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A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest

Returning sunlight enters the dark woods; again shining on the green moss, above. Visit https://www.audible.com/jacobgeller or text 'jacobgeller' to 500 500 Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Buy Some Sweet Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller English Poetry Readings by VaatiVidya: https://twitter.com/VaatiVidya Tang Chinese Dialect Reconstruction and Reading by A.Z. Foreman: https://twitter.com/azforeman On Ghost of Tsushima’s Haikus: I Asked An Expert To Read My Ghost Of Tsushima Haiku. He Wasn’t Impressed: https://kotaku.com/i-asked-an-expert-to-read-my-ghost-of-tsushima-haiku-h-1844458633 Austin Walker on Ghost of Tsushima Haikus: https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1284018299496534018?s=20 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, Eliot Weinberger 1987 Miyamoto on Breath of the Wild's Innovations and Zelda's Future: https://youtu.be/6zjd4A5GDOo Shigeru Miyamoto’s 1999 GDC Keynote: https://youtu.be/a9DlhDRZ0yA Heterotopias 004, Featuring Rosa Carbo-Mascarell on Proteus: http://www.heterotopiaszine.com/004-2/ Games shown: Ghost of Tsushima, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Firewatch, Proteus, Marginalia, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, The Last of Us Part II, Red Dead Redemption 2, Contra, Adventure, Microsoft Flight Simulator Music used (chronologically): Idle Away From Mountains (Genshin Impact), The Prettiest Weed (Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery), Lost Woods, Riding at Night (Breath of the Wild), Coasting (Transistor), Winding River (Genshin Impact), Epilogue (Shadow of the Colossus), Forest (The Last Guardian), It Can’t Last (The Last of Us Part II), Marginalia Ambiance (Marginalia), Thorofare Hike (Firewatch), Outlaws From The West (The Last of Us Part II), Tsushima Suite V- Seiiki (Ghost of Tsushima), Rito Suite (Breath of the Wild), Ol’ Shoshone (Firewatch) Thumbnail Design by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Additional Game Footage provided by: Bound, Draz, Razbuten, GameFootageArchive Sound Effects by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator

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Anonymous

Marvelous, magnificent. There's good meditation here; loved having this as a break in the midst of my work day. The Vibes are just so tastygood.

Anonymous

Beautiful.

Eric Trapp

Oh this about to be real good.

Anonymous

I think you're the only creator who knows how to get me to stick around for the ad read: puppy.

ILikeYarnAlot

The Jim Guthrie song near the beginning is much appreciated.

Eyyy J

Beautiful as always!

Nestor Custodio

I was blown away by not only the number of video game depictions of woods that you included, but also by how many more there could've been. Never really stopped to consider how ubiquitous forested areas are in gaming.

The Sunroses

beautiful and thoughtful work as always 💖

Angel

This one makes me so emotional and idk why. halp. Awesome work, Jacob!

Anonymous

I just absolutely knew this essay was going to end on Ol' Shoshone

Anonymous

Might be one of your best. Nice work :)

Anonymous

i absolutely love when you talk about environments and atmosphere, so this was perfect for me. loved it :)

Anonymous

Totally slick!

Anonymous

Nearly 2 months later and this video is...well...something I think about a lot