{"id":1689,"date":"2013-03-23T13:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2013-03-22T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:42:56","slug":"a-life-alone-an-incredibly-powerful-short-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/23\/a-life-alone-an-incredibly-powerful-short-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A life alone: An incredibly powerful short video"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You try to live your life like you used to, and the &#8220;used to&#8221; isn&#8217;t there. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27305723\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gulp.<\/p>\n<p>This is an incredible five minute piece combining beautiful still photography, video, and audio, that in a few short minutes captures the depth of love and the tragedy of loss in the life of Tom Rose, who is struggling to cope with the loss of his wife of 63 years. It is a form of multi-media poetry, powerfully distilling decades of life and experience into a frame or a sob.<\/p>\n<p>Be warned \u2013 it&#8217;s not an easy watch. It is, in the end, a scary dark patch in all of our lives, and the lives of those we love and care for; a price we pay for the joy of being together is the pain of being apart.<\/p>\n<p>Big props to Maisie Crow for such a fine piece of work. Every part of it is quite something, and together the pieces pack an enormous emotional wallop. And <a href=\"http:\/\/flakphoto.com\/content\/maisie-crow-a-life-alone\">thanks to FlakPhoto<\/a> for bringing it to my attention.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/age\/\" title=\"age\">age<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/art\/\" title=\"Art\">Art<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/love\/\" title=\"love\">love<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/media-poetry\/\" title=\"media poetry\">media poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/multi-media\/\" title=\"multi media\">multi media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/photography\/\" title=\"Photography\">Photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/poetry\/\" title=\"poetry\">poetry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/tragedy\/\" title=\"tragedy\">tragedy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/18\/wonderful-little-film-about-paul-rand\/\" title=\"Wonderful little film about Paul Rand (18 Nov 07)\">Wonderful little film about Paul Rand<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/05\/30\/a-great-piece-of-time-lapse-photography\/\" title=\"A great piece of time lapse photography (30 May 09)\">A great piece of time lapse photography<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You try to live your life like you used to, and the &#8220;used to&#8221; isn&#8217;t there. It&#8217;s gone. Gulp. This is an incredible five minute piece combining beautiful still photography, video, and audio, that in a few short minutes captures the depth of love and the tragedy of loss in the life of Tom Rose, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2013\/03\/23\/a-life-alone-an-incredibly-powerful-short-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A life alone: An incredibly powerful short video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[21,25,20,28],"tags":[569,870,785,786,788,869,124,787,876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":925,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/02\/23\/i-really-should-say-thank-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"I really should say thank you","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"23 Feb 09","format":false,"excerpt":"I got a lot of very cool gifts at Xmas, but a clear stand out is the above, a wonderful, hand made art book created by my lovely wife just for me! 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