"Marek Reavis" wrote: When I lived in Davis there were a few people I met who hunted with hawks and it was not only fascinating to watch but I envied their relationship with such fine and regal beings. >
Marek, Hey, I liked your smacking Nab for his gratuitous besmirching of Curtis, but . . . I call you to take wing into meta-thinking. We see ourselves thrilled to ride the back of a hawk -- to imagine the POV of such a mind that can so effortlessly be a prince of a realm we can but dimly conceive. The thrill is palpable. Yet, miss not, that a hawk is a world class killer despite its status as a Lord of the Clouds. Nor would the thrill be diminished if we had a camera riding the shoulder of any being out there. Put me in the world of an ant or elephant, and I'm mesmerized. But, as I wrote above, but . . . Isn't Nab just such a thrill ride? Isn't he soaring over landscapes only he knows as only he can? Is he not a winged prince of his POV? Isn't each post of his a looksee from a "camera" on his shoulder? Do we not voyeur his strange ways, his strategies for mastering his alien world, his deep idiosynchronicity, his hunt? Surely, we, who pride ourselves that we've been able to peer into the eyes of the most feral of minds and yet CONNECTED WITH THEM, might be served if we can de-giddy ourselves enough to see Nab as equally thrilling to ride. Why not, eh? Note that we are thrilled that we've vicariously been able to identify with a raptor -- a being that feels not the least concern when it attacks and eats a victim alive. Surely we can witness the POV of Nab with the same aplomb and brag of the adventure we've had by "riding one of his posts" in the same ways that we are comfortable with how we took wing with the hawk? This is a lesson in identification -- we we are able to witness the most heinous acts without feeling morally pinched for having done so. The witness cannot be burned, wetted or cleaved, eh? Just so, I call to all here to ride the back of Nab, thrill yourselves with the world he sees, the world in which he's capable of finding the FFL's mice that he finds so tasty to rip apart. See his landscapes, his realm and CONNECT with him and feel the same pride you'd feel if you camera-tandemed with a hawk. Isn't he simply adorable? Aren't we privileged to view his life? Isn't it thrilling to, safely from the comfort of our homes, CONNECT to him -- know him -- pretend to be him for a moment? Hey, in the future, what with technology knocking our socks off every day, it won't be long before we can voyeur any moment in history. Take a ride on Hitler's shoulder as he processes six million Jews into greasy smoke. Um, did I go too far with that? No I didn't. All of us are identifying with POVs that would shudder a Sat Yugan's mind to a halt. We're all little alien hitlerettes who think we know when it is proper to kill and eat. Ask a feedlot steer if it has a view of us that is not unlike a mouse's view of a hawk or a Jew's view of a Nazi. Ask any angel about a Kali Yugan's mind. We're so comfortable in a world of hurt when we're not hurting -- yet. Identity -- it is a bell tolling -- a pealing tone that calls us to witness our own soaring adventures over our inner landscapes and shudder. Shudder that we filter out most incoming data, and with precise visioning are able to find our brand of mice, and, in doing so, we miss most of reality as much as Nab misses when he's targeting his furry meals. What a piece of work is man . . . Edg > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@ wrote: > > > > Hey Marek, thanks for the hawk cam! I like to watch the variuos hawking and falconry videos on you tube. I hadn't seen the one you sent before. > > > > --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: > > > > From: Marek Reavis reavismarek@ > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hawk Cam > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 12:21 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Turq, thanks. My main source for cool stuff on the net is Neatorama.com. They do the web surfing so you don't have to. I check them every morning to see what cool stuff is out there. > > > > The hawk cam was a bit disorienting but that final swoop down to the gloved hand was really fine. > > > > Marek > > > > ** > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@ .> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@ > wrote: > > > > > > > > A small videocam strapped to a hawk. Almost 8 minutes > > > > long. The final swoop and dive hits the spot. > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=APViUODDhT0 > > > > > > You find just the *best* videos, dude. > > > > > > I once wrote a story that featured a hawk > > > named Garuda who did aerobatics for fun. > > > Now I know what it would have looked like > > > from his point of view. > > > > > >
