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I See You ~ A Video Montage by LeSCINTILLA

January 1, 2013 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

This video montage was created using Cyberlink Power Director Ultimate 11. I got the multiple clips I used to create this short film from the videos listed under video footage (see below). I wanted to show the tender relationship we can experience with animals and emphasize how we can benefit from deeper more meaningful contacts with other living things sharing this world with us. The quality of all the clips was superb so it was pure pleasure working on this project. The sources for this project had many scenes of women with animals; I had viewed them a few months ago but it was when I heard the song “I see You” that the idea for this video came to me. I assembled all the clips I wanted to use and matched the rhythm of the music and the lyrics, and made a story about our relationship with animals.
Btw, I would not sit on an Alligator/crocodile/ other beasts such as those. I love animals, but I have limits to my level of closeness and tenderness toward some of them.:)

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
~Henry Beston

James Horner

MUSIC “I See You” by James Horner

sung by Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis

LYRICS for the song “I See You”

I see you
I see you
Walking through a dream
I see you
My light in darkness breathing hope of new life
Now I live through you and you through me
Enchanting
I pray in my heart that this dream never ends
I see me through your eyes

Living through life flying high
Your life shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice
I live through your love
You teach me how to see

All that’s beautiful
My senses touch your word I never pictured
Now I give my hope to you
I surrender
I pray in my heart that this world never ends
I see me through your eyes
Living through life flying high

Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life
I offer my love, for you
When my heart was never open
(and my spirit never free)
To the world that you have shown me
But my eyes could not envision
All the colours of love and of life ever more

Evermore
(I see me through your eyes)
I see me through your eyes
(Living through life flying high)
Flying high

Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice
And live through your love
And live through your life
I see you
I see you

VIDEO FOOTAGE
Estrellas del Bicentenario–Stars of the Bicentennial by Televisa.

TAMAULIPAS

TAMAULIPAS~Bocatoma
Poza Azul
Cenote El Zacaton

VERA CRUZ–El Salto de Eyipantla, San Andres Tuxtla

SINALOA
Isla Altamura, Angostura

OAXACA
Hierve el Agua, Cascadas Petrificada
Monte Alban, Zona Arqueologica

QUINTANA ROO

Parque Arrecifes de Cozumel
Isla de las Golondrinas
Parque Chankanaab
Tulum, Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka An

YUCATAN:
Uxmal, Zona Arqueologica
Ria Lagartos, Reserva de la Biosfera

CHIHUAHUA
Desierto de Salamayuca
El Divisadero, Barrancas del Cobreei

VISIT THESE SITES:
Conservation
Oceania
WCS

As a hobby I create video montages. My short films amount to hours of editing work. I look at documentaries, commercials, music videos etc… for footage and use seconds long clips from these sources, and assemble them together with special effects to tell a story.

LeSCINTILLA

Claude Debussy “Beau Soir” ~ Live in the Moment ~ A Video Montage by LeScintilla

December 4, 2012 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

“What day is it?”
It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day,” said Pooh.”~A.A. Milne

Music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918)

“Beau Soir”

(French for “Beautiful Evening”) is a setting of a poem by Paul Bourget.

Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses
Et qu’un tiède frisson court sur les champs de blé,
Un conseil d’être heureux semble sortir des choses
Et monter vers le coeur troublé.

Un conseil de goûter le charme d’être au monde
Cependant qu’on est jeune et que le soir est beau,
Car nous nous en allons, comme s’en va cette onde:
Elle à la mer, nous au tombeau.

English translation
When streams turn pink in the setting sun,
And a slight shudder rushes through the wheat fields,
A plea for happiness seems to rise out of all things
And it climbs up towards the troubled heart.
A plea to relish the charm of life
While there is youth and the evening is fair,
For we pass away, as the wave passes:

The wave to the sea, we to the grave.

