Life in a Day Project Mantis
Time to continue my account of my contribution to Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald’s documentary experiment Life in a Day with Project Mantis.
It all started with a ray of sunshine, a digital camera and… the call of the mantis! And of course, all this happened on 24 July 2010. The . . . ‘pretext’ .
CLICK HERE right away to see the High Definition Movie on YouTube, just over 5 minutes. For slow lines I recommend to first download … and then watch it to appreciate that meditative aspect that was so special and unique with what happened. And watch your projections and expectations based on your own personal life story! And remember… it was just a handheld digital photo camera…
Life in a Day Project Mantis
Life in a Day Project Mantis resonnates very much with the futuristic approach the filmmakers have in mind – well, no important movie Ridley Scott ever made doesn’t have it… I was thinking about it when driving down to Cape Point, South Africa, yesterday. A spectacularly beautiful Cape fynbos scenery exploding with early spring colors and bordering on the wide expanse of the Atlantic Ocean around me and my favourite Vangelis playing, including many Bladerunner themes. Pictures arising and interblending with the NOW. The Beauty. The Vision. The Stillness.
Life in a Day in 50 Years
If Life in a Day will be watched in 50 years… the Honey Bee may no longer be around. Its population is dwindling dramatically everywhere… and only few know that besides gifting us with delicious and nutritionally rich honey, the honey bee is the most important pollinator of many crops. This also means that with the extinction of the honey bee much more will go. Perhaps we humans will be gone? Unless we are living on even more genetically manipulated and artificial food than we already do today?
Time to… die?
No.
Life in a Day Meditation
Life in a Day Project Mantis is a meditation for today. For finding Order within Chaos. For Stillness. For Change.
Moving from without to within.
Naturally, the mantis – being a predator and carnivorous – would have annihilated the honey bee with a single bite and devoured it… like a reflex… just as anything we want, the eternal more… Take it and next!
But to my own amazement the result was quite a different one while I was holding my breath to keep the camera still! I won’t tell you – watch it and watch your own preconceived thoughts and, especially, your emotions. But be still. Take these 5 short minutes to just … BEE!
Which brings me back to Krishnamurti and one of his critical questions: “Can the mind observe without memory and time?”
He says yes… but only if the mind is completely still. Stillness is not acquired; it comes naturally when we have order.
Observing without conflict… without disorder… without division – that’s Meditation.
The You Tube LINK again here.
To be continued. . .
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