Over the course of two weeks YouTuber brusspup utilized the power of stop-motion to create this fascinating fire animation. Stop-motion involves snapping pictures at rapid rates to capture the illusion of movement; when the individual shots are placed together in post-editing they can be played in a continuous sequence, and this results in a video (of pictures). I cannot imagine the amount of time and patience it took to make all this happen!
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Stop-motion teardown of iPhone 4 proves it’s beautiful on the inside, too
The fellas at TechRestore are back with a new teardown. Yup, it’s the iPhone 4.
1784 hi-res photos combine to make a stop-motion expose of the iPhone 4, revealing every detail of construction, from packaging, down to the chips on the logic-board. Set to a custom electronic/glitch soundtrack, with fast paced action, this is no ordinary unboxing and take-apart video!
Well said. Now watch.
[Via Gizmodo]
Wall-painted animation captures the Big Bang, our eventual demise, and everything in between
BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
Produced by Blu.
This ten minute spectacle captures the birth of life on Earth, the slow but eventual rise to human species, and ends with an interesting twist on how everything might unravel. How is something so intricate as wall-painted animation made, you ask? The magic of stop-motion does the trick. Street artist Blu would paint a sequence of images on a surface, take a picture of said images with a digital camera, paint new images onto the same (or new) surface, take pictures of those, and repeat. After all the painting and photography was complete, he took the entire collection of images, laid them out side-by-side, and transformed it into a film. Yes, this is an extremely tedious process; Blu admits this video took “months of work and hundreds [of] buckets of paint”. The end result is nothing short of exquisite.
[Via NewScientist]
NES Mario goes to school in stop motion
[Via Gizmodo]
“Light Warfare” paints a futuristic action genre through the process of light painting
Ho-ly crap. This is awesome. One Freddie Wong has created a masterpiece with “Light Warfare”, a short film of sorts that revels in the photography technique known as light painting. Wong explains:
The idea behind light painting is that if you open the shutter, you can draw lines by moving the flashlight around in front of the lens. So hold the shutter open, get in front, and try drawing something in the air. If you have a camera flash, you can have someone stand in place, and flash them. Then have them hold still and draw around them. Experiment!
Basically light painting can take place when you play around with slow shutter speeds captured in a dark environment as you move a camera around a light source. You might be thinking to yourself, “Haven’t I seen something like this before?” The answer is yes; light painting is also known as “light graffiti” and you can refer back to this post to jumpstart your memory. What makes this video so spectacular is that Wong takes things to a whole ‘nother level by grouping a bunch of stills together and making a video out of them in a process known as stop motion. If any of this intrigues you, head over to Wong’s blog where you’ll find a tutorial for light painting; also peek after the break for a behind-the-scenes look at how “Light Warfare” was made.
A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan
Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan, by Brad Kremer.
Watch this captivating and mesmerizing video that does its best to capture all the beauty that Japan has to offer through the power of time lapse. A number of the shots come from the following locations: Tokyo, Matsuyama, Imabari, Nagano, Gifu, and Ishizushisan. It was shot with a Canon 5D MarkII.
Meet Daisy Lowe, UK Esquire Magazine covergirl
Director Greg Williams is at it again, this time shooting for UK’s version of Esquire Magazine. (Previously we’ve seen Greg’s work with Megan Fox and Kate Beckinsale for US’ Esquire Mag.) Per usual, he uses a super hi-def RED camera, this time with a MX Sensor, to shoot video of covergirl Daisy Lowe that will eventually be converted into stills to use for her spread in the July issue of the zine. Lowe is a 21-year-old English fashion model. Watch her prance around in the video above, and check out a handful of the resulting stills in the gallery below. [This goes without saying but the video and images are NSFW.]
[Stills via egotastic]
Best slo-mo shot ever?
I think so. (Popped balloon + water + white shirt + breasts) [all shot at 1800 FPS] = 🙂
Video game console-inspired office spaces
In an image series called If I Were President photographer Joseph Ford dreams of a world where city landscapes are defined by the distinctive curves of video game consoles. And if I were president, my lair would be exactly what you see above–the NES House. Check out a couple other designs in the gallery below.
45 gigapixel panorama is world’s largest
With a Canon 7D and the 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom at 400mm, photographer Gerald Donovan captured the Dubai cityscape in the world’s largest panorama. 4,250 individual shots combined to make this highly detailed 45 gigapixel bohemoth of a photograph a reality. Head over to Gigapan to explore the image in greater detail. It’s incredible, actually. You can zoom into individual buildings, streets, vehicles, and people.
Time traveler spotted in 1940 museum photograph
There! Do you see him? I know what you’re thinking, but this 1940 photograph has not been tampered with. Those funky glasses, the graphic tee, the portable camera, and look at his hair! All signs point to this man being a time traveler making a pit stop somewhere in 1940s America.
Thanks to a lengthy breakdown of the photo, it has been deduced that it is likely authentic. Bummer, I know. The outfit: Being used as we are to our contemporary fashion, we look at the man and assume he’s wearing a stamped T-shirt, something that would be indeed out of place (or time). But if you look carefully, you can see that he’s actually wearing (or could as well be wearing) a sweatshirt. And sweatshirts with bordered emblems were not uncommon in the 1940s – in fact you can find those in other photos from the same exhibit. The glasses: …similar sunglasses used by actress Barbara Stanwyck on the movie “Double Indemnity”, made in 1944. Or they are motorcycle goggles. The camera: …despite some comments about the camera lens being too big for the time, too compact, it looks like a Kodak Folding Pocket model, available since the beginning of the 20th century.
The conclusion? There’s nothing that can be seen that is actually out of place or time. Despite all of this intriguing fact-checking, I’m still on to you, time traveler! Share your theories in the comments below.
[Via Forgetomori; BoingBoing]
Alternate reality perspective shots
Photographer Steph Goralnick took these “alternate reality gravity” photos to celebrate April Fool’s Day. Pretty neat perspective shots, huh? Check out some a couple more in the gallery below, and head over to Steph’s Flickr page for even more.
[Via Doobybrain]
