.
Yes, Ewan has the thing, he’s got a real boyish, giddy, fun air to him that matches his looks. And Nicole is quite the stunner in the film too I must say.
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