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One Moment of Perfect Beauty - The Interloper's Shadow

I love a stormy sunset.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - The Arc of Heaven

STS-128 lifts off

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Queenstown Water

Queenstown, NZ via my friend, Julia Voye.

Mauzy Morning as a Picture

In case you were wondering what a mauzy morning might look like, Flickr user Greg from Maine captured this beautiful shot of a scallop dragger at mooring as the sun rises.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Spring Melt

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Rokia Traore: Dounia

Malian singer-guitartist Rokia Traore performing the first single from her latest album Tchamantché.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Taking Flight

Found via Black Pearls of the Internetzzz.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Join the Social

I first saw this over on Boing Boing Gadgets this morning, only to see it featured on Ectomo later this afternoon.  However, since I know the few of you who do read my blog probably don't read those sites (and more's the pity, really) I decided to post it here as well.

When I first had the idea for my One Moment of Perfect Beauty category, I envisioned posting anything and everything that to me encapsulates just that.  The definition of what a "moment" is being very elastic, I wanted to be able to post songs; poems; pictures; or even video clips such as the one below.

WARNING!  Video is mildly NSFW!!

Zune Paint from Sibling Rivalry on Vimeo.

And yes, I do think it is beautiful.  

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Loving her Was Easier

A song written by Kris Kristofferson, my favorite version is off of Waylon Jennings' Waylon Live album.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Music is Math

Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

Found via MAKE: Blog.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Mt. Timpanogos

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Hand in Hand

I dare you- any of the three of you! - to watch this an not be moved.

Found via Ectoplasmosis.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Double Rainbow Over My House

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Sunset Over Salt Lake City

Taken on July 13t,h at 9:54 pm MDT.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Low Hanging Clouds

 

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Bumblebee

My nephew's first Halloween, 2004.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Langkawi Island

Another one by Stuck In Customs.  Dear god, this man is a genius with a camera.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Sunset on Naples

My new desktop wallpaper.  Found in Stuck In Customs' Flickr stream.  Click for full effect.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Summer Rain in Alta

If it seems as though Little Cottonwood Canyon and Alta dominate this series, it might simply be that they have given me so much beauty.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Coud I But Fly

Looking down into Little Cottonwood Canyon.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Moose

Taken outside the apartment in Alta where I was staying last summer.

One Moment of Perfect Beauty - Maestro

Ah, the wonders of post scheduling.  I can now have posts go up at any point in the future, and you will never know when it was originally written!  Maniacal laughter should go here, but this isn't a mad science moment.

Onward!  This week's moment is titled "Maestro", and is from Zofia Szeretlek's Flickr stream.

Found via Ectomo.

New Weekly* Feature: One Moment of Perfect Beauty

I just finished watching Vienna Teng's live DVD, Live at the World Cafe, wherein several of her songs made me close my eyes and lose myself in the moment.  It also inspired me to try out a new weekly feature here at A Bureaucracy of One.

Actually, if successful, it will the first weekly feature.  Youtube is Eating My Brain could best be described as "semi-regular", and that's if we are being kind.

My goal with One Moment of Perfect Beauty is to present something that takes me away from the here and now, and transports me to a timeless place outside of everything.  It will be a song.  Or a video.  Maybe a painting.  Maybe a picture.

Whatever it is, my hope is that you will be transported, too.

Thus, it is only fitting that one of the songs that inspired me to do this feature is the first "moment of perfection".  Without further ado, I give you Vienna Teng's Green Island Serenade.  Just close your eyes and let Vienna's voice carry you to a place where a man sings to his beloved on an island across the sea.

*Hahahaha!  Oh man, I kill me!