How I Transformed a Forest into a Magical Nightscape

And no one cared. . .

A few years ago I had the inspiration to do an art installation in a wooded glade for a meditative YouTube video.

I always loved the way that coloured and kinetic lighting dances on trees, it is a very beautiful and surreal experience to watch. It is also something that you don’t get to see too often.

So I rented a bunch of programmable DMX stage lighting from our local rentals place and I spent an entire day lighting up a large section of trees on my family’s property in the country.

As the sun went down and we turned on those lights it was quite a magical and mesmerizing thing to behold. A handful of family members who lived in the area came to watch and they agreed that it was pretty fantastic.

I spent several hours filming a variety of shots and I spent a couple of days editing it into the following video:

This was the very first video I ever posted on my Frater Seamus YouTube channel. I am sharing it with you now because as of today, after a full two years on YouTube it has received a total of 42 views.

I think that is a shame.

I don’t think it has such a low view count because it is poor quality or boring. I simply think that it was a new channel and the algorithm did not know what to do with it and so the video died the dreaded algorithmic death. It is a meditative art video, not an easy sell in the world of quick cuts and attention grabbing shorts.

So today I gave it a new title and description and I am sharing it with you in the hopes that it may find a new audience who appreciates the beauty of it.