This is a video of Bonsai artist Bucky Barnes designing, pruning, carving and shaping a Japanese Larch bonsai tree over the course of a year. It’s a nice relaxing watch. Funnily, my girlfriend just got a bonsai as a work gift and we’ve only had it since last Friday and
In coral reef and chill news, this is a 12-hour Youtube video of one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s coral reef exhibits, featuring a variety of tropical fishes doing their thing (swimming). It’s nice and relaxing. I just sort of zoned out watching it for the last half hour. I
This is a video from The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Deep RelaxOcean series of guided relaxation videos, this time focusing on the movement of a deep sea vampire squid. Personally, I did not find it very relaxing. I find everything about the deep sea terrifying, and just thinking about
This is ‘It’s Rain In Games: Part 1’ (so you’re saying we can expect a sequel?!), a 30-minute compilation of rain from 30 different video games, as edited together by possible digital precipitation fetishist Jez Burrows. There’s everything from oldschool 8-bit style pixelated square raindrops to today’s ultra-realistic weather. Personally,
This is a video of woodturner Matt Jordan creating a beautiful wooden coffee mug (with metallic epoxy inlay) from the trunk of a small apple tree. You know, I think I might actually buy the equipment and get into woodturning. It really is something I think I could see myself