I just escaped from an insane youtube wormhole! I thought that I was into watching time lapse videos of food rotting, but then I saw time lapse videos of food rotting in reverse and now I know what I’m really into. Watching fruit mold and decay was disgusting and scary, but watching it rejuvenate and come back to life as delicious zombies let me pretend for a few brief moments that we aren’t all rapidly hurtling to the grave, that life isn’t just a slow decay.
Watching fruit go from repellant rot to colorful life in a matter of seconds reminds me of Bryan Fuller’s dearly departed television program Pushing Daisies–a “cancelled too soon” series about a pie-maker(Lee Pace) who can reanimate the dead with his touch. The Pie-maker keeps a closet of rotting fruit that he turns “alive again” before baking. It’s really the most clever and whimsical show of all time and anyone who hasn’t watched it yet is in for a treat.
There’s something so hauntingly beautiful about time lapse. Technology is capable of speeding up, slowing down, reversing and bending time–these short clips show a life inverted…what could be if only life went backwards. Movie magic!
Anyway, everyone we love is going to die one day–enjoy these videos of fruits doing their best Benjamin Button while you still can:
Zombie Strawberries:
Zombie Watermelon:
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