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Nice clip! I wish I could FFWD through my week like that and then slo-mo the weekend, only to RWD it late Sunday afternoon back to Friday evening!
Bravo!
Someone should submit this to the Short-List on PBS. It’s good enough to put on TV.
I was searching a del.icio.us feed one day and found this video about a month back. Neo, the artist, made a shortened clip just for us and also edited the music.
You should check out the original, longer version. It’s mesmerizing!!
els - Thanks for posting it. It truly is mesmerizing.tycobrahe below says it’s a special city not found in the USA. Uhhuh there are pleasantvilles around but any city can be made to look like Jyväskylä if one had the capability of Neokoo and his artistic mindset. At least I can visualize it for NYC,Amsterdam,London and Seattle (places I have lived in). I am the first to admit that besides the lack of technical equipment like Neokoo I don’t have the artistic talent etcetera.
However what an opportunity for the RB crew. All it takes will be a birds eye view and proper lighting (easy huh?_ and you guys can do NYC. Gee if Neokoo can do it 5 months the 5 of you should be able to do it in 1 month.
I just dl’ed the 360 HD version of it … Joy Joy
I would love to see this on a big HD flat screen with surround sound. What are you going to view the HD version on, Mike?
I like the clean, organized streets, but then again I also like the haphazard charm of older cities as well :)
At first it will be on my PC (Linux or Vista) which has a 500MB Nvidia Card but the display isn’t that good right now. I will also burn a DVD and play it on our master TV / HiFi …my stuff ain’t up to Neokoo or probably yours. I have downloaded HD episodes of Dr. Who and they are excellent on my “lousy” equipment.
I swear I could duplicate the effort in dirty Amsterdam or Seattle (or NYC for that matter) if I had the time and equipment and of course that elusive artistic ability.
Everything you see in that video is basically still pictures played back at video speed (25 images per seconds in this case). Most video editing programs - including some freeware ones - have a function to convert still image sequences to video footage.
You don’t need much equipment to film this sort of material. I used a Sony DSC-R1 still camera and not much else besides the usual stuff (tripod etc.). Some consumer digicams have time-lapse functions as do some DSLRs, making it relatively easy to shoot time-lapse if you have the right camera. Since my R1 doesn’t have time-lapse shooting functions, I had to make analog interval triggers for it - really low-tech, required only some components under $10, instructions off the web and soldering skills.
Anyone can try doing some rough landscape time-lapse by simply taking pictures of the same landscape at a regular interval (for example 5 seconds) and joining them into a video file with VirtualDub (a freeware video processing program). That’s what I did when I began test shoots for this video. The two scenes in the beginning with boats and ships on the lake were shot precisely this way - for each of those I sat near the camera for a couple of hours and pressed the shutter release button every 20 seconds. After that experience I decided to make the process more automatic and constructed the interval triggers I mentioned before.
As for the artistic vision… I definitely owe some of that to Ron Fricke. His work in the movies Koyaanisqatsi, Chronos and Baraka were a big inspiration. There are some seriously breathtaking urban time-lapse sequences in those films, far beyond anything shown in 28 Hours in Jyväskylä.
BARAKA is a masterpiece. I love that film and the soundtrack. Watch it every couple of months to renew my faith in mankind. The intro with the monkey in the pond is the most thought-provoking footage of any movie I’ve ever seen, including the beginning of Kubrick’s 2001.
I didn’t really care for the other 2 movies you mentioned. Do you know if Fricke has put out anything new? Imagine Fricke rhymes with Kubrick…
Samsara is his current project… there doesn’t seem to be much information about its progress though.
For me all three of those movies were eye-opening, hypnotic rides through different aspects of humanity and culture. I agree on Baraka being the best of them, though. An incredible amount of work must have been put into filming all those scenes all over the world, editing it all together and composing the music.
Wow-Still pictures! Thanks for the insight to the way you made it. I thought the first frames were “flatter” than the rest.
I will look at interval triggers - I don’t have the patience to sit for a few hours and maintain a 20 second interval. (I would not be good in the American TV Show ‘Lost’ where they had to enter a code every nnnn seconds). I have a Nikon D70 SLR and a Lumix LX2 and I should be able to use either or both of those cameras.
I will try it .. although my “amateur” photographic skills is still trying to get a panaroma working! Ha!
Now of course even if I did it correctly - I don’t have any atmospheric trance authorship experience. Your musical accompaniment fits the flow and content.
Good luck - I’m sure I’ll see your work in the future.
Thanks! Just a quick mention about interval triggers (or intervalometers, as they’re more often called): Harbortronics seem to have what you need - an intervalometer and a cable for D70.
You should have waited for the D80 to come out.
