Short caption of why I speak Swedish on the title:
At the Museum of Technology in Stockholm there is a display, where a faucet is hanging from mid-air by a rope. And water is pouring from it. There is no obvious way of water getting into the faucet, since it's hanging from mid-air. The display is called "Bara vanliga vatten", or "Just ordinary water". This happened about 20 years ago, and I'm still facinated by it (although I figured out the answer quite fast). The following is from same facination to flowing water.
 
Now to the point:
I took and uploaded a couple of videos here [EDIT: Link removed. Looks like I was caught]. They are huge, please download them to your computer first, do no try to view them online.
They were taken upstream from Kyuushi no Take waterfall between Nobeyama and Kiyosato. In short, they are close-ups of water flowing around fixed points (...you know, rocks).
 
As is, they might be boring, so I'll explain. The imagery has the highest Zen value to me. They are my screensavers. I start one in infinite loop and make it full screen. Then, when I need a rest from my books, I raise my eyes to a view of water flowing. Sometimes I stare at them for several minutes, just looking at the light playing on the surface of water, or the mass of water running past fixed rocks, or the waves forming and evading rocks well before they're even close to them. My secondary desktop computer has only this duty (because it's connected to a 21" 4:3 flat plasma screen monitor instead of my laptop's 15" widescreen monitor, where they're not so pretty).
 
I have several of them, but these two are the only ones that I found net space for you to see. And unfortunately, even these will vanish sometimes January, when the admins notice that I am no longer a student at Turku University. I have better videoclips, but nowhere to put them. Gomen ne.  My choice of facination makes it easy to create endless loops easily, but the loop jump is still visible. I would need to edit the end frame to resemble the beginning frame so that the loop jump would not be so obvious. I have even 60 second clips to reduce the chance of noticing the jump, but I'd rather edit to make the file size smaller. That would rid me of the vibrations from pressing the shutter button, also. But I have no idea of a Linux program for editing AVI's. I'll have to check if my camera can make uncompressed formats.
 
Also buying a longer tripod would be nice, for higher points of view (the play of light on the surface of water depends heavily on the viewing angle). And High Definition Widescreen video camera, but I ain't buying one just for this. And a video projector to project it to my wall.  
 
Anyway, Please check them out and tell me what you think of my video screensaver!  

Quote from Ai on Dec 17^th, 2007, 6:42am:

I... think so. Or rather hope.  
I did have to wade through considerable amounts of snow to get there, but it was spring on the south side of the mountains. Go figure.  
 
Quote from Ai on Dec 17^th, 2007, 6:42am:

Uuh, I'm glad you like it because I meant to warn to turn off your sound. I didn't think the huge noise is quite suitable, but like I said, I'm glad you like it.  
 
Quote from Ai on Dec 17^th, 2007, 6:42am:

Ahh, heh, sorry. They are quite manual screensavers.

Now, that was interesting.
At first when I read the topic I was like, water??
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Quote from Jacke on Dec 29^th, 2007, 2:46am:

Eh? Vatten is... no, wait! Yes, vanlig-... no, it's vanligt... IT'S NOT IMPORTANT!!!  
 
Quote from Jacke on Dec 29^th, 2007, 2:46am:

Some screensavers are not for the purpose of resting pixels. Besides, black christmas eve means "turn off the power instead!"  
 
No connection whatsoever, but I decided to buy a Sony Vaio. I don't need one, but it's cute! I want something with a 12" widescreen (or less if possible) and a body to go with. My still quite usable laptop is a 15" widescreen power hungry monolith. I got the impulse at 100Yen shop, where they sell these ridiculously small "laptop bags". Then I saw one of those "ridiculously small laptops". Chou kawaii!!  

Well, dropped the Vaio. Performance drops sharply with screen size. And the price isn't right.
 
Instead, I bought a Hewlett Packard tablet PC (64-bit 1.9GHz Athlon X2, 2Gb ram). Its 12" touch screen revolves 180 degrees and it has separate control buttons for DVD player. It's really cute! Manly cute, unfortunately, but black/silver is fine by me, compared to it's 100 000 yen (about 600 euros) price tag (Tsukumo in Akihabara).
 
And then the descent from heaven: install anything else than the pre-installed 32-bit m$ crappitycrap vista and the hardware guarantee is void. What the hell?!? What happened to free market? It took me little more than a week to install real OS (trying Suse this time) on a virtual machine (thus preserving the guarantee), but I've been in such a bad mood for using windows! Simple tasks take hours to complete the right way instead of the "windows certified" (windows certainly is certifiable) way. An OS that can't even make a simple postscript is no OS.  
 
Japanese keyboard doesn't really bother me, I installed Finnish one also and I remember it still. Movies don't lag even in battery mode, which is kind of a moot point since the battery only has a few hours in it anyway. Also the screen is not very bright because it is a touch screen. But I still love it (now that it has been reborn as a real tool!).
 
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Man, the numbers mixed with letters are really pretty, with variable size and position! Is that from the font? What font is that?