Radiolab’s “Moments”
August 20th, 2009
I found this video, by filmmaker Will Hoffman and presented by the radio program Radiolab, utterly delightful.
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I found this video, by filmmaker Will Hoffman and presented by the radio program Radiolab, utterly delightful.
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August 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
What is a moment? That’s easy. A moment is the fundamental unit of experience.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
While I was watching this just as the balloon floats a way, the sun moved to reflect off a window directly into my eye. A moment.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I absolutely adore RadioLab. Didn’t even know they were doing video…
August 21st, 2009 at 5:14 am
grotesquely kitsch
August 21st, 2009 at 5:48 am
I was mesmerized by this video, but its so hard to describe accurately what is so amazing about it. Certainly it’s how they edit the moments, the perceived/presumed links between successive ones. But there’s more to it and I can’t put my linguistic finger on it…
August 21st, 2009 at 6:28 am
I got a kick out of the frisbee getting stuck on the roof.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:12 pm
A moment is longer than an instant but shorter than a while.
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
Amazing, all those trivial things we experience everyday combined into something beautiful.
August 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 am
So many of these moments I have shared and so many I will never experience. And yet, this film hands those unattainable to me, like a gift, by placing them within the context of the ones that are familiar. Thanks for sharing this, David!
August 30th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Thank you – I thought it was the best visual description of life passing before your eyes without the mucky bit of dying