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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: ourmaninkorea on January 14, 2016, 02:34:42
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A recent photography/video experiment:
I collected some 2000 photographs taken by 25 people on a group tour in Iceland. I put the pictures (with EXIF data) on a scaled time line (1 minute for every day) and every photographer received a specific key on the piano.
"Steinway on the Rocks" or a "Rhapsody in Ice Blue". When listening with closed eyes to the piano, I relive the trip.
Video: https://vimeo.com/147293360
This is the making of: https://vimeo.com/145619857
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A very interesting experiment! And a refreshing way to show thousands of photographs ;)
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What a great idea!
It must have taken hours to edit and put all the pieces together!
Well done!
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Jakov: I know Willem for a long time. His works usually take days or weeks to assemble.
After watching it, it is to hectic for me. I had to watch the other two videos offered: a calm waterfall and a knife shooting
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It's a very interesting idea! For me personally it's too short display time for some of the images, but kudos for the work!
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The concept is intriguing and refreshing, for sure. However, but the disparity of image quality and style and the lack of a more coherent story line makes watching quite tiresome. A one-time viewing more than suffices ...
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This is a brilliant project! I like the moments where someone sees beautiful scenery and takes lots of pictures in a short period of time. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!
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The concept is intriguing and refreshing, for sure. However, but the disparity of image quality and style and the lack of a more coherent story line makes watching quite tiresome. A one-time viewing more than suffices ...
Maybe it would be interesting to use pictures taken during any NG gatherings?
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Could be done if somebody took the time and effort to write a story board *before* the Event.
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While a creative idea, a problem with the concept is that the best parts where a lot of images are captured by different photographers over a short time just pass by in an indiscernible blur, while the more boring parts where an image is only shot now and then are shown for a long time.
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well done on your project.
If it was an experiment - it means you are willing to make changes to it next time.
Thats why I do experiments. One seldom gets it 100% right the first time - so keep going.
My thoughts were that some of the images went by too quick - and transition could be more smooth.
Perhaps a more gentle tune also
but those are my thoughts and if it is not what you had in mind - its also okay
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My second though is that the technical or artistic quality of each image provided by the participant may not be critically important for this particular experiment/project. I don't think it is necessarily "a slide show" type of work. Rather it could be a time lapse of collective flow of thought of the individuals from different parts of the world in a certain time span.
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Agree to that notion. However, without any underlying story board such agglomerated exhibition easily tends to towards white noise.
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Willem: You might consider element like riterdando and accellerando to cope with the busy times of day...
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What a great idea!
It must have taken hours to edit and put all the pieces together!
Well done!
Thanks, Jakov, it took two weeks, actually ;-)
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Thanks Frank for watching! Notice that the Knives-video (https://vimeo.com/150988502) uses the music played by the orchestra of Icelandic Photographers. I have considered speeding up the night, and lengthening the day. Might do that next time!
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My second though is that the technical or artistic quality of each image provided by the participant may not be critically important for this particular experiment/project. I don't think it is necessarily "a slide show" type of work. Rather it could be a time lapse of collective flow of thought of the individuals from different parts of the world in a certain time span.
That is exactly right, Akira. The group serves as a kind of international visual Geiger counter. These icebergs cause a visual overload, bleaching out the video, I loved that! My favourite parts are the underexposed moments on the bus. Thanks for seeing this, Akira!
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Agree to that notion. However, without any underlying story board such agglomerated exhibition easily tends to towards white noise.
The storyboard was "written" by the travel agency that planned the itinerary. The video documents the movement of the group over Iceland, nothing more, nothing less. Thanks for your comments!
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well done on your project.
If it was an experiment - it means you are willing to make changes to it next time.
Thats why I do experiments. One seldom gets it 100% right the first time - so keep going.
My thoughts were that some of the images went by too quick - and transition could be more smooth.
Perhaps a more gentle tune also
but those are my thoughts and if it is not what you had in mind - its also okay
Thanks for your comment. In a future project I would not like to use photographs that show people. Iceland has such a strong landscape, the landscape and bus should be the main characters. I am not afraid of quickness. Fast series of photo's merging into mere colours is a great result. I think the tune is generated by Iceland itself, gentle and quiet AND dramatic an cacophonic. I am most satisfied with the tune actually!
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While a creative idea, a problem with the concept is that the best parts where a lot of images are captured by different photographers over a short time just pass by in an indiscernible blur, while the more boring parts where an image is only shot now and then are shown for a long time.
I have a macabre reference: In a documentary on Tsjernobyl I saw a man, checking a broken Geiger counter with a fixed and motionless needle. The needle was stuck in maximum, the machine was not broken, the radiation was simply to strong.