Robbie shot 3038 photos with his Canon 5D over a period of 3 days of his life in and around Boston. He then created a video of all of the photos played at hi-speed in the order they were shot, set to the song “Dry Lips” by Lightspeed Champion.
via Cartoon Brew
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The song is “Dry Lips” by Lightspeed Champion.
Yeah, I had it swapped, it's corrected now.
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*
Wow, that dude has an amazingly boring life!
Amazing !
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.)
Thank you very much. This is great. Lightspeed Champions should use it as a video. I enjoyed this very very much
nice video, but this person does not live in Boston….not really anyway.
Nice work! I found this on digg but i swear i know some of these people from somewhere…. bromfield?
Hey there's Harvard
that's my hometown
What kind of camera did you use?
Uh, you realize that ALL video is just a series of still photos, right?
Nice idea and well done.
ps. linked through digg
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.
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!!
yeesh… this might as well be a viral Apple commercial – hipsters, indie music, tons of Macs.
cool idea though…
Great!
Thanks for expressing yourself.
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.
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.
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.
Why not just use a high-definition video camera?
You would get the same picture quality without the lenghty animation process.
Very unique! I watched it 3 times. Very cool idea. I think I will experiment with this concept in the near future.
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…
awwwwwwwwwww thats so sweeet!
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]).
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?v=o1rBklbK_XU