if it bleeds, it leads! traffic slows down around an accident ... we all have that urge, some more than others, different forms, some like seeing the destruction of celebrities, the powerful ... we'd all do better keeping down this urge in ourselves.
I loved what you had to say! I thought it was quite insightful, but I think partially wrong. People are not standing there to feel invinsible, the majority arent at least. They are standing there to witness something incredible, or because curiosity moves them to try to imagine what the Japanese are feeling, or to try to reseach the butterfly effect or something towards that end.
Fast talking by reporters and salespersons will always turn the heads and ears and eyes of the inexperienced even if the speaker is spouting pure nonsense. It just makes me sick that they would stoop to take advantage this way. It's called the "Hard Sell" by people in the know.
You are so amazing with words. It makes me feel like I need to pay more attention to what's around me. To try to find the deeper meaning of everything.
Great video and completely summarises what I've been struggling to express in the frustration about how the media focusses on just one crisis with Libya pushed to the middle of a paper as Japan hit, then the roles reversed once more as the UN no-fly zone is confirmed. Through it all, some are so content in the bubble that is my town that they're mostly ignorant of all the crises. I'm still struggling to express my thoughts (as is quite obvious!), but you said this brilliantly. Thank you
this is epic. good job. thank you and i fully agree. however hearing you say it gives me faith others are waking up. keep going. do a vid on chemtrails.. xo VB
You only see one side of the coin and thats why your reasoning is somewhat FLAWED. First California beaches would have NOT been over flooded all the way to the streets and stores and walkway. So its obviously safe to watch the fast current come in from a safe distance. Which makes your "desire to look upon disaster " wrong.
Second I do agree with you about the people sitting down on the sand waiting like douches for it to come kill them. That is obviously wrong.
i really enjoyed your thoughts on this subject. I too felt uneasy when I heard about Japan. What was I supposed to do know? Rush to their aid? Say a prayer and move on? Donate money and that's it?
Life can be confusing but its disasters like this that help bring people togther. It wakes us up. There is more than just living day after day for yourself. It is important for us to care for others and disasters remind me that we should support each other.
I really don't see your point about how it's insensitive to pay attention to disasters. There are constantly horrible things going on in the world. You can't spend your time empathizing with everyone who suffers. Pay some attention, maybe make a donation to a relief fund and get on with your life.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi It felt insensitive to rush to the beach and watch waves, to see the difference as spectacle, to be waiting for some change to happen in the midst of the destruction. I absolutely don't see it as insensitive to pay attention to disasters.
I could see how it might be insensitive to go out and poke the dead bodies that wash up on the shore, but to watch the change in waves?.. Why did that make you feel insensitive? I doubt any of the victims would see it that way (I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, I just don't get it). I would argue that it actually made you more sensitive to their suffering since it made it into something more real than just a tragic news story on T.V. for you.
i dont see a point in this particular video, u write a title "tsunami from santa monica" so i expect some real video of hitting water instead ur lying on the beach with friend. nice thoughts though, but title is misleading. have nice day
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Crises such as this do remind us that we are all inferior in the face of Mother Nature, and that we should begin to view our own seeming troubles with a broader view that accounts for the great, mysterious interconnectedness of all people and things inhabiting this world.
Amazing video, I absolutlely loved your narration and how you descried everything. I live in San Diego, and my father works right on the beach. When he got home I asked him if the water was any different, and he said no, except for afrer 3/4 the waves got bigger and the currents were tossing the ships around. Amazing how we really are connected although sometimes it may not feel like it. It's a reminder that although our boreders separate us, we still are all human.
ohhh it took me a minute to remember that the title is day/month/year; why does America have to use a month/day/year format? it just doesnt seem logical
@NickPwnsUTube Your comment clearly demonstrates prejudice. If you weren't prejudiced, you would have simply stated "Ignorant person"...The need to toss 'American' into the statement shows that you hold preconceived notions of American inferiority, and such notions are inappropriate for any person to hold in the modern age. Grow up.
Also, FANTASTIC VIDEO, ROSIANNA!! Very pensive! (:
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
Human beings like to think they're outside nature, that we're exempt from it's laws and that with out technology and intelligence we can survive where other species would fail. Occasionally we get rather stark reminders that this isn't true.
@missxrojas@cynthiarocks9 If you go to captiontube dot appspot dot com, you can transcribe the video into Spanish and then it would give you a captions file that you can send to Rosi and she could put this in as a CC (just as they do with Vlogbrothers videos) so that it would be an option at the bottom of the player. Just a suggestion!
