Digital camera mounted to the business-end of a drill

Artist Oscar Lhermitte attached a digital camera to a spinning plate mounted on a hand-drill. The results are pretty fabulously trippy.

“Looking at the different ways to shoot videos. Part of a workshop at the RCA led by Rosario Hurtado and Quique Corrales. May 2010.
“Instead of making a normal movie, I am trying to get a colour gradient of what the camera is shooting. There is no postproduction involved, the effect is achieved by connecting the lens of the camera to a drilling machine. The video is taking 15 frames per second, whereas the drill is spinning at more than 20 turn per second.”

Showtime: Oscar Lhermitte, “Seeing in Circles” (Thanks, Cbath!)

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The results are pretty ~~fabulously trippy~~ seizure inducing!
semiotix

Add in some electro-funk music and a woman saying “Circles!” and you’ve got a perfect late-70s Sesame Street segment.

Well, except for the rotating pr0n at the end. But hey, working artists have to find the angle that’s going to keep them in drills, right?
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Because the world is putting out high dynamic range light, the bright areas survive the significant motion blur. If you digitally spun a low dynamic range image the light sources would soon gray out into the rest of the scene.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HDR_example-motion_blur.jpeg
http://twitter.com/rweiher Robert Weiher

Cool…I did something similar but opposite while doing a photo project a few years back. My camera was on a tripod and I attached things to a drill and move it away from the camera while it was on long exposure. Pretty much the same effect.
musesum

Is this NSFW? Or perhaps NSFH (not suitable for hangover)
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  NSFW. Check out the nipple at 1:15.
  - oasisob1
    
    Sorry. 2:05.
cellocgw

Sounds like a challenge: do the same thing in software post-processing. I seem to recall a twist-o-matic tool a few years back that was supposed to anonymize faces until some math nerd figured out how to untwist the image.
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Charles Richter

My god, it’s full of stars!
http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

This reminds me of the last time I visited The Tenderloin.
bluest_one

Uh … I feel dizzy now.

Top Tip: look away when the drill is spinning down.
http://twitter.com/vitsoft Pavel Šrubař

OMG, it’s full of stars!
http://libraries.unl.edu dross1260

Where’s the newspaper headline at the end?
EH

Goes well with the new Pharaoh Overlord album.
Angryjim

dr who theme mix please.
http://hellsdonuthouse.com/ Hell’s Donut House

Looks like a Batman segue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm4vDz7k2w4
Michael Holloway

BONK! WHAMMO!!! Holly spinning flamingos Batman!
danjadave

I can see the Japanese porn industry getting in on this…
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The first thing I thought was Dr. WHO?
noah django

reminds me of when we used to make video feedback loops with a camera wired directly to a display. if the camera is pointed at the screen, any light behind the display feeds back (same idea as microphone/guitar pickup sonic feedback when device is pointed at the speaker.) It looks like infinite recursion, then when you point at the screen’s corner, it spins. using the zoom and having a bright window behind the display can make cool stuff like this video.

also, i wonder how many tries it took to get the lens centered.
http://profile.yahoo.com/CM5FJIMZ6WW3FRJI2PALGOK7HQ Alex

I like how they add “Artist” to his name, like this required insane skill and artistic insight that a normal human being couldn’t fathom.
suburbanhick

reminds me of nothing so much as that horribly bad British sci-fi series from the 70s called “Space 1999″. didn’t they use an effect like this to simulate time travel or teleporting or something? meh – hokey then n’ now!
http://www.technodo.com/ Andrew

Wow, some cool effects there. Either hippies got a hold of a digicam, or Batman is stuck in between scenes!