Location Taken: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Time Taken: October 2012
Ok, if at all possible, listen to Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemaya while staring at this photo. They go together surprisingly well, to put it mildly.
Though that might just be because this is a photo that pairs well with epic music. It goes fairly well with Night on Bald Mountain as well, if not quite as well as with Sensemaya.
I’m not sure quite how to describe what I think of as epic music, even though it’s one of my favorite musical types. Easiest way is that it’s the type of music you’d put behind an epic scene in a game or movie, but that doesn’t get to the heart of what “epic” is. Something to do with adventures and high levels of danger, with a spice of mystery and intrigue.
It was in a game that I discovered Sensemaya, though. But not in any sort of epic context, alas. Civilization 5 has you lead a civilization through history, from the settling of the first city to modern days and beyond. It’s all Earth civilizations, and it follows the technological path we humans took, so there’s some heavy historical elements just in the gameplay. They add to that by including Great Persons, special units with special powers named after great figures in history, like Alexander Graham Bell, Spartacus, and Steve Jobs. The Great Artists, Musicians, and Writers all have an ability that gives you a boost to your Tourism stat – and shows or plays an example of their work. Sensemaya’s clip, even at just 10 seconds long, was enough to catch my interest and lead me to looking up the full thing.
Which I was listening to when I was starting to look through photos. I love it when blog topics just present themselves to me.
