Normally, I wait until I upload a video to YouTube before posting anything here. But hey, Substack autouploads to YouTube, but not as a Shorts video.
The opening lines of the song, “Pale Blue Eyes” inspired the title of this video, except I changed the ‘Sometimes….” to “somewhere..”
I was walking to a rendezvous with my college batchmates in Gurgaon, where I live, when I conceived of this video.
I was walking in Cyberhub, Gurgaon, and Cyberhub (the party zone) is next to Cybercity (the office zone). Office goers often visit restaurants and pubs in Cyberhub after work, while others visit to shop, eat, drink, and socialize.
I returned home around 1 am that night, slightly sozzled. We discussed the world’s problems without letting the world’s problems touch us.
As I walked to ‘The Drunken Botanist,’ I shot short videos on my Google Pixel 10, capturing people walking aimlessly toward restaurants and bars. All the while, I kept thinking, ‘Shit, hell. Schoolgirls died in Iran. People are dying there, as they are in Sudan, the Congo, Xinjiang, Burma…. And, we are walking along to the party, as though all is well with the world.’
To quote the lead character in the movie, “Three Idiots,” - ‘Alll izzz vell.’ Our government jailed - and recently released - the great man, Sonam Wangchuk, who inspired the movie. Sonam Wangchuk is a great man and one of the world’s great environmentalists, yet when he protested on an issue, the government deemed him a threat to national security.
‘Alll izzzz not vell.’
I don’t have war videos, so I downloaded a few from Envato, and created a few AI videos using Envato. This video, you see, is a ‘mixed media’ video, with music from Epidemic Sound.
Yes, somewhere there’s a party. Somewhere, there’s a war.
