Gravity Glue 2016
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- 6th edition of my annual Gravity Glue series...
Showing video highlights from my recent year (2016) of balancing rocks in a variety of locations around the world, including: USA, Croatia, China, Turkey, New Zealand, Spain, and Iceland.
Nomadic Earth Art..?
All structures were balanced with my two hands, documented, then taken down when finished. . .
Each structure took maybe an average of 3 hours to complete? including finding rocks, and puzzle solving toward a 'beautiful and elegant solution'. some take minutes. others, days of contemplation, sometimes frustration, and/or simply feeling through the zero points.
The most intriguing aspect for me is the variety of stone families around the world. fractal style. a whole climate system may have a similar thread of rock families, but within that climate, each creek, each cove, becomes distinct from the rest. even down to smaller nooks and pockets in each. infinite complexity -- infinite possibility.
There's not really any storyline, plot, or whatever to this film..as usual. it is simply a sequence of some favorite clips i recorded while balancing as a way of life...
Stone Balance | Video | Mixing
by Michael Grab
gravityglue.com
All Rights Reserved
*MUSIC:
Track 1 (intro):
Title: Leaves (intro)
Artist: Data
Label: Tempa (044), 12" -- 45rpm
tempa.co.uk/
Track 2:
Title: Whomi
Artist: Tipper
tippermusic.net/
Words:
Alan Watts
en.wikipedia.or...
*I do not own any rights to the music. If requested by the owner, I will remove the video.
...Field Sounds/Mixing by Michael Grab
Love the birds at 2:00 staring in absolute awe.
Michael I do not know how to express how impressed I am by your unique creativity..
You have a special imprint in this art ... all my respect for you
Mesmerizing !! Wonderful.
Beautifully Crafted video. Awesome
👍Aaaah...Alan Watts rock balancing
....the perfect match...I knew I loved you before I ever met you. Absolutely awesome! Thank you for the blessing. 🤗💞🤗
I just now saw this rock stacking art on Ripley's new show. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced. Absolutely Amazing.
Love it. I had a great day with my father trying rock balancing after we were inspired by your videos.
IAmaPersion yes lots of animals do in fact but many people can’t rock balance or even know about rich balancing so that is a good thing!
The moment when the body takes over and the hands just move away and the rock are standing , is an awesome feeling
You must be a real master, considering the enormous spinning of the earth.
My favorite time of the year! Gravity Glue time!
..Сложность невероятная .А природа помогает создавать ещё более утонченную красоту...
Master Piece ~ you are a Rockstar
Easily my favourite video of the year so far
Hypnotizing! I love every thing about it.
Simply amazing. Michael as I watch your videos I ask myself how evident it is that "balance" is merely temporal. Outstanding videography and editing. The art you deliver is just screaming at me......cant explain.... I love it.
Thanks Michael...
My family and I enjoyed every minute of this video and my kids are a tough sell. The rock art was spectacular but the video/audio work was fantastic. Nice work!
Congrats on your work, man. I saw your videos and started trying to do something around a place I have in the mountains. I posted a few pics of what I was able do on my IG. That's a really beautiful kind of therapy to cut the stress. Again, congrats!
this video deserves millions of views
3:56 I love stacking stones it's realy good for the soul and just to be at one with your self
Beyond Awesome - 'Awesomating'.... That's AWESOMATING
Magnifique avec une patience hors norme.....Bravo..... ;-)
WOW, ARTE EFIMERO CRAK....Hasta los pajaros admiran tus obras..gracias Kam.peon
Great video and great song.
Beautiful love your art so peaceful
I don't k ow what to say now, I will be in touch as these rocks are my passion~💫
Beautiful!
Hi guy, you make a remarcable work and I really appreciate this moment of calm on your structure at the end, maybe should you put a format like this of many structures
absolutely stunning !!
Brilliant. Inspiring me to try. 🙏
I enjoyed the video. Thank You
incredible patience to be careful to balance these stones ... especially on a ball that spins more than eight hundred and one hundred kilometers an hour
WONDERFUL AND AMAZING ✨✨✨
I love your incorporation of Alan Watts
I'd definitely buy a calendar if you made one!
@2:01 even the bird is amazed!!! 😍💞
That sparrow could have been crushed under that balancing rock pile dude !
Amazing!!
This is amazing
outstanding!
We watched you in school and everyone was like wow he must have a lot of great skills wow
I love your art work sir 🙏🏼
this rock stacking is very addictive...you wont be able to go anywhere without thinking about stacking every rock you see!
awesome,gota do this.
So cool!
Bonjour, très belle vidéo😍 peut-on copier le lien pour partager ?😉
HOW DO YOU DO THIS? Is there any gathering, eliminating, any trying again to it? How did you start doing this? As a little boy, what?! Amazing to watch! More people should see this!
The rubber ducky around?
Welp... see you again in another 2 years.
or look somewhere other than youtube . .
Good movie
99% of these I look at and go "how the heck is this possible"
I need to ask 🙃 why take them down again?
Beautiful video and art 🙂
Namaste 🏵️
2:00 the birds are like holy shit !!
神奇!!
love this.. just wondering if wet rocks is a benefit in anyway?
i was wondering the same thing.
Wich craft
why do you take them down afterwards?
at least they fall down naturally
several reasons...
1: if i leave it up, it feels like a "loose end", i prefer to dismantle myself. i prefer to know how it collapses, etc..
2: depending on location can be a safety concern (curious humans/kids).
3: leave no trace.
4: to limit photographic access/copyright to my camera (in general).
these reasons fluctuate depending on location... some places i just leave everything up cuz the spot is already so inaccessible to mini humans.. also simply to leave random notes of magic for the next.. i usually only leave them if they are completely self-erasing upon collapse... or if i know the tide will take em over night... not a fan of old stumps of rocks left behind...
+ protecting animals who at some places living on those stones
Очень сложные конструкции. В них красота с элементами страха
how long did it take you to do one of these?
why do you take them down? legal issues?
wasn't it you that some jackass cop tried to arrest for rock stacking, years ago?
freakin idiots man. your work is stunningly gorgeous, and i think it would be an absolute THRILL to randomly come across whilst out hiking
thanks!.. depends on the location for when and why i take em down.. sometimes near people traffic.... can be a safety issue.. and/or photographic copyright issue in tourist areas. also simply to minimize footprint. i enjoy knowing how they collapse... closing the loop.. in rare cases and locations i leave them be. ya it was me and cops in boulder, almost exactly 2 years ago.
3:34
midichlorians
impossible
fuck. you haven't posted anything for two years and now you upload 12 videos in one day... dose!
Modern artist could learn a thing or 2 from people balancing stones a dot or a single line is not art balancing stones is
FORBAN !
3 people unlike, idk why
Jealous
and we want to make us believe that the earth turns at 1680 klm hour..... Flat Earth
3:56 I love stacking stones it's realy good for the soul and just to be at one with your self
Beautiful!