Once again, I find myself awestruck by your ability to articulate so well the complex thoughts and emotions conjured by this type of experience. Of being outside something so horrible and being unable to draw your attention elsewhere.
I've been trying to get some work done all day, as I have a deadline coming up and haven't felt inspired enough to actually do any work, and I keep going back online and checking my newsfeeds, watching youtube videos about Japan, etc, etc, etc.
I guess I don't deal very well with disasters, ever since I was 11 when I watched live as the second plane crashed into the building in New York disasters really get at me. Like yourself I had been glued to the television all day - finding it hard to comprehend the unimaginable, and so distant loss and suffering. It must have been very moving to witness the tsunami as it reached Cali - I don't see that as sordid, but rather it is like paying homage to those who have died, or are still dying.
It's an odd feeling when you find yourself a spectator to events that are drastically destroying/changing peoples lives. It is difficult to put these feelings into words but you have done an amazing job summing it up in this video. Thank you.
Very thought provoking... favorited. The strange thing about SoCal is that we also have natural disasters, such as wild fires and the ever-present threat of "The Big One" (earthquake) that is bound to happen at some point within a hundred years... we're not as removed as we think. Beauty & disaster are both very real components of our world- one does not cancel out the other- and, in order to be truthful, we must open our eyes to both.
I have lived in So Cal my entire life. That said, this idea that we live in a bubble is something I have only recently become aware of. For me, California and LA in particular represents an escape we as humans desperately crave. We are the home of motion pictures. While I know my profile of CA is very limiting, I cant help but ask myself why I sat in my room watching Buffy all day. Why is the fear of water washing away what I love so over powering, I'd rather dive into a different reality?
I know! this morning my brothers were playing with there friends in the backyard and i was painting my toes and i was sitting there thinking "how could something so terrible happen on the other side of the world on such a warm sunny day like this?"
Very poignant, but also full of truth. That *is* one of the reasons LA and other warm temperature climates make me uneasy. It's part of the reason I decided not to stay in Orlando so many years ago. It's definitely a bubble and sometimes people inside the bubble will do anything to stop preserve its structure.
Los Angeles is heaven, but I was thinking today how happy I am not to live there anymore, where without TV or internet I could be unaware of blizzards, and also because it may end up under water someday (which might be an over-dramatic thought). Though truthfully I would probably run towards the water, too, because of curiosity and excitement. I just wish I could run further across the water to Japan and help them all, but we have to do what we can where we are.
Hey Rossiana, I was just about to ask you for a big favor. Well, this is an idea I just had:
I'm from México, and very concerned about this recent disaster, I was hoping you could let me translate this video to spanish language. I mean... borrow the video, but record the sound in spanish. Let me now if that's ok with you, I know a lot of people would appreciate the sharing of this info. =)-
@cynthiarocks9 I'm really sorry but because of copyright and things I can't let you actually use the footage! But a solution might be to translate the video in a word document or something and then just send the video with instructions to turn the volume down and read the document instead! Sorry, I know that's a lesser solution but I do need to look after my copyright :( Best of luck with it!
I think what you speak of about the uneasiness about SoCal is why I want to live in a true city (with all its grime) so much. I think that, living in suburbia, or in a wealthy area of a city, you do tend to - if only subconsciously - ignore that injustice is going on in the world, even in other parts of your town. Living in the middle of a city I feel motivates you even more to pursue ways to help mitigate injustice.
Natural disasters like this is Earth's reminder that it can take us out at any moment. We should be reminded that we need to come together take care of the planet...
not come together to harvest it until both we and nature are all gone.
I love what you say at the end of how we need to break through our little bubbles of safety and watching disaster from afar and try and help how we can, it really makes me want to help.
if it bleeds, it leads! traffic slows down around an accident ... we all have that urge, some more than others, different forms, some like seeing the destruction of celebrities, the powerful ... we'd all do better keeping down this urge in ourselves.
mariothepookster 5 months ago
I loved what you had to say! I thought it was quite insightful, but I think partially wrong. People are not standing there to feel invinsible, the majority arent at least. They are standing there to witness something incredible, or because curiosity moves them to try to imagine what the Japanese are feeling, or to try to reseach the butterfly effect or something towards that end.
Thanks for making this video.
