In 2013 I sold almost all my possessions and began a barefoot journey across the Pyrenees Mountains lugging my solar powered camera kit all the way! What I learned on that journey has set a wheel in motion which cannot be stopped.
For I know now with clarity what it is that I want :)
The Moving Timelapse Mantra is a collection of my best time-lapse & drone work... interwoven with my thoughts on the subject of creativity and the way I choose to live my life now.
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Follow your creativity, it's the only way to live!
Shot using custom-built motion control system, Canon 5D MKII, Gopro & DJI Phantom quadcopter in UK, France, Spain, Italy, USA, Thailand, Zambia & South Africa.
If you have any suggestions for awesome time-lapse locations I would love to hear about them!
And if you have any questions regarding my words or anything else at all, it will be my pleasure to answer them for you.
THE MOVING TIMELAPSE MANTRA
We are born to dream, born to let our hearts carry us…
Born to evolve and break the mould.
Born to walk our own path and find our own way in everything we do
and like a single droplet of water falling upon a vast lake of droplets,
the ripple of our lives reaches out and touches the lives of many.
So whether we like it or not we always leave something behind,
and that something at it's very core is creative,
because that something is you and you are different to everyone else.
Never listen to anyone who tells you you are not creative.
Remember we are all good at different things
and it is only society that puts our skills into boxes.
It does not matter what other people think so stop comparing yourself to them.
Do what feels right to you.
If you desire money, do not focus on your lack of money but upon that which makes your heart sing.
If you follow your creative instincts you will find your niche and in time you will become greater your chosen passion and abundance will flow to you…
But never forget: life is not about the destination but the journey.
And you are creating that journey with every thought you think because this is the language of The Universe.
Today I have no home, yet I feel at home wherever I am and now that my home is the world I feel compelled to look after it.
Today I have no boss and yet I am always busy creating things that make me and those around me feel good today.
Today I have no savings yet I feel richer than ever because today I choose to focus only on what I can do with what i have and everything is always exactly the way it is meant to be!
I travel the world endlessly and I document my journey in my own way.
I shoot time-lapse films
I write songs
I spin a fire-sick
I do magic tricks
I eat LIVING food
I look at the Sun
I connect with nature
I play
I dream…
I dream.
I'm like a child in the candy store of life reaching out for those things I once imagined possible…
Because I know now that my mind is my only limitation.
Acknowledgements:
I have received much help from people over the years without which many of these shots would not have been possible.
Therefore I would like to thank (in date order):
Dale Bluett for looking after me in Zambia & South Africa. This man was busy with his day job but still had the time to drive me to a new time-lapse location every morning before sunrise.
Peter O'Reilly for sneaking me into the Shell building when no one was looking, to shoot the London Eye from such a great position over the river Thames.
Mike Stonehill for looking after me in on both the west and the east coast of America. Thanks to him I was able to shoot the majestic red sunset shot in Palm Springs.
Heston Harper for being a life long supporter and for looking after Dominika & I in Thailand. I needed to be in Thailand to meet Sabrina, so thanks for that!
Dominika Martincova for inspiring me to finally leave the UK and for working tirelessly with me to produce all the shots on our little Camino and in Barcelona.
Francisco Queral Miro for letting Dominika & I live rent free for a month in our own house in Barcelona, in the perfect spot right next to the park.
John Thompson for being in Thailand at the perfect time to shoot the aerial shot of the spirulina farm for me, and for teaching me about quadcopters!
Toddington Harper & Duncan Bott for looking after me in Italy, for letting me hang out on his solar farm and for buying me a quadcopter!
Digby Oldridge for being a supportive friend for over 30 years and for finding me the beautiful example of English countryside.
Finally I would like to thank my partner Sabrina for posing in front of my camera for nine months and for introducing me to some awesome time-lapse locations here in the south of france. And let's not forget my son Esteban who sat so perfectly still for me on the day I came up with the eye reflection shot :)
I am eternally grateful to you all.
Music - The Event Horizon by Johannes Bornlöf, Epidemic Sound.
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visually documenting his experience of the world, following his 10 year journey from his invisible London prison of 9-5 to a life of freedom on the road.
He travels the world with his partner and two children and with no bank account he has been living on STEEM & crypto for over six months.
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Looking forward to meeting more filmmakers on DTube!
Nice work, loving the timelapse and the message of the video. !! Well done.
Thanks very much for the comment. Plenty more where that one came from ;)
Love the timelapse video! It resonates with my view on life, as I recently wrote on my website: "I believe the main purpose in life is to express oneself creatively; and to realize that we create our perceived reality with our thoughts, fueled by our beliefs, amplified by our emotions."
Fantastic words my friend. I hope to see you transfer your website on to steemit now! In sharing that which we have learned we find ourselves receiving so much more in return :)
I think you are going to enjoy the numerous films I have in store for you!
I look forward to watch more of your videos @samstonehill. I hope to be able to make and post some videos and audio recordings in the near future as well.
great stuff. It didnt work in safari and I had the same problem with uploading to dtube but it was sorted in chrome
I'm actually using Opera for this. But good to know that Chrome is working too.
Looking forward to furiously uploading now!
@jabez518 You can still reach the top man, just keep up the faith.
Yes brother. I am all over it ;)
Love it.
thanks!
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lovely post of a personal journey! we all have to find our own way of getting to where we want to be!
How right you are. And no matter how much we might want another person to be where we are, all we can do is focus on ourselves and live by example :)
Blessings, Love & Light 🙏🏻
OMG! Sam that video is so epic, it is just such a high quality production, your voice is perfect for this, it just gives me goose bombs and what you are telling us makes me feel connected with not only you but with the all of mind we are living in. I am missing the words to describe, I just love this!
Thanks for commenting on both accounts! :)
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