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No Holiday On Ice!

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Laid-back businessman conducting business over his cell-phone in Geneva, Switzerland (quality final product with music, the previous one I uploaded was a "rough sketch", so to speak).

Every winter in Geneva, the municipality installs a small free open-air skating rink for the enjoyment of the population. When I walked past it, I noticed this businessman in a beautiful and very expensive camel-hair coat who was skating all by himself on the rink - I couldn't resist! I call this a "snapvid" (as in "snapshot"), a word I have recently coined. The music is "Drifting Thoughts" (Epping/Newman) from the Current APM Music Library.
Vierotchka

14 responses // No Holiday On Ice!

  • Oh dear, current's processing has distorted it. I will delete it and try another format - sorry about that.
    Vierotchka
  • Even with the distortion, Vierotchka, it's a lovely meditation on business and beauty, ease and enterprise.
    Thanks. A gentle way to start the day.
    phidippides
  • smiling.
    blueeyedcherokee
  • Totally Surreal !

    ~ Alex
    amzolt
  • Its wonderful,Everywhere, So white,the river has frozen over,not a soul on the ice,Only me skating fast,i'm speeding past trees, leaving little lines in the ice, cutting out little lives in the ice, splitting, splitting sound,silver heals spitting, spitting snow, theres something moving under, Under the ice, moving under ice, through water,Trying to get out of the cold water, (it's me) (it's me) something, Somone help them. (it's me)///////_Kate Bush
    twodee
  • You are such an interesting woman. Like so many things in life, the best often comes when lest expected. It was a wonderful, sensitive, surreal moment under the cloudy Geneva sky. A little sad, also. I am reminded of Thoreau's words about all of us living lives of quiet desperation. Your eye, and your talent, are very special.
    cabotlodge
  • Vierotchka thank you for sending me the link to come back and check out the reedit with the music you selected. I love your choice of music. The only suggestion I have is that perhaps the signal level on the sound is maxed out and perhaps if you take it down a few dB's it would be a lot better. At normal volumes I am hearing a tiny bit of distortion and crackle which indicates that signal might be peaking in spots. Just a suggestion....

    Otherwise, bravo!

    And I agree with caothlodge, you are such an interesting person and I am glad to know you, if anything via this forum.

    Peace
    jubal
  • Very serene. I love this style; "snapvid." It allows you to know the subject without any interaction. Definitely continue doing stuff like this. I recommend trying it in Quebec City if your ever around. Very interesting people there...
    dco
    • dco
    • 8 months ago
  • Other than loving the word snapvid, it was a beautiful video, its something i would never see in my little corner of the world. A very nice sharp contrast to the business men and women i tend to see daily.
    AswegoAsdego
  • I agree with everyone above - thank you.
    Chique
  • Vive Geneve! Merci pour ces jolies images.
    The_Travelling_Twins
  • That was lovely. You don't see many scenes as serene and laid back as that anymore.
    zazzykat
  • lokks good for the soul. Mabe you dont have to work hard to sucseed in business?/
    taffka
  • What? No Jump Cuts or shaky camera angles? :)

    Beautiful. Just beautiful.

    Throw an apple logo on the end and it could sell i-phones (just a thought). Good job.

    -zen
    zenbeer

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