Zayin1993 7 months ago
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Don't worry California, you will get yours
MrJPort10 8 months ago
i wanna go to the beach now thumps up if you agree
MisterBeast24 9 months ago
Fast talking by reporters and salespersons will always turn the heads and ears and eyes of the inexperienced even if the speaker is spouting pure nonsense. It just makes me sick that they would stoop to take advantage this way. It's called the "Hard Sell" by people in the know.
badback22 10 months ago
you are amazing.
Katrina981993 11 months ago
You are so amazing with words. It makes me feel like I need to pay more attention to what's around me. To try to find the deeper meaning of everything.
spacexplorersam 11 months ago
Great video and completely summarises what I've been struggling to express in the frustration about how the media focusses on just one crisis with Libya pushed to the middle of a paper as Japan hit, then the roles reversed once more as the UN no-fly zone is confirmed. Through it all, some are so content in the bubble that is my town that they're mostly ignorant of all the crises. I'm still struggling to express my thoughts (as is quite obvious!), but you said this brilliantly. Thank you
jondevlog 11 months ago
this is epic. good job. thank you and i fully agree. however hearing you say it gives me faith others are waking up. keep going. do a vid on chemtrails.. xo VB
veganbombshell 11 months ago
You only see one side of the coin and thats why your reasoning is somewhat FLAWED. First California beaches would have NOT been over flooded all the way to the streets and stores and walkway. So its obviously safe to watch the fast current come in from a safe distance. Which makes your "desire to look upon disaster " wrong.
Second I do agree with you about the people sitting down on the sand waiting like douches for it to come kill them. That is obviously wrong.
ssmimess 11 months ago
Lovely video, Rosianna. Probably my favorite that you've done.
TheWinterOne 11 months ago
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randyrichyrich 11 months ago
Prevailing winds from japan could arrive on america west coast in 4 days.
got your iodine pills?
TheWomblemaster 11 months ago
what an annoying limey accent
savatsthedouche 11 months ago
wow this is such a great video!
:)
i really enjoyed your thoughts on this subject. I too felt uneasy when I heard about Japan. What was I supposed to do know? Rush to their aid? Say a prayer and move on? Donate money and that's it?
Life can be confusing but its disasters like this that help bring people togther. It wakes us up. There is more than just living day after day for yourself. It is important for us to care for others and disasters remind me that we should support each other.
BSmeansBlueSalad 11 months ago
I really don't see your point about how it's insensitive to pay attention to disasters. There are constantly horrible things going on in the world. You can't spend your time empathizing with everyone who suffers. Pay some attention, maybe make a donation to a relief fund and get on with your life.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 11 months ago 3
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi It felt insensitive to rush to the beach and watch waves, to see the difference as spectacle, to be waiting for some change to happen in the midst of the destruction. I absolutely don't see it as insensitive to pay attention to disasters.
missxrojas 11 months ago 5
@missxrojas
I could see how it might be insensitive to go out and poke the dead bodies that wash up on the shore, but to watch the change in waves?.. Why did that make you feel insensitive? I doubt any of the victims would see it that way (I'm not trying to tell you how to feel, I just don't get it). I would argue that it actually made you more sensitive to their suffering since it made it into something more real than just a tragic news story on T.V. for you.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 11 months ago
i dont see a point in this particular video, u write a title "tsunami from santa monica" so i expect some real video of hitting water instead ur lying on the beach with friend. nice thoughts though, but title is misleading. have nice day
marcelino02 11 months ago
I love this.
And I love how similar this is to John's beautiful "Thoughts from Places" videos.
bassrocks9 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Crises such as this do remind us that we are all inferior in the face of Mother Nature, and that we should begin to view our own seeming troubles with a broader view that accounts for the great, mysterious interconnectedness of all people and things inhabiting this world.
chunkymonky218 11 months ago
Amazing video, I absolutlely loved your narration and how you descried everything. I live in San Diego, and my father works right on the beach. When he got home I asked him if the water was any different, and he said no, except for afrer 3/4 the waves got bigger and the currents were tossing the ships around. Amazing how we really are connected although sometimes it may not feel like it. It's a reminder that although our boreders separate us, we still are all human.