Yes or maybe even a D300 or a Canon or a … Yes the new cameras are pretty much always better. But I don’t have the money or desire to get a new camera just because the ashtrays are full. Another operant is “A poor workman blames his tools” … OK Yeah a D80 or D300 might take “better” pictures but it’s still the photo composition and exposure which make the image that’s acceptable to yourself. I look back at many pictures I’ve taken at 2 Mega pixels and some are very fine - i.e. composition and exposure.
At the rate camera companies (i.e. Nikon) produce cameras and changes every month, you would have to have very deep pockets to keep up with the Nikonees. (I couldn’t Jones that.)
I could not agree with you more fully. I, too, jumped when the D70 first came out (2004?), and still relish that as my favorite camera to use today. The only other feature beside the higher pixel concentration that I am envious of with the newer ones since: is the bluetooth remote shutter release. The D70 only has infrared which, as you know, needs to be pointed at the camera–and to one side–in order to work. More frames per second? Nah, I can’t even deal with 6 now as it is!
You’re mesmerizing elspethjane/ellie/E!
http://www.justin.tv/elspeth_jane/119631/gorgeousss
This is how I see the world everyday when I forget to wear my 3-D glasses.
It looks like a town that IKEA would plan. Neat, tidy,organized, a bit sterile, but definitely built by grown-ups. Unlike some of the messes we have over here. I don’t think any USA city looks that well run. You have to go to Toronto, etc. to find anything that comes close.
Whoa tyco! Are you comparing Toronto to a European city, especially a Scandinavian one? Yes, being from Montreal I have a natural dislike for Toronto, and yes, I have been there many many many times but that aside I would not go so far as to compare it to a Scandinavian city!
I agreed CC, Toronto is just a flat boring Americanized city with no style or character. You have to put on B-man’s special 3-D glasses to get any thrill, unless Elspeth is visiting and walking the streets, then everything turns to slow mo.
Buzz Up!
As I said, this looks like IKEA-ville. Like you could get all the architecture, transit, roadways from a put-it-together box. Now it may be “in” Europe, but European usually means postcard Europe with lots of 18th-19th century leftovers thrown in. I didn’t see too many here. Oh, and Toronto would be the cleanest American city if it actually were in the USA. Which is what I was comparing it too. We could go overboard and have Elspeth, Joanne and Sarah Meyers be the tour guides. If you could take it.
Tyco, if you can get those 3 women together, I’ll go overboard anytime!
Did I hear limo and champagne!!!
Sorry Drew, you’re not invited…you have them all to yourself all week long, every week, month…after month… you just made a grown man … weep.
Don’t know if I could take it but I sure as heck wouldn’t mind trying!
Loved it.
xlnt, I also noticed a lack of litter in the streets, right up there w/Japan but come winter, burrrrr, I stay in Hawaii thank you!
wow!
Any thoughts Elspeth?
Thoughts?
Educational! Ha.
Well. If you put it that way…
And the day becomes an enchanted night..
y Le video est superb as we say in french. But I dunno if superb is masculin ou feminin, what you say CC club soda?
bouteur
Hmmm, wow infrastructure…fascinating. Nice effort though. I would rather see a piece on the people of that region, rather than watch boats and cars move around…and curiously, an entire rack of bicycles that didn’t move.
Baraka is nothing like the masterpiece Koyaanisqatsi, which is the far superior film about mankind. More relevant today than ever.
1thing+1move=ray of light
Spellbindingly excellent!
…really enjoyed this, especially the long version.
I’m curious to learn how you got the camera onto so many rooftops and/or high places (street lamps?), and then kept it so solidly still for so long (it looks very windy at times).
Again, very cool (and the music, too)! Thanks.
And, Post Script: One of my favorite time-lapse Your-Tub videos (of a much different realm) by a guy in the Netherlands:
As neokoo has said above and on his website - the key is a tripod and interval triggers (or intervalometers). I have the very sturdy tripod and will try for the $10 intervalometer (I can’t afford the Nikon models). As far as rooftops/street lamps - all it would take would be an open window or possibly a balcony or fire escape. But maybe neokeoo will tell us how he did it.
Kodak DCS series pro cameras have become very affordable over time as journalist retire them, for interval trigger hacking there is nothing better than the DCS SDK found here: http://dwarfurl.com/5a162
At $1,600 for a new one, and $600-1000 for a used - I’ll pass.
dcs 520/620 - about $100 on the bay
She’s somewhere in the sunlight strong, Her tears are in the falling rain, She calls me in the wind’s soft song, And with the flow’rs she comes again. ~Richard Le Gallienne
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time will never stop….
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You need to watch this full screen to get the full effect. Same, of course, goes for Joanne.