Sorrow in a song.

Wollongong resident Michaela Werner on freediving off Shellharbour. Michaela talks about  coming up for a breath after a 2 minute dive.

From ABC’s Moment behind the Photo

Liverpool band ‘Dead Cities‘ formed in late 2008 and a brief 3 years later they release their debut album THIS KILLER WAVE. Click to the player below for some of their folk-rock from the album. Click the player along to track#5 for the titletrack… smooth and soulful stuff if you bear being without the wall of sound.

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Animation: Sarah Vince
Music: Lennert Busch
Sounddesign: Mauricio d’Orey
Mezzo soprano: Annabelle Pangborn

…The world was void,
The populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless,
A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay.
The rivers, lakes, and ocean stood still,
And nothing stirred within their silent depths;
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp’d
They slept on the abyss without a surge
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon their mistress had expired before;
The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them. She was the universe.

Darkness by Lord Byron

Photo: Atlantic Ocean Waves. Photographer Dapixara