The Drift

[xponen]

Believe it or not... the dawn of airplane to the dawn of human spaceflight JUST TOOK 26 years! Amazingly the person who was born in days of first practical airplane: saw everything from the first WW1 airplane, to the first jet fighter, and finally to Saturn V rocket and supersonics. -When they died.. they had seen the most amazing human achievement...

[squizzardrum]

I miss you Professor Sears!

[Sten2012]

thats not Drift. /watch?v=h9PNYTZurKY That is DRIFT!

[sarahmsmith78704]

besides brilliant and epic -- I can't find any words to describe how wonderful this film is. 

[triangledamncool]

I think this has something to do with communism, being represented as 'the drift', an ideal world that would leave people in a comatose state drifting through the years in 'isolated communities'. Communism was a dream, a dream that corrupted its believers much like how 'drifters' followed the sound and dissapeared. &even if 'the song was contained, the drift was free'.

[Talmore]

epic use of still photos and motion graphics!

well done!

[gkram212]

brillliant !

[lizardkingsajrs]

still love this film, referencing it in a university report!

[paulbenney]

Very cool

[edvolve]

I am very happy at this moving picture show.

[misserinchase]

So many spiritual analogies. Love this.

[alankarmisra]

Beautiful. I love the texture of the entire film. Very nicely done. The voice over is phenomenal too. Really helps the story.

[M0URNlNGSTAR]

"The sounds of silence", as to forget the world and drift away, the quiet calm as is otherwise, the world is only as perceived, so clarified immediately when thoughts cease and the world around you is forgotten. So the drifters will always have something that those in control cannot have, and within that very silence, the artists and poets of the world can, and do thrive, because they live the drift.

Well that's my take on it. Very inspiring film. I hope there's many more to come.

[3689822]

It was space fever.

Forget new cars, second kids, colour televisions, the perfect barbecue and expensive vacations. Space missions were the new high for the country. By now we have an orbits on the Earth and landings on the Moon, but we wanted more. We didn’t know anything about real fever down here.

[alphade10]

I always thought the idea of a metaphor was a funny little thing. Chances are, if you're too stupid to understand the metaphor, you're the target audience of the creator and therefore the creator has completely failed in their attempt to make you think.

[SamJamRic]

That was amazing :'0

[MrJimbodian]

I like most soups

[GloopyCowMedia]

Hmm, reminds me of the Sirens in Greek Mythology...

[Omieboi09]

Bloody brilliant!

Such an amazing meaning to this video, and yes if you think about it we are all victims of the drift, as we lose ourselves in things we love, but we are also the non-drifters, when your walking along the path, where do you look? To the skies, or to the ground? And for everyone posting stupid comments like "sound doesn't travel in space" it's a metaphoric sound, and even if it isn't it could be sound buried deep within the humans psyche, only released when heard or in solitude.

[joker45454545]

is this a real sound or a medaphor

[GeekStop1]

amazing. perhaps this represents how we get lost in our own goals, how we become obsessed with our own achievements.

Also, you've been shown this awesome story, amazing meaning and stuff, and all u can say is 'sound can't travel in space' jesus christ. go tell that to George Lucas.

[oneeyedboxer]

i like cats

[TheWhyNotSayYes]

@oneeyedboxer

[occoldjosh]

sound cant travel in space

[unrenderedmedia]

This film is soooo chilling

[slinky330]

I Want Revenge! bit . ly/jerku

[james12335]

you just sound like u are mumbling

[zynwn]

loosing yourself to the song that sounds like emptyness..

[AnomalousVikingNinja]

its about hippies.

[Brujo2595]

that is the most annoying voice i have ever hear

[awesomejoe12]

Every once in a while you come along a video that has the power to truly alter humanity's way of thinking, for good or for bad. There was stupid cat videos, pants on the ground, all those things that did nothing. This video affected me in a way no other has. Well done, once again.

