stop the world

Instead of shooting a fast moving object, Taylor's high-speed video camera is the fast moving object (on a high speed train going around 125 mph), and it is filming the platform moving by. Fast motion in slow motion.

no plot, no action, totally mesemerizing.

via Glide project

via Graeme Taylor's blog: Straylight

filmed with a casio exilim fh20

He says: "In all my slow-motion work so far, I’ve used a static camera to capture a high-speed event. But, I wondered, what would happen if the camera was the fast-moving object? For instance, if you use a 210fps camera at 35mph, on playback at 30fps it’ll seem to the observer that they’re moving at walking pace- but everything observed will be operating at 1/7th speed."

ah yes. just as I suspected.

patty cake cats

a friend sent this to me and I'm sorry but it IS friday so silliness is in order

(wait. sorry. silliness is ALWAYS in order)

Tree of Codes

Jonathan Safran Foer has a new book coming out called Tree of Codes and he made it by taking his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz and cutting out the words to create a completely new story. wow.

This is an image of the book.

He uses sculptural means to craft a story--and reminds us that books have bodies! This is one that I can't see working on a nook or a kindle or even an iPad.

Books with bodies!