Marauder131 11 months ago
stop killing whales and dolphins
tony711978 11 months ago
Ur getting much better at these 'Thoughts from places' like videos
benpat100 11 months ago
ohhh it took me a minute to remember that the title is day/month/year; why does America have to use a month/day/year format? it just doesnt seem logical
Dleger13 11 months ago
Thank-you for your video.
tophergrallison 11 months ago
Wonderful video and narration!
jasonmundaymusic 11 months ago
i didnt really like the feel of this video, was too much like you were just reading out a school essay to the class. but hey ho
OllyMillMill 11 months ago
DFTBA
zophi31 11 months ago
DFTBA
zophi31 11 months ago
really really great video
smilenose 11 months ago
it hasent been 11/3/11 yet
TheCirea 11 months ago
@TheCirea Ignorant American... The rest of the world has a day/month/year format. You just like being awkward....
NickPwnsUTube 11 months ago
@NickPwnsUTube Your comment clearly demonstrates prejudice. If you weren't prejudiced, you would have simply stated "Ignorant person"...The need to toss 'American' into the statement shows that you hold preconceived notions of American inferiority, and such notions are inappropriate for any person to hold in the modern age. Grow up.
Also, FANTASTIC VIDEO, ROSIANNA!! Very pensive! (:
PavoBritannia 11 months ago
very well said. Beautiful video.
This reminds me of a vlogbrother's "Thoughts from Places" video in its structure. Were you using that as a model?
ShalomDove 11 months ago 2
Wow. This video made me think..
freaklyktaz 11 months ago
If you are in Canada the Canadian redcross has set up a special fund for helping as well. You can text ASIA to 30333 to give $5.
Duessa2000 11 months ago
since when did you move to the states?
morgzsta 11 months ago
@morgzsta I'm studying abroad there and have been since August last year!
missxrojas 11 months ago
Lol I seen that blue abc new van today. On the freeway. In Santa monica
chuckmarks2010 11 months ago
Lol I seen that blue. Van.
chuckmarks2010 11 months ago
You are the first Youtuber (I'm subscribed to) that talks about this. Good video Miss X
DGC019 11 months ago
How beautiful...
tristansmells 11 months ago
Dont forget california is in the ring of fire. It is also sitting on a fault and could be hit at anytime itself. Non of us are immune to tragedy.
TheWomblemaster 11 months ago
oh your so deep
paulgstar 11 months ago
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
Human beings like to think they're outside nature, that we're exempt from it's laws and that with out technology and intelligence we can survive where other species would fail. Occasionally we get rather stark reminders that this isn't true.
leapoffaith20 11 months ago
Rosianna, Amazing video.
You should consider journalism again :)
Jools86 11 months ago
it sounds like you're really jinxing yourself and California
LeClassics 11 months ago
@LeClassics Oh nooooo don't say that! Most of my good friends live there!
missxrojas 11 months ago
@LeClassics For sure she's jinxed a nomination as a good housekeeper. Who made that mess at :04-:09 ??
KristaOrangutan 10 months ago
You are a lovely person <3 please stay lovely?
Emigmatiic 11 months ago
Wait a minute.. You're in California now? You do get around, wow.
EdEditz 11 months ago
@missxrojas @cynthiarocks9 If you go to captiontube dot appspot dot com, you can transcribe the video into Spanish and then it would give you a captions file that you can send to Rosi and she could put this in as a CC (just as they do with Vlogbrothers videos) so that it would be an option at the bottom of the player. Just a suggestion!
helloimcalledryan 11 months ago
The things you do with words.. <3
firnantok 11 months ago
Great message. This video kinda reminded me of "thoughts from places"
susanne1310 11 months ago
but how do we break those bubbles?
hellotwat 11 months ago
Once again, I find myself awestruck by your ability to articulate so well the complex thoughts and emotions conjured by this type of experience. Of being outside something so horrible and being unable to draw your attention elsewhere.
I've been trying to get some work done all day, as I have a deadline coming up and haven't felt inspired enough to actually do any work, and I keep going back online and checking my newsfeeds, watching youtube videos about Japan, etc, etc, etc.
m4rcus4ur31ius 11 months ago 2
I guess I don't deal very well with disasters, ever since I was 11 when I watched live as the second plane crashed into the building in New York disasters really get at me. Like yourself I had been glued to the television all day - finding it hard to comprehend the unimaginable, and so distant loss and suffering. It must have been very moving to witness the tsunami as it reached Cali - I don't see that as sordid, but rather it is like paying homage to those who have died, or are still dying.
mvarnham 11 months ago
It's an odd feeling when you find yourself a spectator to events that are drastically destroying/changing peoples lives. It is difficult to put these feelings into words but you have done an amazing job summing it up in this video. Thank you.