[xXweepingheartXx]

is this real a song from space known as the drift? it is so . . . interesting. it just makkes me love outerspace even more, and makkes me more interested.

[vicnedel02]

The madness of space.

This is so real.

[AndrewMay100]

brilliant emotive film making

[AquelMaje]

This is cool, there should be a drug named the drift..

[vextolic]

Wow I got a weird feeling from just watching this

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

On the whole this is a pretty awesome concept. If you fix up some of the scientific details this could be turned into a really awesome full length movie. 

[bachematico]

Only drifters can understand what the drift is all about, by definition. The others will be lost in details.

Great Video.

[SupaKawaiiii]

thats creepy! is this real?????

[xHIDING]

emptiness IS a song. it hypnotises you.

[aledwynevans]

"We stay away from the dreams that were beyond our reach." There's a lesson in there.

[florida443]

Weird

[63NY1]

i remember reading a similar scifi story... an alien radio transmission was picked up. Sounded like music. It became part of human culture... modified in songs. The transmission lasted years, then suddenly stopped. Now humans send their modified version of the song into space as a memorial...

[ThePeachTree]

The amazing power of this film's message is ironically highlighted by youtube commenters saying stupid stuff like "sound can't travel in space". we are truly looking down at the ground. feel the drift, people.

[votejamie08]

@ThePeachTree Dude, just feel the drift. Don't harsh this guy's mellow.

[ThePeachTree]

@votejamie08 which guy would that be? I was talking generally about the masses of commenters who completely fail to see the metaphors being used here. The irony is in being so focused on scrutiny and intellectualisation that they literalise the movie and don't look beyond it to see what The Drift is, even to the point of highlighting the movie's message. "We were told to look away from The Drifters. We stopped looking up at the sky. We stayed away from dreams that were beyond our reach."

[votejamie08]

@ThePeachTree oh this guy meaning you, i just really liked your wording of 'feel the drift, people.'

[ThePeachTree]

@votejamie08 oh cool. Bit of confusion there, sorry.

[MattCadillac]

Wasn't it Galileo who claimed to hear "the music of the spheres" or the music of the planets or something?

[xxBoogiepunkxx]

@MattCadillac I think that was Pythagoras.

[MattCadillac]

@xxBoogiepunkxx I'm not sure, I know Pythagoras created the Pythagorean theorum. But I think it was an astronomer who did. Who was it that the vatican persecuted, and just recently gave a formal apology?

[PaulinjshKreisais]

@MattCadillac

Dude, Pythagoras comes from Greece ~ 500 BC. So Vatican?? wtf :D

[MattCadillac]

@PaulinjshKreisais Which is why I think it was the astronomer Galileo.

[pob2221]

i guess the travelling sound means: a travelling song. That is to say: a message. However defined or transported. This story is probably meant to be a metaphor on a "collective awareness/conciousness" of people. Maybe the author explains the wish to be connected to something bigger than the individual needs and thoughts of everyone. So I come to the conclusion, that as a parable it has a very powerful impact on the the listener in its calm and thoughtful way of describing the plot.

[aldar98]

the true and root definition of bewildered is exactly how I feel about the term "drifted for years". However, many do not like this and demonized the term.

[mattcaldar]

It's great every time I see this vid.

[c2monke]

An okay sci-fi type one.

However 2 things.

1. Sound doesn't travel in space like previously mentioned.

2. Satellites travel around an object, if they were satellites they wouldn't be in deep space exploring.

[DrifterErik]

how was this amazing in any way? you people are fucken retarded, this made no sense, is it even credible? this is why i'm glad the U.S. isn't ran by people like you who believe what you hear...sound doesn't travel is space u morons, go take some physics classes and find out y cuz i'm not gonna tell u idiots

[koko56]

@DrifterErik what about sound not travelling in space? :/

[nachobetsim]

@DrifterErik

Relax man, it is a metaphor... sound does not travel in space but waves do, so it would be easyto transform in to sound anyways... How do you think they communicated with NASA ? Anyways you are going in the wrong direction of the purpose from this short ;)

[Simonhakken]

Repost, but still one of the best FutureShorts ever.

