A Glorious Dawn

Two video posts in one week! If you’re thinking this is a blogger’s cop-out because he wants to focus his time on NaNoWriMo, you’re absolutely right. But even if that weren’t the case I would feel compelled to share this with you anyway.

If you’re a true geek and don’t exactly consider yourself a spring chicken, then this just might be right up your alley. The concept? Take clips of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, run the audio through Auto-Tune, add a bit of creative video editing, and you’ve got this:

I can’t put my finger on it, but I found this extraordinarily moving. And the more I listened to it, the more I wanted to listen to it. It’s both haunting and hypnotic. And my inner artist/writer/musician is utterly fascinated how seemingly random prose can instantly be turned into poetry.

A still more glorious dawn awaits,
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise.
A morning filled with four hundred billion suns:
The rising of the milky way

Check out the creator of this ingenious little project here.

Okay, now back to NaNoWriMo!

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