{"id":1156,"date":"2009-11-15T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/11\/15\/henrys-long-take\/"},"modified":"2009-11-15T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T16:57:29","slug":"henrys-long-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/11\/15\/henrys-long-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry&#8217;s long take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCOw_OLpwUo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A beautiful piece by improvisational guitarist and deep-sea diver Henry Kaiser, shot somewhere off the coast of Antarctica. (He&#8217;s done similar scenes in a couple of Werner Herzog films, Encounters at the End of the World and the sci-fi docu-fantasy The Wild Blue Yonder.)<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere around the 7-8 minute mark, I was so overcome with emotion I almost spilled out of my body, messing up the keyboard of my laptop and covering it with an organless goo as it tried to squeeze its way through the monitor to swim along with him. On a rainy day, I can imagine myself setting this on infinite-loop and bathing myself in it. The final violin lines glide into the skin of my brain like blades of gold. Where would we be without the Henry Kaisers of this world?<\/p>\n<p>His Antarctica journals can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/about\/henrykaiser.cfm\">found here<\/a>, and more underwater video clips <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kff.org\/about\/videoclips.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Andrew Osborne at <a href=\"http:\/\/totalassaultonculture.wordpress.com\/\">Total Assault on Culture<\/a> for sharing this.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful piece by improvisational guitarist and deep-sea diver Henry Kaiser, shot somewhere off the coast of Antarctica. (He&#8217;s done similar scenes in a couple of Werner Herzog films, Encounters at the End of the World and the sci-fi docu-fantasy The Wild Blue Yonder.) Somewhere around the 7-8 minute mark, I was so overcome with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[692399,689354],"tags":[4446],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-soundscape","category-image_nation","tag-eco-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-iE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1020,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/23\/heraclitean-spirituality\/","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":0},"title":"Heraclitean spirituality","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Patrick Lee Miller's recent posts on Heraclitean spirituality, published on the Immanent Frame blog, make a valuable contribution to theorizing the ethics and spirituality of immanence. 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