[badtimesallthetime]

Wow... That was just amazing...

[JoeCubicle]

Very cool, leaves a lot to the imagination.

[wurstwasser72]

reminds me of the movie The Astronaut's Wife.

[BerlinBunker1]

 Outstanding.

[therealKINDLE]

Some wonderful Photos of Woodstock

[Fuzzy192006]

nice

[tobyjug83]

mp3 download link??

[islandis65]

Something like an oppressive 2001 Space Odyssey atmosphere.

[barryperrins]

Brilliant.

[livingsocks]

I could swear I saw this before, was it uploaded on futureshorts already?

[indigonegative]

@livingsocks It's much like the one on switchboard operators.

[jopalolive]

the posts seem to reflect the poster rather than the vid

Homer's Odyssey set in space

[AndieDree]

@De4sher Ok I am not some 14 year old, and I thought this story was extremely good, and very intriguing. Have you ever thought that it might have some deeper meaning behind it? Near the end when he says we focused on our manicured lawns and left our dreams behind, don't you think it may be bringing out the message that to wrapped up in ourselves now rather than pushing our boundaries once more?

It also could be about the 60's how hippies were avoided, and society was told to stick the norms.

[TehFipFlops]

so depressing....

[mycompasstv]

great still animation...well done.

[OriginallyInspired]

cool

[davdd1032]

intriguing to the last

[gostumpie]

interesting

[De4sher]

Furthermore, have you ever thought that perhaps stories need to make at least some sense. You can't just go puking out epic 3 minute stories. it doesn't work like that.

The only people it does work like that with are 14year olds.

Man, the guy reading the script is awesome, but the story itself is beyond stupidity. Seriously, try to make better stories, and don't just adapt 14th century ones and put astronauts in them.

Thumbs down.

Use some brains too, not just hearts. hearts are stupid.

[rhalfik]

@De4sher I know they are, but I don't care.

[De4sher]

@rhalfik

well each with their own tastes, it's cool anyway.

for me, my brain got syphilis from watching this. everything's cool, except for the story

[De4sher]

i don't remember why i subscribed to this, but the latest videos are totally crap.

who the fuck cares about astronauts and their sweet fucking songs? this isn't sparta people, it's reality!

get a fucking grip!

[Skeluz]

Very very good.

[badont]

Говно редкостное. Ниачом

[zeffii]

where have i seen this before?

[dayph]

@zeffii I think you have got the same in your head as I do. Its the same story theme as in "Life of a Dog" which you can watch at Future Shorts' too. I liked The Drift but I got eventualy disappointed for the reason I mentioned. 

[theeyeclops]

@zeffii on futureshorts, probably. they reposted it for some reason.

[louis12346]

friggin looser drifters - we hate you - stay lost

[subh1]

artistic rendition of Obama's NASA budget cuts on Mars missions

[hmanham]

somebody needs to remix this into a sweet techno beat

[adamphudson]

Not that great compared to other "Future Shorts"… Its visually captivating - a look into the atmosphere of America during the late 60s early 70s including great behind the scenes NASA shots, but I found the plot uninteresting… I was continually waiting for the comedy to drop: It would have been better if the song the explorers "drifted" to was parody: thrown in some "Magic Carpet Ride" during the concert picture and fade out with a great song. Yeah, generally unimpressed.

[ytmachx]

@adamphudson It wasn't a "plot". It was a statement of fact. The "drift" is simply the drift of the country away from greatness to mediocrity. The "song", the destructive force, is "self" and the seeking of one's own pleasure. The explanation that it "came from space" is just denial,(symptomatic of the condition), that it came from within and that we were doing such "great things" just before the "song" arrived.

