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Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

shino — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:09:28 -0000

Hi, this is first time I drop a messege.
Actually, I just made a simillar VIDEO in Tokyo.

If you feel not bad, please check it out.
Thank you.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch...

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Fridge — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:11:52 -0000

I'm not sure about that. It's three days out of many. It consists of commuting across city, going to uni/work, having a laugh with his friends at his place/his friends' places, sounds like an average life to me. Not only that, it sounds like a pretty happy life.

You never get to hear what the people say, only put a soundtrack to it. How're you to tell whether it's boring or not when words make up most of our life? I can see this must've been inspired by the now all but non-existent Super-8 cameras (the motion cameras that use transparency film instead of magnetic tape, so they don't have sound and they generally use a lower shutter speed that sometimes is played and normal speed [thus making it faster than normal]).

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Pinay Sexy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:34:39 -0000

awwwwwwwwwww thats so sweeet!

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

HaHaHa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:13:33 -0000

Ha! This guy has to take the infamously bad Fitchberg commuter line. The only one worse is Worcester.

And I second the idea that he should have just used a video cam.

Oh well. He's got a hard enough life having to ride that train, so I'll stop...

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

dg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:37:21 -0000

Very unique! I watched it 3 times. Very cool idea. I think I will experiment with this concept in the near future.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Gavin Cruickshank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:05:54 -0000

Why not just use a high-definition video camera?

You would get the same picture quality without the lenghty animation process.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Nick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:44 -0000

I agree with Bob, sort of. With the rate at which the photos were taken it ceases to look like anything other than just choppy video. Add to that there was no real narrative being told, at least nothing that I could see aside from, this is the subway, this is the street, this is the office, this is the street again, etc. and it's just a big "meh, whatever" for me. If you are going to do something like this (string together a series of photos) do something stylistically that will utilize that approach. Also, try to figure out a way to tell some kind of story with it.

Unlike Bob, I would not say it is a waste of time. I can see that it is experimentation and I fully encourage that. It's a first step toward something, and good on ya for taking that first step. Now use what you've learned and take step number two.

Cheers.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

johnnywon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:41:05 -0000

I did pretty much the same thing (http://vimeo.com/1126456) but I figured out through trial and error that just because you document the entire day doesn't make it particularly interesting. The story of just being in Boston (and I live in Boston) doesn't make it very compelling. It just ends up being a lot of trains and stuff.

I do love the concept and it's a fun idea to play with but I wish this video had more.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Bob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:16:33 -0000

take a movie...or learn to take pictures well. A bunch of crappy photos put together to make a choppy movie set to a good song isn't artistic its a waste of time.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Jason — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:14:43 -0000

Great!

Thanks for expressing yourself.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Alec — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:46:40 -0000

yeesh... this might as well be a viral Apple commercial - hipsters, indie music, tons of Macs.

cool idea though...

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Bryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:50:19 -0000

Very cool. I used to live in Boston, but now reside in NC. I recognized so many familiar places there and loved to nostalgia. Thanks!!

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

patterned — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:18:50 -0000

i second that.
he tries to make it exciting by taking pictures of it, running it at high speed, and throwing some "feel-good" music behind it.

boring.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:08:56 -0000

Nice idea and well done.

ps. linked through digg

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

PJ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:01:44 -0000

Uh, you realize that ALL video is just a series of still photos, right?

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Rafael — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:42:29 -0000

What kind of camera did you use?

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:30:48 -0000

Hey there's Harvard

that's my hometown

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Rob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:23:44 -0000

Nice work! I found this on digg but i swear i know some of these people from somewhere.... bromfield?

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

TampicoDouglas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:49:41 -0000

nice video, but this person does not live in Boston....not really anyway.

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Daniel Hansen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:42:16 -0000

Thank you very much. This is great. Lightspeed Champions should use it as a video. I enjoyed this very very much

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Shawn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:18:46 -0000

BRAVO...that is awesome. Captures how slow the T is some days, how rainy this summer has been, and never-ending road construction perfectly (sarcasm aside, loved this...great great work.)

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

McZiP — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:45 -0000

Amazing !

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

tomas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:22:20 -0000

Wow, that dude has an amazingly boring life!

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

BillyWarhol — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:49:54 -0000

thass something i've always wanted to do with the 45,679 i've posted to Flickr* including the Comments would be FUN too + da 47,300 Faves would be a HOOT too*

Buckle yer Seatbelt yer in fer a Helluva Ride************

;)) Peace*

Re: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

Scott Beale — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:33 -0000

Yeah, I had it swapped, it's corrected now.