The Sunset Series: John's videos looking at horizons (2016)
project history · status: last documented in 2021 · last event: milestone (2021-07-27)
The Sunset Series is a set of John's videos looking at horizons, going back to 2016. It returned in 2021 with a video on savoring.
Origin known from later mentions
2016 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2017, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
About: sunset
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-04 | milestone | Sunsets in Michigan are so ostentatiously beautiful that they are ordinary there, unlike back home in Indiana, where the light just gets grayer until dark. | Civil Twilight 00:00:31 |
| 2019-07-02 | milestone | Third-coast days close with gaudily beautiful sunsets, recalling T. S. Eliot's line that light is the visible reminder of invisible light. | On Sunlight 00:02:26 |
| 2021-07-27 | milestone | The description says the video is part of The Sunset Series, a set of videos looking at horizons that goes back to 2016. | Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns creator comment |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-07-04 · Civil Twilight — John says the beauty of sunsets and civil twilight is by now so cliché that it is hard to say anything interesting about them. — 00:00:48
- 2017-07-04 · Civil Twilight — John loves E. E. Cummings' sunset poem but says it works only because it is set in childhood, before one realises how lame it is to write about sunsets. — 00:01:09
- 2017-07-04 · Civil Twilight — John: A good sunset is universally beautiful: our ancestors lived very differently, but every human who has lived a few years has paused at a beautiful sunset, grateful and overwhelmed. — 00:01:16
- 2017-07-04 · Civil Twilight — John: Sunlight is scattered by molecules in the atmosphere; at sunset it travels through more atmosphere, so much of the blue and purple is scattered away before reaching us. — 00:01:46
- 2019-07-02 · On Sunlight — John: A third-coast sunset shows John how small he is: the lake is small beside the planet, the planet beside the sun, the sun one star among countless. — 00:03:04