[adamphudson]

@ytmachx That's a creative interpretation… I'm down. I especially like how the 'song' is an externalization of the 'self' or 'selfish' (impoverished condition) of post-war America's struggle with mediocrity. After we fight and win a global war what else is there to do but go to outer space but after that... its just down hill… nothings interesting anymore including ourselves (our culture). 

[adamphudson]

And to continue the creativity: the self - if we are to allow Freud to speak - is in part repressed consciousness… so what if the 'drift' is just another way for contemporary 'WASP' culture to subconsciously put on the breaks as it comes to awareness that all its success, its technology and superiority is build on global hegemonic rule - the extraction of resources from global periphery's into concentrated and ever complex arrangements in the center.

[adamphudson]

At once the drift signals a decent away from blind progress and an assent of global sensitivity to inequality and justice. Then its not mediocrity that's being witnessed its the power of the global south's psychic pressure and physical presence to make the technological centers accountable for their affluence…

[sivart771]

Uhh, hasn't FutureShorts posted this before?

watch?v=21L6EeaGVAk

whoops?

[ramizzlydizzly]

i think i was drifting throughout that whole thing, the future shorts jingle at the end kinda snapped me out of it

[YouLoveBeef]

I wanna listen to the tune O-O

[DavidEdwardSchnell]

PSYCHE!

[TheTsastini]

space madness!

[ASKaPHYSICIST]

I don't get it.

[NimbusFilms]

This is some scary shit. And I love it.

[asmorrey1]

Part of me really really want's to keep playing the video to hear the song. haha i think i may have the drift. Loved this video when i saw it first and it's still mesmerising ;)

[pdhwiayf]

very very clever

[olive1913]

absolute silence is the greatest thing you will hear in life, i heard it once when i lost consciuoness under high pressure after diving too deep. it was sort of totally wonderful

[CarlosCF]

@olive1913 Just a technical question: If you lose consciousness how can you possibly hear something, or even remember it?

[smeagle9999]

rofl

[wooooooo77]

Sound can't travel in space so how do the astronauts hear the drift?

[hang1iderswing]

@wooooooo77 Maybe some kind of radio waves, which can cause sounds when they hit the sides of the craft? Or solar winds?

[madeye0]

@wooooooo77 Excellent observation sir. This video isn't logical at all. But sadly only brilliant people like you can see it.

[Pawndurr]

@wooooooo77 Actually, sound can travel in a vacuum, but since there are no molecules for the sound energy to vibrate, we cannot perceive the sound. If the mechanical energy were to find it's way into the ship, the sound would indeed be perceivable due to the pressurized environment in the ship.

[squishyhobo]

@Pawndurr Um, sorry, incorrect...sound waves travel in the same way as energy travels in the popular desk toy "Newtons Cradle", if there are no more metal balls to pass on the energy, or no more molecules to pass on the sound wave, then all you end up with is a few molecules flying out into the void of open space which no longer have the ability to carry structured or perceivable sound waves,

radio waves and other waves only travel because they are light waves, and not mechanical like sound

[Pawndurr]

@squishyhobo Hmmm it appears that i have been "schooled". LOL

[eelexa]

@wooooooo77 There's oxygen in the ship and in their suits. It's not a literal song, it's something they just heard all the time as a result of isolation. It gave rise to rock.

[wooooooo77]

@eelexa I understand what you mean but the video doesn't make sense. Satelites don't feel isolation so they can't "find" the noise. And if the noise is made up by the astronaut's consciousness it can't be recorded.

[eelexa]

@wooooooo77 I wasn't saying satellites feel isolation. The humming of the machinery in the shuttle/ship probably haunted the astronauts. Sort of like shell-shock.

[wooooooo77]

@eelexa That seems plausible :)

[hippocampuszosterae]

@wooooooo77 But radio waves can travel in space and their instruments would thus pick up the song.

[markaz2kk]

@wooooooo77 its a humm that is herd in space. when u have the right gear to use ur brain and look into it before blabbering ur head off!. when u goto a certain point on a frequency its a weird humm. look it up this did happen and people did die of this.. its highly classified and no one will open it up. it was not shown on tv nor the apollo's missions.. orbital space is a magnetic field. put any metals in the way it works like a speaker.. (thats how they could hear it) duh!

