Europe has many breath-taking cathedrals. Quite many, in fact! Each time I was in one while I was in Europe, I said a lot of prayers. Most of the time I was in them, I just enjoyed the experience without my smart phones. However, the occasional time I was in them, I took a minute to pull out the phone and did a panoramic capture of the space just by rotating around. Here are the two I did, the Vatican inside of Rome, and St. Chapelle in Paris.
Author: Digital Citizen
Descending the Stairs of Sacre-Coeur in Paris
Sacre-Coeur is a glorious church in Paris. Inside are two very tight spiral stairways, of which I have captured the one used to go down after knowing what to expect in having gone up. It would be boring to watch me go down at regular speed, though, so I sped it up and accompanied it with what I deemed to be a dizzying piece of music at breakneck speed to it, The Flight of the Bumblebee, by Rimsky-Korsakov.
The view at the top was breath-taking, by the way. I would highly recommended. However, I didn’t capture any footage because I was having a personal visit with God, and They don’t like it when They don’t have your full attention. 😉
Thanks for the time and advice, God. I hope you’ll keep your promise on all those prayers I gave You! 😉
Eiffel Tower Night Light Shows
On the hour after dark during evenings, the Eiffel Tower has a little light show lasting almost five minutes. While in Paris, I was able to be ready to enjoy and capture that, knowing it would be nothing compared to what one will be able to see during the Olympics and afterwards when I am sure they will really put on a show with the tower!
Eiffel Tower Elevator Rides
While I was in Paris, I was lucky enough to be able to experience the Eiffel Tower on a day when it wasn’t too crowded so I would get the elevator window spot on the rides up and down to have gotten these videos of these experiences.
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room
While I was in Houston in 2023, I got to visit their absolutely incredible Museum of Fine Arts. Out of all the many amazing pieces I saw there, this was one of my favourite, the Infinity Room by Yayoi Kusama, Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity. It was one of those things where photos simply did not do it justice, so I took a quick video at the end of the single minute I had to myself in the room.
As I enjoyed the experience, then grabbed a quick video before stepping out, I had Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, movement 1, in my head. It was a piece I not only loved, and somehow deemed appropriate for the moment, I had it memorized so I could literally play it through with all the notes in my mind, not just some vague version of it via general recollection.
A half a year later, after I saw what I could do with videos in TikTok, I was able to recreate my experience in that exhibit with the Moonlight Sonata playing to what I saw that was absolutely silent otherwise. People who want that experience from my video can just mute the sound, of course, but what an experience. The next time I am there, if the exhibit is still there as it doesn’t seem to have an end date currently, I will just get a one minute video, having had the experience as it was intended without phone distraction already in most of the time of my first and only experience with the exhibit.
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