Posted on: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

So sing your song I'm listening out where the stars are glistening

Oh my gosh, this video has me crying. Sometimes the world (the whole entire UNIVERSE) is just completely and undeniably wonderful.


[UPDATE] I think this article in Time Magazine explains it perfectly well: "It’s about transcendence, it’s about experience, it’s about going to a place where otherworldly is a literal term, where you see things that are otherwise utterly impossible to see, where the simple rules of physics don’t even apply the same way. That place is both excruciatingly close — just beyond an onionskin of atmosphere — and unreachably distant. All of Hadfield’s videos capture that idea in one way or another, but the last one, which combines the alien nature of the place he was living at the time with the deeply personal power of a song that has private associations for anyone who’s familiar with it, was a masterstroke. It mainlined meaning directly into our emotional centers. Whether you care about space or not, once you watch Hadfield’s video, you’re very glad that humanity as a whole — and Hadfield in particular — can go there."

The "last one" the author references is Hadfield's cover of Bowie's "Space Oddity."

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