Asks NASA: “Do you recognize this intriguing globular cluster of stars?”
“It’s actually the constellation of city lights surrounding London, England, planet Earth, as recorded with a digital camera from the International Space Station. Taken in February 2003, north is toward the top and slightly left in this nighttime view…”

Now, let’s go into the city of London with this remarkable video:

Says the man who shot the video:

A journey through London on the Sunday [December 11, 2005] evening after the massive fire at the Buncefield fuel depot. The skies were heavy with thick black cloud.

Music courtesy of Eurythmics’ This City Never Sleeps’ from the Sweet Dreams album. (less)

Now, listen to the lyrics of “This City Never Sleeps”:

You can hear the sound
Of the underground trains
You know it feels like distant thunder

You know there’s so many people
Living in this house
And don’t even know their names

I guess it’s just a feeling - in the city)

Walls so thin I can almost
Hear them breathing
And if I listen in
I feel my own heart beating

(I guess it’s just a feeling - in the city)

The song is about hearing the city. The city is heard as the distant thunder of a train, the breathing of others, and beat of one’s own heart. We hear the machine of the city, the people of the city, and the self in the city.