LIKE CLOCKWORK

Video editing:

Montag

Music:

M.I.S.T - Clockwork Ft. DRS

Movie:

The Gunhilde Maersk - 4K Time Lapse by Toby Smith

Few people know this, but there are no two ships alike in the world.

Every vessel is absolutely unique, custom-built to meet the exact needs and constraints of whoever ordered it — whether it’s a container ship, a bulk carrier, an oil tanker, a refrigerated cargo ship, a military vessel, an ocean liner, a cruise ship, or an expedition vessel.

And for these and many other reasons, when a ship is decommissioned and dismantled, it takes with it a huge part of the lives and history of the thousands of people who passed through it — captains and passengers, crew members and dock workers.

It’s a process that can take years before finally reaching its last stop: the eerie Ship Breaking Yards, or ship graveyards, usually on the beaches of India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

By a twist of fate, the only known ships that were almost identical were two of the three Olympic-Class ships built by the Irish shipyard Harland & Wolff, commissioned by the English White Star Line: the RMS Olympic and its much more famous younger brother, the RMS Titanic.

Marcus Intalex was also one of a kind — a giant already decommissioned from this life, but an artist like no other, leaving behind a legacy that can never be broken and his music has carried smiles and shattered hearts on dance floors all over the world.

Everything about a ship, from its construction to its operation and eventual retirement, is an insane yet fascinating logistical masterpiece that always needs to run like clockwork, so I took a stunning video of the container ship Gunhilde Maersk sailing from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, to Ningbo, China—unloading, loading, and setting off again and paired it with the massive Clockwork by Marcus Intalex and Lee Davenport.

Because ships and jungle music cross oceans, lives, and dreams so I called it, obviously, Like Clockwork.

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