To have internet strong enough to be able to rent movies to our laptop is a rare thing for us on this leg of the journey. On top of that, to have a huge HD TV that we can plug into the laptop and watch said movies, is a real treat. The last time we saw a film in the theater was in February and I don’t expect to have the opportunity again for more than a year. The first thing we did, as the narcissists that we are, was to watch some of our own movies which were filmed in HD on an actual big HD screen. Way nicer looking than on our laptop.
The first ocean related movie was the most recent version of Kon-Tiki. I’ll start by admitting that I haven’t read the book by Heyerdahl or seen any other versions of the movie. I thought the movie was beautifully filmed, was interested to find out that Thor’s wife’s name was Liv, and, having made my own less dramatic landfalls, I was impressed by the emotional enormity of that particular landfall to the men aboard.
The second ocean related movie was Chasing Ice. If you want to be deeply disturbed by glacier retreat while at the same time overwhelmed by beautiful pictures of ice formations, this is your film. I’m very glad we had a chance to see it.
THANK YOU MOM! We put your donation to good work.
In other news, I’ve started making a collection of sailing films, mostly freely available online here. It isn’t finished yet and I’ll write more when it is.
The Wizard's Eye videos on Vimeo are well produced and enjoyable as well http://vimeo.com/wizardseye
ReplyDeleteHey Chris, Thanks. Acutally, I had already put one of theirs in my pinterest list (linked at the end of this post). We met Wizard's Eye in Tikehau and talked up Maupiti and Mopelia which they later visited. Love their video of Maupiti. Cheers, and more Liquid Motivation soon ;) Livia
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