Visualize Your Life

Everyone knows iTunes. Well, I hope everyone knows iTunes. There's so much magic in iTunes. Not only do they have totally sweet commercials. Those dancer people make me so envious because I'll never have moves like them. HOWEVER, I totally rock out to music like they do. But anyway, back to magic. iTunes brings music first and foremost, which of course I think is quite magical. But what's perhaps even more magical than that is a little thing called iTunes Visualizer. Heard of it? Play a song on your iTunes, then hit ctrl (or command if you're a mac) T. Step 2 - ctrl F.

WOW! It's like shooting stars all over your computer screen!!!!!!! The best is when you can put it on a big screen. That's freakin' cool. I could seriously stare at that thing for hours. It is so calming and just captures your mind. I think it's because the pretty lights usually match the beat to the music, so you just can't look away. "Cosmic Love" by Florence + The Machine is insanely cool and totally matches the song and the lyrics too because she talks about the stars and moon and stuff. Listen to it at the bottom and then go see for your self....LITERALLY.

picture via www.imamuseum.org

I don't really even know why I decided to blog about this. I just felt like I hadn't blogged in a while and my visualizer was going and I was like, "WOWWW. I'm still soooo intrigued. I gotta let someone know."

The lights remind me of lots of things. I mean you got the star and space thing going. And you got the whole silent fireworks idea (except they're not really silent because you have music playing, but you know what I mean).

For me, it's really cool how I can finally associate an image with my favorite songs, especially since I'm a visual person. I think sometimes that songs are just to great for images or videos and lots of times their music videos just do not live up to what the song means or represents, but with the visualizer, it's totally up to interpretation. Just like songs are and the lyrics to that song. So really it's a perfect match. They really are a great pair together. Some philosophical moments could definitely come from watching the visualizer for just 2 minutes.

So I guess the "bigger picture" to this totally random post would be that you should visualize your life. And everything it in. Start making images to go with everything. And when I say images, I don't mean drop everything and become an artist. I mean, like, to start associating concepts with other concepts, ideas, or beliefs. Start connecting them to the bigger things in life. Visualize them so they can be interpreted by you or others.

And then when YOUR head starts spinning from all this, just turn the visualizer back on. It'll calm you back down and chill you out for a good while.