Empires of stone

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Hob H
Hob Nov 11, 2008 21:59:46

I can't remember seeing this posted here, though it may have been, in which case apologies to those who are offended by the concept of the oven baked legume. It's possible that I do vaguely recall a link to the Ancient Skies video, like I say, I can't recall.

But anyway, cop a load of these luvverly rocks:
http://vimeo.com/1521048?pg=embed&sec=1521048

Can anyone name every site in the vid?

G goffik
goffik Nov 13, 2008 15:13:15
Replying to Hob

I thought I recognised the name! This was brought up on some other forum a while back, but I dunno if I've seen it here...

It's great, isn't it?

I'll have to watch it again to see if I recognise many of 'em - a few were obvious, but others more obscure - good game! :)

I believe the chap who filmed it is Grant Wakefield, from (or living in?) Devizes, who seems like a thoroughly nice chap from what little I know!

G x

M moss
moss Nov 13, 2008 15:46:57
Replying to Hob

Hob wrote:
I can't remember seeing this posted here, though it may have been, in which case apologies to those who are offended by the concept of the oven baked legume. It's possible that I do vaguely recall a link to the Ancient Skies video, like I say, I can't recall.

But anyway, cop a load of these luvverly rocks:
http://vimeo.com/1521048?pg=embed&sec=1521048

Can anyone name every site in the vid?

No, but I can name a few, but the video is beautiful - tranquil and calm, the stones enigmatic, which I think is the point of the film.. strangely reminded me of 2001 A Space Odysessy which has a square black monolith floating around in it.... must have been that black image of a capstone taken from underneath..

M Moth
Moth Nov 13, 2008 19:03:09
Replying to Hob

Got bored. It's beautiful but a bit too slow for me. Think I've seen it before & the same happened then! Lol!

Tried dragging it fastforward as slowly as I could & only saw a couple of sites I didn't recognise for sure - looked like Dartmoor. Probly just me but I found the way it didn't seem to follow any logical order & kept returning to Callanish slightly annoying - I'm too anal!

Off the top o' me head & not in order, I saw Callanish 1*, 2 & 3, Scorhill, Bryn Celli Ddu, Din Dryfol, Men-an-Tol, possibly Penrhosfeilw or mebbe Drift Stones, Moel Ty Uchaf, Chun Quoit, Trethevy Quoit, Lundin Links, Lanyon Quoit, Arbor Low, I think Cairnholy, Trefignath, and possibly Pentre Ifan.

*on several seperate occasions

There's also one near the end with trees where it's just too dark for me to have much idea. A few other the camera angle & wide-angleyness make it difficult!!!

love

Moth

R Rhiannon
Rhiannon Nov 13, 2008 22:11:53
Replying to Hob

that was just great, Hob.
The feeling of great eons of time passing while the stones sit there taking it all in. I'm glad they were in circles or they could get lonely on their own. And all that cloud freakiness as well (especially at the beginning when they were building up near the mountains).
I think I'll watch that next time I'm feeling restless.
thanks

C Chris Collyer
Chris Collyer Nov 14, 2008 20:32:03
Replying to Hob

Wow, ta for that link, that was pretty fantastic.

There's another shorter one at

http://www.vimeo.com/1496364

there's some strange camera angles in places but some of the cloud scenes are amazing.

-Chris