This video makes me want many things. First and foremost, it makes me want the time and money to dabble in cinematography. I wish I knew how to get such crisp and yet lush scenery on film (or rather on a hard drive.) The technical aspect of the filming of this intrigues me as much as the artistic aspect of it. 

Second, this makes me think about childhood and wandering. It makes me wonder if I spent enough time wandering around alone as a child. I know that probably today its a good thing for kids to not walk around alone much, but I grew up in a place where it would have been fairly safe. I don’t have any particular memory of wandering like this as a child, which is odd because I do it so much now. Having had brothers, I probably never had much time alone, the inverse of the only child in his bedroom making up imaginary worlds of his own.

Also, I want to go to Iceland. I don’t know if this is indeed Iceland, but I can’t imagine it being anywhere else. It looks fucking gorgeous, and solitary and wonderful. Thats about what I want out of life right now, so I want to go to there.

Finally, I think I love it so much because music makes me feel like that little kid. When I throw headphones on with an album like Bon Iver, Bon Iver it feels like everybody kind of fades away and I’m wandering around some landscape of my very own. A landscape where I can skip rocks perfectly and sometimes when you throw something in the air it turns in to an amazing bird. 

Anyway, there will be a deluxe version of Bon Iver, Bon Iver out soon and it will have a video like this for each song. I certainly plan on buying it, as should you.