DiscoSux87 11 months ago
Wow Rosi, this video was wonderful. Such an inspired look at what happened/is happening.
italktosnakes 11 months ago
This is a fantastic video.
thatzak 11 months ago
Very thought provoking... favorited. The strange thing about SoCal is that we also have natural disasters, such as wild fires and the ever-present threat of "The Big One" (earthquake) that is bound to happen at some point within a hundred years... we're not as removed as we think. Beauty & disaster are both very real components of our world- one does not cancel out the other- and, in order to be truthful, we must open our eyes to both.
My heart goes out to Japan
rosesofsunshine3 11 months ago
I have lived in So Cal my entire life. That said, this idea that we live in a bubble is something I have only recently become aware of. For me, California and LA in particular represents an escape we as humans desperately crave. We are the home of motion pictures. While I know my profile of CA is very limiting, I cant help but ask myself why I sat in my room watching Buffy all day. Why is the fear of water washing away what I love so over powering, I'd rather dive into a different reality?
JustJAINE 11 months ago
I know! this morning my brothers were playing with there friends in the backyard and i was painting my toes and i was sitting there thinking "how could something so terrible happen on the other side of the world on such a warm sunny day like this?"
evolvingboard 11 months ago
Very poignant, but also full of truth. That *is* one of the reasons LA and other warm temperature climates make me uneasy. It's part of the reason I decided not to stay in Orlando so many years ago. It's definitely a bubble and sometimes people inside the bubble will do anything to stop preserve its structure.
soozfive 11 months ago
lovely, insightful, poignant
Los Angeles is heaven, but I was thinking today how happy I am not to live there anymore, where without TV or internet I could be unaware of blizzards, and also because it may end up under water someday (which might be an over-dramatic thought). Though truthfully I would probably run towards the water, too, because of curiosity and excitement. I just wish I could run further across the water to Japan and help them all, but we have to do what we can where we are.
Starlysh 11 months ago
Hey Rossiana, I was just about to ask you for a big favor. Well, this is an idea I just had:
I'm from México, and very concerned about this recent disaster, I was hoping you could let me translate this video to spanish language. I mean... borrow the video, but record the sound in spanish. Let me now if that's ok with you, I know a lot of people would appreciate the sharing of this info. =)-
cynthiarocks9 11 months ago 4
@cynthiarocks9 I'm really sorry but because of copyright and things I can't let you actually use the footage! But a solution might be to translate the video in a word document or something and then just send the video with instructions to turn the volume down and read the document instead! Sorry, I know that's a lesser solution but I do need to look after my copyright :( Best of luck with it!
missxrojas 11 months ago 2
@missxrojas Or how about you let @cynthiarocks9 make subtitle captions for the video which she could send to you?
HamishIanFinlay 11 months ago 23
@HamishIanFinlay Yeah that's totally okay if you want to do that, @cynthiarocks9!
missxrojas 11 months ago
Very thoughts from places-esque. Echoing some of the things that I have not been able to keep off my mind today.
Celtise 11 months ago
I think what you speak of about the uneasiness about SoCal is why I want to live in a true city (with all its grime) so much. I think that, living in suburbia, or in a wealthy area of a city, you do tend to - if only subconsciously - ignore that injustice is going on in the world, even in other parts of your town. Living in the middle of a city I feel motivates you even more to pursue ways to help mitigate injustice.
cphayes2 11 months ago
your thoughtful insight always amazes me. Thank you for sharing your voice and your words.
(Especially the word simultaneity, such a good word!)
Bananarama842 11 months ago
thank you for your insight and for sharing your experience, Rosianna.
jazzelineknox 11 months ago
Natural disasters like this is Earth's reminder that it can take us out at any moment. We should be reminded that we need to come together take care of the planet...
not come together to harvest it until both we and nature are all gone.
surfjacobson1 11 months ago
I love what you say at the end of how we need to break through our little bubbles of safety and watching disaster from afar and try and help how we can, it really makes me want to help.
helliop 11 months ago
I loved this video! It was a thoughts from places combined with information about what's going on in the world. I really enjoy your videos.
ktgreeeno 11 months ago 37
@ktgreeeno yeah, it really reminded me of one of john's thoughts from places
asofaihp 11 months ago
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PureBloodPrisoner 11 months ago