* According to my pal Jeff Curry
The Matchbox® toy look of these trucks and the simplified colors had me gawping and I kept wondering how they managed to get so much detail into the tiny set, even as I fully understood that this was a fake miniature.
If my Canon 5d MkII ever arrives (I ordered it three months ago), I’m going to have to try shooting some tilt-shift footage, perhaps at an SCCA race, perhaps at a horse show…
“Less than 500 people live in the town of Rutland, OH, but hundreds more migrate in and out of its borders every year to visit one 88-acre farm called Skatopia. Aside from being one of the most well known backyard skate parks in the world, Skatopia is a somewhat warped version of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland, with people of all ages coming to “experience” the fringe culture that has developed there, fueled by binge drinking, light drug use, casual sex, and rampant destruction of cars or property of any kind. Although “88 acres of anarchy” is the skate park slogan, it functions more like a cooperative dictatorship, according to farm owner, Brewce Martin. The gates are open all of the time as people generally filter in and out at their own will. Some camp out for a weekend, others build cabins from scraps and stay for a year; just about everyone raises hell.”
A mashup between random music and random images results in an oddly compelling and kind of scary A/V art piece. It really illustrates how much of an effect music has on the perception of images. It changes mood and even one’s sense of time. Try it with the sound off for a totally different feel.
Clever social commentary v.s. reality. Gee, I wonder which will win?
But you have to turn the color management switch on. Read all about it on Rob Galbraith’s site.
More than 800,000 frames from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope were stitched together to create this infrared portrait of dust and stars radiating in the inner Milky Way. Individual full-res frames are available on the website. 800,000 frames were stitched together. Oy.
In-situ animation. Quite amazing.
The sky over our house was quite dramatic yesterday.
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