Help me find nature or ambient videos to occupy unused displays?

February 4, 2007 5:37 PM

In W Hotels and some sushi spots I frequent, on the video screens, I see some "ambient" scenery (I guess from DVD). These are things like videos from forest scenes or videos of water or other computer/color visualizations set to music or completely silent. Can the hive point me in the direction of either forest/nature videos or ambient "visualization" videos?
posted by arimathea to media & arts (9 comments total)

Start here. Veer has a lots of links to motion merch you can use in a commercial environment and can put on a loop with a special DVD or VHS player.
posted by parmanparman at 5:58 PM on February 4, 2007

try grasscollective.com.

I have their rivers of light dvd, which is amazing in the dark on a flatpanel.

their lava red light and sea and sky look good to me.
posted by krautland at 6:03 PM on February 4, 2007

The Windham Hill DVDs have that kind of video.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 6:09 PM on February 4, 2007

The veer stuff is great, but this is purely for noncommercial use.
posted by arimathea at 6:28 PM on February 4, 2007

Ursi's other blog Eso Garden has these from time to time.
posted by hortense at 7:16 PM on February 4, 2007

Brian Eno makes a few "ambient videos". This Amazon link also has links to other similar products.
posted by extrabox at 7:21 PM on February 4, 2007

Ooh krautland beat me to it. Seconding grass collective, they have some cool nature-y stuff as well as the awesome rivers of light.
posted by Joh at 7:40 PM on February 4, 2007

I enjoy ambient video, and tend to use documentaries for the purpose. Baraka is beautiful, but I find the supplied soundtrack pretentious. The Living Sea has fantastic underwater footage.
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 8:02 PM on February 4, 2007

How about At War With Baraka, if you don't mind (or if you're like Tacos, prefer) an alternative soundtrack to the original? It's download-able right away as an added bonus.
posted by chimmyc at 8:36 PM on February 4, 2007