Comments on: Stunningly surreal time remapping video

By: duncancreamer

duncancreamer — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:58:00 +0000

“this is the sort of piece they’ll reference as the moment the computers started making art for us.”

Yeah, back in 1968′s A Space Odyssey.

By: Zachery Sanford

Zachery Sanford — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:44:00 +0000

So I can’t shake the feeling that I’m tripping balls while staring at a Dali painting with the first video. I don’t know if that’s a compliment or not… it probably is.

By: BillStewart2012

BillStewart2012 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:23:00 +0000

There were also a few falling leaves that didn’t seem to be altering when the people were.

By: gd23

gd23 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:53:00 +0000

I liked this http://youtu.be/G_bHuJAZg68 by Daniel Crook, mentioned in catalogue above

By: James Holden

James Holden — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:56:00 +0000

There’s an interactive exhibit in the National Media Museum, in Bradford, UK that does this in real time for visitors.

From memory, you stand in front of a big screen with a camera in the centre and watch yourself bend and warp as you move. It’s pretty cool.

By: ether78

ether78 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:24:00 +0000

Yes. La Llorona.

By: Forrest O.

Forrest O. — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:23:00 +0000

I made a more-complex version of the effect for these dance videos: http://vimeo.com/21029662

(instead of a single “slit” for the scan, a slitscan is made for each column of pixels, and a video is made of all of those, effectively trading x for time)

More experiments with the effect: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2540182DE868E85&feature=plcp

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:16:00 +0000

Slit scan photography is not that new.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:00:00 +0000

i actually tried to play this video…after 2min. of frustration i realized it was on vimeo….you got me again boing boing. i keep falling for that trick, thinking that maybe someday a vimeo video will actually play on my new mac w/ broadband connection. fool me once shame on you, fool me 100 times…shame on vimeo.

By: Mitch Calvert

Mitch Calvert — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:53:00 +0000

My band did this… old hat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrYKvwSnB8

By: Model Citizen

Model Citizen — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:55:00 +0000

Ketamine’s a hell of a drug.

By: Buddy Bradley

Buddy Bradley — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:50:00 +0000

Shame they didn’t credit the lovely music in this video. Sounds like Beirut to me, anybody know for sure?

By: teufelsdrochk

teufelsdrochk — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:28:00 +0000

link for us peons:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjbiop_zbigniew-rybczynski-the-fourth-dimention_shortfilms

By: Geoffrey Wirth

Geoffrey Wirth — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:21:00 +0000

the rolling shutter is not at it’s core a digital effect: there have been analog cameras doing this since decades. It can not be reproduced with aftereffects (or any other digital tool) without using several cameras or 3D objects: or how do you get imagery of the objects backside instantaniously?

By: teufelsdrochk

teufelsdrochk — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:16:00 +0000

came to post this…also see this album cover:

By: Forrest Cahoon

Forrest Cahoon — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:01:00 +0000

I applied an effect like this to a random video of skaters I found on youtube — two years ago now. From the other comments here I guess I don’t get any prizes for originality, but hey, I thought it up independently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83JwHS5IUCE

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Wow. That looks like a rollicking good time. Wonder if it’s on the Netflix?

By: Jesseham

Jesseham — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:48:00 +0000

I’d like to see Ok go’s take on this effect.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:45:00 +0000

I call shenanigans! She wasn’t altered by the effect at all.

I don’t think this was digital manipulation, I THINK THEY WERE ACTUALLY STRETCHING LIKE THAT!

By: thekinginyellow

thekinginyellow — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:31:00 +0000

i would approach this with after effects using a precomp for every row of pixels to fill the veertical space of the footage then offset them from top to bottom by one or two frames. i’m sure there could be an expression written that would apply a hue to a time delay so you could just use a precomp of a ramp. seems pretty simple to me. just make sure you lock down your camera. it really wouldn’t be that bad seeing as how hd is only 1080 pixels high. a little bit of tedious preproduction and you’re done.

By: Grégoire Tricoire

Grégoire Tricoire — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:24:00 +0000

That effect was used extensively in the 1990′s french movie “The 1001 nights” (Les mille et une nuits) for the all sequences where the genie comes out of his lamp. That movie is also famous for featuring a very young and naked Catherine Zeta Jones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KJSzgDmok

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Reminds me of some parts of Uzumaki (manga/movie).

By: Marco Antonio Morales

Marco Antonio Morales — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:59:00 +0000

Yup. I’ve seen this sort of thing before… but i call it ‘reality remapping’ and involves chemicals rather than pixels…

(And as it’s presented, I don’t believe it’s ‘art’ as much as any other Photoshop/Premiere/whatever filter is ‘art’)

By: taras

taras — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Well, *I* still think it’s magic, and no amount of ‘evidence’ can dissuade me.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:21:00 +0000

When R/GA produced these Renault commercials in 1983 they knew in advance what effect they were trying to create and they used the best tool at the time to achieve it.
http://www.flong.com/storage/images/texts/slit_scan/rga_renault2.jpg
http://www.flong.com/storage/images/texts/slit_scan/rga_renault.jpg

They used the same technology with coarser grids to create the original ‘Predator Effect’

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:19:00 +0000

An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research

http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:18:00 +0000

You are basically right, except they’ve been doing it since the 1960s. The trippy sequence created by Trumbull for the film 2001 was a slit-scan effect.

By: Jeff Ritzmann

Jeff Ritzmann — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:07:00 +0000

“…this is the sort of piece they’ll reference as the moment the computers started making art for us.”

Yeah. I’m not feeling that. If you’re a tech school “artist” then I can see feeling that way. If you’re classically trained first – you realize that everything from an brush, to an airbrush to a computer – are just tools to help you get your vision into reality. They shouldn’t dictate what your art is, The tool doesn’t make art.

By: nowimnothing

nowimnothing — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I like the woman walking in the background at 2:42, oblivious to the reality-shifting aliens nearby.

By: Robert Dee

Robert Dee — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Well, if these future archivists are any good at their job they should know that Zbigniew Rybcznksi did this 24 years ago with his “Fourth Dimension” short film.