G’day fans. Subscribers.
People of the web.
To round out 2020
I thought it was nice to just quickly review…
NOTHING
in particular.
Yeah nah we’re gonna let the fabric of life
unfurl
for a few minutes
and we’re gonna peer into its intricate woven threads.
But not too deeply.
Ah it’s easy to think of ‘Nothing’ as a bad thing.
But it isn’t!
Have you guys ever just looked at kelp?
Kelp.
Plain old, wet salty kelp.
Look at the lines.
The shape.
Nothing is really happening here, but mate,
it’s pretty bloody good.
Speaking of wet…
water.
Doing nothing,
but it’s got this weird, innate familiarity
in its constant changing form.
Here’s water covered in snowballs.
It looks like a gigantic ocean
of icy boobs.
And that’s ok!
It’s not weird. It shouldn’t be weird.
It’s just one of the things that happens
on this little planet of ours.
Lots happens and nothing happens.
Here’s a horse playing a recorder.
[ ♫ Playing flute ♫ ]
It’s magical.
Ah, it is.
Going into next year
we may end up spending
more time on trains again
doing literally nothing,
but you are doing so much at once!
You really are.
Trains are like little rooms
trapped in time,
moving together as one, hurtling through space…
but it feels so still.
Even the most chaotic forces
can find time for nothingness
ya know.
Here’s Donald and Baron,
they’re doing nothing,
look at ‘em.
I mean they’re listening to Taylor Swift on the radio,
which I can’t play out loud
for copyright reasons.
But sweet bugger all happening here.
Sweet. Bugger. All.
Maybe they’re thinking
into the future.
Of everything to come
or the nothing
that will follow.
This is a sunspot.
It’s about 50,000 KM wide,
and roughly 7000 degrees Celsius.
But it’s not doing anything.
Nah.
Nothing.
It looks like a butthole
you’re probably thinking,
which is fine. Heheh.
Ahhhh what happened in his life?
Easy peasy.
A whole lot
of continuous nothing.
WHHHHHOOOOOSH...
Fuck me.
I wanna scream at this thing
like a baby goat
screaming into the valley.
[Screaming baby goat]
[Silence]
[Screaming baby goat]
I reckon Nothing is nothing to be afraid of.
Savour the joy of finding moments of nothingness.
Kick back, look at the world,
and go “shhhhiiit,
that’s a fair dinkum bloody lovely looking mountain.”
Yeah.
Nothing shouldn’t be a guilt hanging around your neck.
Joy. Joy, joy, joy.
A chance to revel
in a moment
of pure enjoyment, alone or with a friend,
or with sheep
playing footy…
like this shiela in
uggies.
It's so much going on here,
but also- yeah there’s nothing happening too.
Two lizards giving each other a hug.
A bloody good hug.
Nothing. Nothing to see here.
Ducks! Just a couple of ducks sitting there.
Fucking ducks. Look at them.
Giving themselves a spruce. Doing nothing,
but it’s brilliant!
Water again.
Yeah, there’s just so much going on
and we all want something so bad,
and we’re all in such a big hurry to get…
somewhere…
in doing so, we’re not paying attention to
some of the best bits of the world.
The best bits of nothing.
Just waves crashing on a beach.
Enjoy it.
Let it soooooooth your mind.
Go on.
Go for a swim.
Well yeah I mean, this is just a screen
so you can’t go for a swim.
But you can imagine.
You can imagine going for a swim
and that’s nice,
or just keep doing Nothing.