Life in a Day: Part 2 of 2, Sunset, Answers and Kookaburras (Higher quality version available)

[ilovejamesfrancoxo]

Thank you for introducing the world to one simple, but beautiful word that takes place in everyone's lives. Congrats on Life in a Day.

[jmarleymart]

love it (:

my favorite word however, is "L'esprit d'escalier" (French) the feeling you get after you leave a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means "the spirit of the staircase."

[reece200587]

would you please read to me everynight <3

[LanaVlogs]

The way you speak...it's so poetic. :)

[19lionkingfan]

Its kinda dramatic

[libyanaky]

can we like be friends or hang out or call each other ? :)

[ultraret]

how many times.. can i rape replay this video before im considered .. freaking physico ?

[ultraret]

OMG... U R AMAZ- ING

[ultraret]

hey... i love this. lovely chick

[CwissinDaKidd]

love your sound

[JackeTee]

This is unbelievably pretentious. Don't pretend you can read this. Your head is just too far up there.

[CowboyStarrProject]

Hello, I found you after all this searching. It's me! I might also be in love with you.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@CowboyStarrProject Very glad you found me :) What a fantastic project we were able to be a part of!

[CowboyStarrProject]

@TheRavenOfPoe Do you ever come to the U.S.? If so, please let me know. I'd love to meet you and introduce you to some of the others.

[1RedFox2]

I like how they used this clip, but then linked it to clips other people sent in of them experiencing "mamihlapinatapai" but they didnt even know the were experiencing it. congratulations on getting in btw, it must have been exciting :)

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@1RedFox2 Yes, I was very interested to see how they would be able to integrate this clip :) Thank you very much!

[JoSieLove2Sing4u]

Loved to hear the Kookaburras and to hear of the clever idea of notes in books.

Always enjoy your posts on YT.

♥

[DavidS1231]

Well, I am not surprised that your video was used in the final cut of the Life In A Day film at Sundance on 1/27/11! Congratulations!

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@DavidS1231 Thank you! ^^ And I think they chose the part that deserves to be remembered most - 'mamihlapinatapai'! :)

[trmania]

Congratulations on having your video used in "Life in a Day" (about the 50 min mark)! I loved "The Stranger" reading and favorited it years ago, so when I saw your clip in the film, I thought I recognized you. Again, congratulations!

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@trmania Thank you for finding me again, Nick! :) It's wonderful that Life in a Day could link back to The Stranger like this!

[Assgier]

Australia's nature is truly beautiful. Noisy (the kookaburras), yet at the same time so quiet and peacefully. Absolutely love it!

The word 'mahmilapilatapai' would make a good pronouncing-exercise for people starting to learn English, even though the word itself is Yaghan (learned that from your earlyer VLOG!) ;)

[winston2015]

from wiki: Mamihlapinatapai: the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes "a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start."

If you dont get 'word-a-day' via email, subscribe, it's free..u'l love it.

[winston2015]

Ive a book that contains 5 or 6 signatures w/dates -what is likely every owner going back to the mid-19th cent. -it's pretty cool.

Also have very unique book called "The Chronicles of Yaddo" -a bio made by a mother (Katina Trask?) to her 2 children 'Spencer, 5 & Christina 11' -who died.

The Trasks ended up creating an artist's colony which is still around today. The the book is a work of art; handmade in stiff white vellum w/a little silver gilt, & beautiful handmade clasp, cloth ep's..

[TheRavenOfPoe]

@winston2015 They sound like beautiful books! :) I relish finding the signatures of former owners of books I now own - it always makes me wonder what their stories were.

[travisraycole]

I found a letter a crazy person wrote once they were mad at the mayor in Chicago for the problems they had. I think I still have it,I kept it because of the pain & sadness they shared. Blues,Chicago. There is not a sunset that could hold my intrest the way You can unless it was the sunset & You, Now that would be..well a lot like this video Haha Libary book spam. How about We get a paper route & add our own ad, or take our poetry to a busy intersection & throw it up into the air. Haha (DONE)

[nordicsky]

I think, like the cockatoos, you are a morning bird. The silence and peace of the morning showed in your more thoughtful and introspective commentary. For me the sunset is my favourite part of the day and it would be even more special with those Kookaburras. The noises in Australia are different too. Imagine how those first explorers must have felt making camp for the night as they headed west over the Blue Mountains.

On Saturday, I shall go to the library to place my poems in poetry books.

[SaBracaSam]

Schon wieder dieses Wort :)

[fuertherbube]

Here's an Idea: Go to the library, rent a book. Read it an pick your favourite quote. Write it on a piece of paper and put it inside the book for the next one to read. Maybe he/she does the same. Isn't that wonderful?

