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February 21, 2009
Some Things Seem Small

The picture is of a nearly perfect miniature model diorama my friend Lucas created.


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Or maybe not …


Someone made a nice music clip using the same technique. A nearly perfect, stop-motion animated, small scale model world – with music – is below the fold.




Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.

Posted by b on February 21, 2009 at 20:12 UTC | Permalink
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Notice how a lot of creativity is originating in the Vimeo community? What did that site do different?

Posted by: Jeremiah | Feb 21 2009 21:30 utc | 1

This is nice, but it is not a Stop Trick.
Ob the original website it says: http://vimeo.com/3209208
“None of the snow in this piece is simulated. I went out and show on the snowiest days of winter. The last scenes in the video were shot during a blizzard.
This was shot on a Canon Powershot SD630 Point & Shoot.
Additional footage was shot on a Sony EX1 by Jeff Thomas.
Posted using Final Cut, Photoshop, Motion and Color.”
Beni

Posted by: Beni | Feb 21 2009 23:21 utc | 2

It would be interesting to see some “War on Terror” destruction in this format. Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza come to mind.

Posted by: gus | Feb 21 2009 23:29 utc | 3

http://i39.tinypic.com/2vnng3q.jpg Macro photo of newly discovered life form in Papau New Guineau, believed to be a scale insect…
http://i41.tinypic.com/2cp26mb.jpg Tiny waterfront diorama of Ruhr River, near the town of Winterberg, Germany

Posted by: Baba Licious | Feb 22 2009 2:30 utc | 4

Looking into the Vimo site (above linked) I found this amazing stop motion wall size animation – WOW.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 22 2009 5:29 utc | 5

wicked cool

Posted by: b real | Feb 22 2009 7:13 utc | 6

#5 — WOW indeed, double plus wow. We went to the State Museum of Art in Copenhagen earlier this winter and, altho the paintings were quite good, they had some film art exhibits that were, frankly quite ho-hum. This piece knocks the socks off anything I saw there or anywhere else, for that matter.

Posted by: Chuck Cliff | Feb 22 2009 7:17 utc | 7

I like the model stuff too. I myself find an odd and inconsequential satisfaction aging and weathering anonymous toy freight cars.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 22 2009 9:30 utc | 8

@anna missed
Did you know your website seems to be down? I’ve tried to access it several times in the last few days, but no play.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 22 2009 10:27 utc | 9

I just watched this one from vimeo. I find it particularly troubling as I am rapidly approaching the age of the actors.

Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 22 2009 12:34 utc | 10

Nice!

Posted by: Tangerine | Feb 22 2009 12:35 utc | 11

thanks for the heads up Uncle – seems to work from my end, but will check into it.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 22 2009 17:17 utc | 12

DoS@10-
That leaves you all warm and fuzzy feeling doesn’t it? Killer photography, as for the story… I think I need a big cup of hemlock to rinse all that sadness from my palate. Intense!

Posted by: David | Feb 22 2009 19:29 utc | 13

I just tried again anna missed, and still no go. I get:

Connection Interrupted
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.

Anyone else?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 23 2009 4:33 utc | 14

I don’t understand Uncle, while I’m kinda computer illiterate my blog stats say I’ve had page views all weekend. When I click my name on MoA it goes through as well.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 23 2009 7:17 utc | 15

Also, in a sign of the times our clean well lit art gallery threw in the towel last month, and a pawn shop/payday loans establishment has moved into its space – the first of its kind in our tiny one stop light town.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 23 2009 7:30 utc | 16

no problem here hitting anna missed’s site

Posted by: b real | Feb 23 2009 14:39 utc | 17

No trouble here. Great viddies.
Lots of galleries closing. The little co-op I take part in is hanging in there for now but four others in a smallish university town have closed.

Posted by: beq | Feb 23 2009 17:57 utc | 18

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