Hong Kong is Home

[Rogue Trader]

This is truly an awe inspiring and beautiful time lapse video on HK SAR. Put on your headphones and enjoy the next 4 minutes.

Created by Javin Lau, a Canadian expat living in Hong Kong, this video captures both the spirit of a heaving metropolis and the stillness beyond it in more rural landscapes. While the contrast in scenery is vastly different, the overbearing sense of insignificance in both environments is exactly the same. This feeling of isolation, similar to the movie Oblivion which inspired it, is now striking a chord with Japanese viewers, who are praising the video for its quiet beauty and bold images. Check out the clip after the jump.

Some of the still pictures from the video look almost like they were taken straight out of an anime movie. There’s a unique sense of art in the colours, curves and lines of city life.

As Lau says,”Hong Kong is an unbelievably dense city, where much of the world can be accessed at your fingertips. But in a city where you can access the material world in a matter of seconds, it also has the ability to isolate you from the eight million people around you as well.” Check out the clip below:

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/65620112?color=f58943" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Hong Kong is Home. from Javin Lau on Vimeo.

 

[Rogue Trader]

I'm sure IDA/STB/EDB will copy this and make a singapore version one day.

And I will be very sure it will lack the 'soul' which makes this video so special.

 

[Sir_Fcuk]

HK also has seasons, from typhoons to a winter. A huge hinterland and no need for an army or SAF scholars. Their flm industry alone trashes mediacorp pants down. HK is one of the countries more stinking rude than Singapore

Singapore is stinking hot and has no hinterland. Extra $$$ has to be spent on the $AF and paying ministers.

 

[eatshitndie]

"please step back from the doors..... tut tut tut tut tut!" if you spend too much time in the mtr, this will drive you nuts.