across some oceans

Sitting here doing production work, waiting for a phone call back. One thing I do like about blogs are when someone posts a link to something interesting, like Claudine to that old magazine or Saelee reminding us that the first space travellers were animals. So here's a video that I've responded to in recent days. I don't really care for the song but the piece transcends it. It's purportedly real footage taken by a fan of the band who they offered to pay for travel to Nederlands if she'd shoot the experience.

Watch the video here.

Watch an interview with Marta here.

I loved the piece instantly because my days of travelling like that are long over and I miss it. I also like that you can actually watch in the span of a few minutes here someone falling in love with travel, with the wider world, with filmmaking itself (when she leans back on the plane) - and the sort of loopy falling into yourself that occurs on the long haul solo trip. But there have been a lot of discussions about how real this video is which make it worthy of a William Gibson-esque Pattern Recognition plot device. At the music video discussion site antville, right here we fell down the rabbit hole deep going over this one.