Prime Mover

There are some who say our universe operates like clockwork, or better yet, like a game of billiards. Each piece moves according to a set of discrete rules, affected by what came before it, onward and upward and backward in time, until we reach a philosophical singularity: Who (or what) did the original moving? The answer, of course, will likely elude us until whatever the opposite of a Big Bang is comes to pass. Wars have been fought over it, friendships and families foresaken and lost, and what for? This timelapse video was shot in one of my favorite places on our planet, Yosemite National Park. I crouched there on the banks of the Merced River in the dark, watching as late-n...View all