Humanitarian Aid Knows No Boundaries

November 26, 2012 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

You can make a difference! Each National Society works with and through its volunteers in a variety of service areas, depending on the needs of their communities. These activities can include tackling challenges such as migration, violence in communities, health challenges including HIV and AIDS to name but a few. You can make a difference in the lives of those in your community who are of the greatest need — volunteer, get involved! Find out more, click here: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Healing the World, One Act of Compassionate Service at a Time

Get involved. Give aid and bring relief to the ones who struggle in your own community and/or in other parts of the world. Putting together hygiene kits for those in need can be a very rewarding experience for families, groups and individuals. So get your family members and friends to help you, and show them how they can make a difference by assembling various humanitarian aid kits.

I spent about $10 for one kit.

Hygiene kits are always needed. Here is a list of supplies:

2 unbreakable combs without sharp handles
4 toothbrushes (sealed)
1 tube of toothpaste (6-8 ounces, no pumps)
2 bars of soap (3.5-5 ounces each)
2 hand towels* (approximately 15×25 inches) Dishtowels and washcloths are not acceptable.
*If sewing towels, use terry cloth and serge or zigzag edges to prevent fraying.
Place these items in a heavy-duty, one-gallon sealable/ziplock bag.
Remove the air before sealing.

These kits are distributed to schools, homeless shelters, medical centers, orphanages, and disaster areas around the world.
To view the lists for the school kit and newborn kit and find out where to send your assembled kits, read the LDS Humanitarian Center guidelines for donations.

Other organizations will send your kits abroad but they ask for a fee to process the shipment, visit Church World Service to find out more…

Also contact homeless shelters, schools and orphanages in your community to find out what kits they may need.

LeScintilla☀

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

~Albert Schweitzer

A love Poem Read by LeScintilla

November 25, 2012 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

Translation by LeScintilla

I’ve loved you despite myself
Entwined with your being, in a swirl of disquiet and dizziness
I didn’t want to say, “I love you”
Out of fear of seeing you disappear like a leaf wrenched from its stem
Nevertheless, I love you until my heart screams
Until I lose my breath each time you distance yourself and leave a void

I have loved you hidden behind the curtains of night
My childish glances followed your every step
My eyes drank the words you would not speak to me
Your words. . . that the light emanating from you wrote on the scrolls of shadows
Your words . . . like fiery stars
Shooting from the dark night to light my way
Your words . . . that you sowed from page to page
In the book of our destinies
And I locked my heart away
So it could not follow your path
But . . . my heart is rebellious
It dances with your words, so soft and so powerful
Clings to its emerging dreams
And today, it wants to speak to you
I love you as one loves a dream hung from moonbeams
I love you as one loves a spring on the rippled slopes of dunes
I love you like the majestic eagle loves to soar and be free
I love you with strength and passion as only tigers know to love

And even if the future is unsure, I want to love you forever
I will love you with all my hope, quivering with impatience
I will love you to the depths of your soul, to the enigma of your silence
I will love you until the desperate need to chant your absence,
Until the fragile confession of an invisible secret

I will love you…..

Life’s Battles~Les Choses de la Vie ~ A Video Montage by LeScintilla

November 25, 2012 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

Music by Philippe Sarde

Video footage:
Nick Vujicic – “Something More” Music Video
Mormon Messages videos

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

~Jean De La Bruyere

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt~

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.”

~Unknown~

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
~Michael Jordan~

“You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.”

~Anonymous

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”

~Confucius

“Opportunity’s favorite disguise is trouble.”

~Frank Tyger

“People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.”

~Stedman Graham

A Ripple of Hope ~ A Video Montage by LeScintilla

November 25, 2012 by isabeaulescintilla | Leave a comment

At times you may feel helpless in the face of blatant injustices in our world which are oftentimes brought upon by seemingly out of control technological powers and limitless corporate and political greed–men who try to play God but forget they are only men. In the face of adversity, you must not fear, but instead believe that within you lies the power to make a difference in the world. Your courage to fight for the rights of all people will inspire and help others have hope and believe in themselves.

LeScintilla ☀

The hawk is called messenger, protector and visionary; it sees things others miss.

Water is a universal symbol of change that is why I chose to use is at the end.

This educational not- for profit video contains copyrighted material which has been reproduced under the “fair use” clause Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of US copyright law, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

~ Robert F. Kennedy