Comments on: Video of 3038 Photos Shot in 3 Days of Life in Boston

By: shino

shino — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:09:28 +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?v=o1rBklbK_XU

By: Fridge

Fridge — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:11:52 +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]).

By: Pinay Sexy

Pinay Sexy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:34:39 +0000

awwwwwwwwwww thats so sweeet!

By: HaHaHa

HaHaHa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:13:33 +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...

By: dg

dg — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:37:21 +0000

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

By: Gavin Cruickshank

Gavin Cruickshank — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:05:54 +0000

Why not just use a high-definition video camera?

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

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:54:44 +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.

By: johnnywon

johnnywon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:41:05 +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.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:16:33 +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.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:14:43 +0000

Great!

Thanks for expressing yourself.

By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:46:40 +0000

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

cool idea though…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:50:19 +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!!

By: patterned

patterned — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:18:50 +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.

By: Edgar

Edgar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:08:56 +0000

Nice idea and well done.

ps. linked through digg

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:01:44 +0000

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

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:42:29 +0000

What kind of camera did you use?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:30:48 +0000

Hey there's Harvard

that's my hometown

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:23:44 +0000

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

By: TampicoDouglas

TampicoDouglas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:49:41 +0000

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

By: Daniel Hansen

Daniel Hansen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:42:16 +0000

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