Wanderers - A Short Film By Erik Wernquist

A friend of mine who is fascinated by space and science posted this short film on my Facebook page. It's not your typical travel video, since all the scenes are fake, but it does inspire me. Again, a beautifully shot video with an inspirational voice over and I'm a goner.

Number 61 on my Bucket List is "Go to space"; I know this may seem a little unrealistic, but I kind of don't care. I really want to go to space. How cool would that be? Like, super cool, thats how cool. We are advancing so rapidly, I think its only a matter of time before we get there. Whether its through necessity or want, sooner or later we are going to expand to the rest of this universe. Sometimes being a wanderer means going somewhere uncharted. Space is full of exploration possibilities. I'm looking forward to when we have the opportunity to investigate it further.

Although the images are fake, the film is based off of scientific ideas. All the locations are places in space recreated based on real photos and map data. Its amazing the amount of thought went into this video. If you are interested in the places depicted, take a gander at the gallery section, it has additional information explaining what you are seeing.

Since this isn't really a reality right now, enjoy the video and dream of the next phase of exploration. If you want to check out a High-Def version of this video check it out here. Also check out Erik Wernquist's site, this guy is an astonishingly talented digital artist and you should check out more of his stuff.

So if you had to explore space where would you want to go? A Black Hole? The Sun? Mars? Take your pick and let me know in the comments down below.

Greetings From... Barbados

As a Postcrosser in an 'Exotic' location I get a lot of requests for private swaps. People trying to complete collections from around the world seems to be way more common than you would think.

I don't generally do private swaps but every once in a while I'll get really compelling requests and I can't help but agree to send a postcard. I've gotten ever type of request from travelers making a project for their children to teach them about the world, to terminally ill people trying to make their birthdays special. This site has a way of connecting people who love to collect information about the world even if they can't travel themselves.

One private request I get regularly is for "Greetings From..." cards. For a while I didn't understand what it was about. In the beginning I thought they just wanted a card saying "Greetings From Barbados." However, one of my friends enlightened me that there is a Greetings From Series on postallove.com of different countries, which they are trying to collect. What postcrossers try to do is get cards sent to them from their respective countries. The cards are lovely and some of the locations are fairly random so it looks like it can get fairly difficult.

I'm getting more and more interested. I think I'm going to send myself cards from the countries that I've visited instead of just asking people to send me cards. Although I see the appeal of needing a full collection.

If you want to check out the series go here. Just know it is kind of addictive and you will want to collect them all.

Loving Lanka

I love me a beautifully shot travel video with an inspirational voice over. And this video does not disappoint. It's gorgeous, and there is some interesting talk about time. Not gonna lie, I don't understand everything said, but its pretty and it feels inspirational, so it works.

Regardless, theres a pretty great story behind this video. Dude (Sebastian Linda), quits his job, got married, then moves to Sri Lanka. That's incredible. What he's seen and the art he's created with his camera makes me jealous. I don't really know much more than that, but it seems to have been worth it.

Take a gander at Sebastian's YouTube page. For how stunning his videos are, I'm surprised by how few views he has, but you can fix that right now by watching all his videos on repeat for 3 days straight.

Anyhow, do you guys have anything you appreciate for it's beauty but are aware that you don't fully understand everything about it? If so, let me know what that thing is in the comments down below.

Bucket Lists

Now that you've watched Morgan Freeman explain what a Bucket List is; I should let you know that I love Bucket Lists.

I actually forgot I made a Bucket List from when I was like 13 or 14 then I found it and I was like, 'Hey, this is a good place to start but maybe put stuff on there that someone older than 13 would want to do.' So then I started adding to it, and from that the Ever Growing Bucket List was created. Pretty much every year on my birthday I add 5 more things to the list. They range from big long term impractical goals, to small things I could probably achieve tomorrow. For example,

30. Learn 3 other languages.

56. TP a house.

61. Go to Space.

Bucket Lists are good because they can focus your life. A list of things you should be doing with your life. They may not necessarily make your life better, or you may not get the experience you thought you would get. But at some point you thought this thing was important enough for you to say I want to do that with my life. My Bucket List, keeps me grounded. Sometimes when I'm feeling lost, I look at it and it reminds me of what I should be doing. Travel is a huge part of that since, most of the items are just things I need to go and see. From what I gather most people have at least one travel item on their list, and I think thats because travel is such a huge life goal; everyone knows they should probably be doing more of it.

Seeing someones Bucket List also gives you a good understanding of a person's inner-thinkings. This guy (Matt Bray), actually has a great bucket list and is recording most of his accomplishments on his YouTube channel, ProjectOneLife. You may remember him from my post on 100 Days of Dance. Its pretty epic and throughly enjoy watching this guy just live life.

Also, there was a pretty spectacular teenager by the name of Rebecca Draper Townsend who was in the news for pushing her friend out of the way of a truck, saving her friend's life. Her bucket list was short and sweet.

• Kiss in the rain.
• Fly to Spain.
• Save a life.

I don't think she had any idea of what that meant to write, but I'm impressed by her story and her balls to follow through. Check out more of Rebecca's story here in this SourceFed article, and for more check out the Facebook Community growing around her story.

On that note, do you have a Bucket List? If so, whats on it? Not that I'm being nosey, I'm just interested in what you plan on accomplishing by yourself. Because number 23 should definitely be Finish an XL Pizza alone.

Movember 2015

Usually the first post for every month here at Life From The Shore is a photo post, but November is different. Its Movember, baby! Every November I shed my facial hair for Prostate Cancer. 

The Rules are simple

Rule One: Register at movemeber.com. Then begin on the 1st on November with a clean shaven face.

Rule Two: Grow and Groom your mustache for the entire month.

Rule Three: No Beards. No Goatees. No Fake Mustaches. Have some class.

Rule Four: Use the divine power of your Mustache to start conversations about Men's Health and Raise Funds.

Rule Five: Each Mo Bro must conduct himself like a true gentleman.

There you have it. Thats all it takes to support men's health and to raise funds for Prostate Cancer. Its a great cause. And it doesn't hurt to spice up November either. If you'd like to start a campaign go to movember.com. And if you would like to support my campaign, skip on over to http://mobro.co/j.chofooklun.