[markaz2kk]

@wooooooo77 sound can travel through space. u got to use a different method to get it... look it up dumbass!

[FourthDimensionAnim]

@wooooooo77 It was a radio transmission

[glassminimalist]

@wooooooo77 Radio waves. Their equipment picked it up, either by tuning in or by picking up on a residual signal.

[wooooooo77]

@glassminimalist Yes, that's probably it.

[livingsocks]

@wooooooo77 irrelevant.

[ienthekorean]

@wooooooo77 magic

[markaz2kk]

@wooooooo77 go back to the what i said fruit cake!

[markaz2kk]

@wooooooo77 magnet vibrations like a radio wooootanwank! helmets were not a 100 percent insulated

[madeye0]

Thank god other people can see it too. I thought I'm the only one. Apocalypse will be gentle and painless, we'll just drift away..

[audadvnc]

Audio history buffs: Note the WW2 era German Magnetophon recorder at 6:46 .

[mrfilanges]

I really enjoyed this video when FutureShorts first posted it around a year ago...

[Twist9]

This is a duplicate upload of an earlier futureshorts film: /watch?v=21L6EeaGVAk

Why the duplicate Futureshorts? Did Samsung end their partnership with you?

[audadvnc]

@Twist9 - Right. We saw this piece months ago.

[jelaninl]

SOUNDS alot like lsd

[akirapills767]

It's scary to think of being quixotic to the point of complete alienation from society but to have such faith (delusion?) in one's dream still has an appeal

[nashstruck]

HUH.. what is this?

[glassminimalist]

What do you call it if you get the drift from THIS video?

[Casadorperfect]

@glassminimalist

I was wondering that too..

[defect530]

i think im still feeling the mushrooms from last night

whoa

[Humble117]

Stylish!

[koneye]

yeah dudeee

[Warhawk666]

It gets you thinking...

[teemuruskeepaa]

It's impressionism!

[69Sphynx]

Very reminiscent of the Quatermass Experiment in underlying atmosphere. Liked it.

[Mc8370]

This video was already posted a long time ago, but it's so nice I'd watch it over and over again.

[MARIUSCORVINUS]

FUK this is the most powerfull massege that i ever seen in a short , just wonderfull , i love it

[poetyk07]

Love it.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

i still think Tokyo drift was better

[Blaqoon]

@CRAKIZGOOD LOL.

[SpeedFreakNO]

I've seen this before, long time ago.

[djtowo]

this is the way that shorts should be,A good Stroy combined with stylized graphics

[panda2621]

If this was real thad be pretty scary

[moj9494]

I wanna hear the song!

[markaz2kk]

@moj9494 look it up.. cant u hear the noise played on this??? tha humm. is what can send signal sound through. put metal in the middle of a magnet and u get sound like a speaker.. people did find this as weird but yes this did happen.. woooo can go back to china to make his crapy electronic pieces and figure it out.. but most of us knew what happened and looked this up some time.. if not.. u can look it up.. but the information has almost been deleted... (UHUMM GVT). look at sleep machines..

[markaz2kk]

@moj9494 the hypnotic noise... that's what it is....

[susipunkrockprincess]

brilliant..

[scifiwritir]

Wow. At first I thought...I wish they'd animated this. Yeah, but that wasn't the director's aim. So I decided to go with it as it was. Don't know why...but I actually liked this a lot. It grew on me. Really good voice over. Thanks for the upload.

[dangerousprimate]

really good!!

[lolboyboy1]

Okay... that freak me out...

[TK42138]

Superb!

[steadiworkz]

Epic voice over !

[Scoob505]

woah...

[Jordanlastchaos]

its cool.... nice.......

[Saione]

i think is cool but i dont understand almost nothing...Im learning english now

[sundbyjohn]

have nothing so say