[blueastcoast]

Once again.. incredible.. I love the sereneness of it.. I'm jealous of the cool weather you're experiencing at the moment! I don't think I'd be able to adjust too quickly to the sounds your birds make either, they are brilliant though haha! Thank you for making these, Jen! ;)

[blueastcoast]

ah, and I'd love to get a message in a book from somebody! It would be so fun! Especially if you left the note in a book which is very far from where you live, like another country

[emmet1970]

thank you,

beautiful video.

maybe your message

in a bottle to the future.

[Mattsam1000]

Thanks youtube for not telling me about this vid >.>.... any way, another beautiful video from a very beautiful person ^^

1: i love studying

2: i hate hate if that makes any sence

3:nothing :(

ps: how are you?

[BridgeWorkz]

I like the note idea..., thanks again for being so open and sharing :)

[1488bill]

a haiku for Jen

dawn to dusk,light fades

reminisce, birds sing away

content.....peaceful day

[Lost8Wizard]

❤ Much love from the heart ❤

[blastedgoat]

after working in a library i can tell you about the strange things you can find! i love finding forgotten notes or examining the carvings on school desks... we all want to leave a legacy of sorts i suppose...

1) i love my cat who is currently under the weather and is walking rather strangely :(

2) i hate unforgivably rude people, especially those who make children and pass on their inadequacies.

3) there is nothing in my pocket, i am wearing makeshift pajamas!

[flan984]

The sunset was at least as good as the sunrise... :)

You know, I found the note you discovered in the Silmarillion a very interesting concept indeed...viral advertising though it was, I liked the idea of leaving a small message to chance, just to be discovered by anyone who might come across it... The random factor of it all and how much it seems to be testing fate just tickles my most spiritual (for lack of a better word) side...

And, well (...)

[flan984]

(...) as everyone seems to be doing it, I'll leave my answers for the 24th of July questions too.

1) Quietly reading under the sunlight.

2)loneliness (not the one you might momentarily choose, that one is good, but the one that comes from failing to communicate with other people)

3) a Portuguese coin from before we joined the "euro". I like the way it is a link to the recent past I can easily carry with me.

I really do hope to see you in the next Ridley Scott production..best of luck... :)

[Mastertaima]

1) I love how unique everyone's lives, and stories are.

2) I hate hypocrisy.

3) Nothing right now, but I once read a book that had many little bus ticket stubs in it, made me wonder why this person was going so many places, and let me see just how much of the book they had read at each stop.

[battlebauble]

It is interesting how the ancient lost languages can express such intricate and beautiful concepts. Humanity is so much the poorer for the loss. Thank you for sharing.

[128pagenovella]

the note wasn't to advertise a book, it was done to connect to you...

[legzandherpiano]

1) I love my cat & my boyfriend

2) I'm scared of dieing

3) I don't have any pockets, but I do have the following in my purse: pen, ticket for dixie stampede, change, a pair of broken hoop earrings that I still wear quite often, sewing kit, victoria's secret pure seduction body lotion, Five Guys resturant menu, pills, hand sanitizer, Cameo Ultra Glow lip glass, worry stone my friend picked out and gave to me :), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

[johnAshpool]

You have already left a note. The year 2200 will come, you may be certain of it, whether humans exist or not. And this little video clip will be a note from the past.

[audionautix]

The way you deliver these ideas is enchanting. There is such grace and power in peaceful quiet. Thank you for sharing part of your day here.

[stars1861]

1) I love pie

2) I hate hot weather

3) I have a nickle in my pocket

Great video (again).

[chrisnatti]

Do you know how to spell that word...Manilimonatapie? Is that how you spell it??

[edgewayround]

Manilimonatapie ............. Cool word !!!!!

[chrisnatti]

Sometimes after I read a book, I write a little note on the inside cover of the book and leave it on the subway platform. The note is always addressed to whom finds this book. It's fun to walk away from the book and wonder who finds it and takes it. I'm always tempted to hide and wait and see who picks it up. Great story you told. Even though it was an ad, at least it inspired a little hunt to find if there were more. Too bad it was an ad. Thanks again for another beautiful video.

[achigurh]

wow..now i know that every time i see a jungle movie scene in the amazon or africa that the sound is FAKE... that they are using the aussie Kookaburras ! xD

[harleynanda]

There is a poetry in your perspective dear lady, and its subtle grace is revealed in both your face and demeanor in these opening frames. You had wondered in the sharing of your immediate moment if any other on this planet were of a similar mind in the same instant, but I thank you instead for simply sharing that moment and bringing its peace into a hectic and troubled day. For a brief but refreshing period ...

[fendermac]

Keep what you love in your right pocket.Keep what you fear in your left pocket.If what you fear contaminates what you love you're buggered for good an'all

[Regusername]

If I read poetry a lot I start dreaming of it, I wake up with images & poetry, though I can't quite grasp it, so complex & beautiful it just floats away. I remembered some the other morning, it seems I must be making up words, rhyming sounds that I give meaning. Malyandy means old & worn but still beautiful & of good quality, in my dream poem it was describing a black leather handbag.

Hahaha, so yeah if I learn some real words I could write poetry in my sleep.