Hours and Hours of Relaxing & Meditative Videos
Today is Election Day in the US and even President Obama is saying these elections “might be the most important of our lifetimes”. Everyone is a liiiittle on edge. Instead of exhorting you to go vote, I dug through the kottke.org archives for some videos to watch if you need a calm moment or hour or entire afternoon and deep into the evening’s election returns.
From the BBC Earth team, long videos of relaxing sounds and scenes from their groundbreaking documentaries like Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II (more here):
A 10-hour version of the world’s most relaxing song:
This is one of my personal favorites, a Norwegian icebreaker idling in the frozen Arctic — “natural white noise sounds generated by the wind and snow falling, combined with deep low frequencies with delta waves from the powerful icebreaker idling engines”:
A 30-day time lapse of a container ship traveling from the Red Sea to Hong Kong:
Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune is always relaxing and is the perfect accompaniment to snow surfing, an acrobatic art performance, and a tour of the Moon:
A realtime orbit of the Earth in 92 minutes, as seen from the International Space Station:
Somehow, watching someone unslice a tomato is super relaxing:
Recording of a live view of a Norwegian train making its way through the wintery countryside:
Julian Baumgartner restoring a damaged painting:
90-minute video of the sea filmed from the bow of a container ship (no sound but you could combine w/ the most relaxing song):
An 18-minute tour of the International Space Station:
One of Michael Shainblum’s many nature time lapse videos:
A 24-hour generative soundtrack to a trip around Iceland by Sigur Rós (thx, lisa):
This isn’t relaxing but it is funny — a meditation guided by a Dalek:
That’s all I’ve got. Do you have any particular favorites I haven’t posted? Let me know!
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