Astronaut in a farm field "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering — and it’s all over much too soon." -Woody Allen Existential thoughts can accompany you while you’re all alone. One can easily switch off the context of time and space, and travel to the very mental fabric that keeps us in motion regardless of the fact that we are clinging on a hanging rock — a tiny spark in the midst of a vast, dark, endless, meaningless cosmos. I watched Annie Hall a few weeks ago, then I went on to look out for movie reviews — a usual ritual when I watch something I really like. I start with Roger Ebert, and then go to youtube and then starts my ride into the rabbit hole. A story junky, trying to connect an endless string of meaningless dots to tie it up and sum up a meta-story. As I went through the monologues, scenes, and interviews of Woody Allen, there’s a constant rumbling of existential mus...

Foggy Sunrise - Digital Painting on Photoshop

Digital Painting - Farm House Digital Painting - Farm House from the movie Interstellar. This iconic photo from the movie Interstellar captures the farmhouse that sits in the middle of a cornfield set in the not so distant future. A future where we humans have exhausted most of the natural resources, turning our planet to mere dust. I recently watched this documentary called 'One Strange Rock' hosted by Will Smith that explores a larger perspective of the earth through the eyes of 10 astronauts who have spent a total of more than 1000 days in space. It's an incredibly delightful docuseries I've come across in 2019. I'd recommend for anyone who wants to sit back and get bewildered by the wonders of the cosmos both on a microscopic & a macroscopic level. Peggy Whitson's story featured in the last episode of the documentary really got my admiration. She was born in the 60s and grew upon on a farm outside of the town of Beaconsfield, Iowa...