Brief Ocean Clips
The management of our personal time has changed over the history of human technology, and especially in the last few decades. Even having artificial light at night to be able to read a book changed how long and when we were mentally active during a day. Obviously the advent of the internet and of portable devices which let us look at images and videos in bed and on the toilet made a huge difference in terms of the perceptions we feed our brains; Not only what we could see at the swipe of a finger over a screen changed, but also how much time we spend on it. We might just take a brief break from work and spend a minute immersed in videos of sharks, tropical sunsets or Antarctic icebergs before going back to the tasks in front of our hands. Very brief excursions in the wonderlands which our planet has to offer are a the Zeitgeist.
An artist has to adapt to the medium which is available to him. The renaissance painters had oily paints, and created great masterworks with these. Imagine what Michelangelo could have done with digital cameras and video and photo processing software on a fast modern computer. Well, of course I don’t think that I am the second coming of Michelangelo, but I am trying my best to take advantage of today’s creative tools and platforms. Hence I present some brief clips shot in the ocean….
Crabs and Squid on Twitter
Take a look at these brief clips which I shared on Twitter: Twitter has a very vibrant community of underwater photographers, videographers and marine biologists, and I see a lot of interesting academic work and underwater imagery there. Twitter is sadly also infamous for its “shit storms”, but strategic muting/blocking of the most passionate shit-stormers, and of their favorite keywords keep the platform civil and interesting for me.
This odd algae-covered blob is a decorator #crab. Filmed in chest-deep water at night, hence the significant surge in the surf zone. #Dauin #Philippines #scuba #underwatervideo #crustacean pic.twitter.com/znA9ITei43
— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) September 11, 2021
Bobtail #squid deciding to hide under the sand. Skilled use of its arms. Bobtail squids are more akin to cuttlefish, not squid. Filmed last night in Zamboanguita, Philippines, 3 meters “deep”. #cephalopod #underwatervideo #scuba #mollusk
Me on @YouTube: https://t.co/9qJNiRxqcQ pic.twitter.com/4mFtpJafk7— Klaus Stiefel (@Pacificklaus) September 9, 2021
Shorts
YouTube recently announced a new format, their Shorts, brief videos at less than a minute, in the upright smart-phone friendly upright format. It’s a good challenge to transport one piece of interesting information in such a short time, with a brief video and a few sentences of narration.
This is my collection of YouTube shorts: Psychedelic waves in ultra-slow motion, fish behavior and sea cucumbers. Sunsets and sunrises in time-lapse, too:
Till Soon, Best Fishes,
Klaus
