Dead Dinos in his jet fuel, Dead Weight following around with a fancy “Sierra Club” hat, Dead Trees in his books, Dead Heads at his concerts. The man’s actions clearly indicate global warming isn’t real. If it were, Al Gore would be just a little bit more forward thinking than putting Goreco flourescent bulbs in his home.

Herikutsu on August 9, 2007 at 10:15 PM

Unless you have a box dedicated to rendering, that could consume your processing resources for a week. :) Also, it sounds like a whole lot of trouble for an effect that would not be flawless. There would be visual artifacts that could be detected by pixel hawks such as yourself.

Creative yes, but I think he stole the idea from the HP TV ads…

shooter on August 9, 2007 at 9:43 PM

Stole the idea? Good grief, are we past the point of being able to acknowledge originality?

Originality in art is overstated. Most artists create works which derive from an evolution of ideas and techniques handed down. Rarely does an artist completely change things. (Escher, Hendrix, Brown are a few standouts) There is little room for objectivity in art.

It’s all a matter of style and personal taste.

Regarding the animation, the technique synthesizes old and new photographic and developing technologies with amazing detail and results.

But, I’m a nobody. Here it from the horse’s mouth, Jordan Greenhalgh:

I used Polaroid 600 film to capture all of my imagery. During the development phase of each image the Polaroids were manipulated to create lines and shapes as well as pulling some emulsion completely off. After shooting all of the Polaroids (987 to be exact) I re-shot them in black limbo with a Canon digital SLR. The end result is my film Process Enacted. There is no digital compositing or computer trickery … just what was in front of the lens.

A lot of photographers (my brother included) are spending time doing “hands on” work which they find quite satisfying as opposed to digital. He’ll be co-leading a large pinhole camera workshop early next year.

And I guess you could say that there was a little temporarily federal funding on the project (though not NEA). One of the credit pages said “FUNDED IN PART BY:” and included “TAX RETURN ‘07″

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Regardless of technology, I thought it was pretty clever, and well done. Fed funds worth, no…but still pretty clever.

tickleddragon on August 9, 2007 at 11:00 PM

Well I wasn’t saying it wasn’t kewl. Just that is reminded me of This.

- The Cat

- The Cat

Not trivial, but not all that difficult either.

This crossed my mind because the series with the water in the background looked more like some kind of filter effect than real water. And there would be no way (that I can think of off the top of my head) to make the wave motion look synchronized with real water and some sort of time-lapse photography.

Very cool indeed. Where did I put my retro 80s clothing?

Kudos to this guy and his team. It brings me back to art school days. *sigh*