Tag: Gravity and Grace

  • Gravity and Grace (3) | DIY Heaven

    Or… as I finished the previous post, perhaps we shouldn’t try to escape the gravity of this large mass. Herzog’s film is a satirical critique of the ‘don’t worry about the environment, we’ll all eject to some other system’ view. We can’t. And if we did, it’d be tragic. The earth is what we have.…

  • Gravity and Grace (2) | Leaving the orbit of a large Mass

    In the last post, about Herzog’s new(ish) film The Wild Blue Yonder, I mentioned that much of the footage was shot on a Space Shuttle mission. From the haircuts it looks early ’90s. May be even earlier. That or NASA have some serious fashion issues hanging over. Going into space has always been a huge…

  • Gravity and Grace (1) ¦ Wild Blue Yonder ¦ Living Between Two Oceans

    Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the…