Digital Snapshot

June 27, 2004 7:29 PM

Digital Snapshot.. "What does a moment look like? Can snapshots freeze a moment in time? In Digital Snapshot, motion fragments were captured and rearranged in a new visual context via unconventional digital manipulations. A long take camera movement cycle generates a unique 'digital painting.' In this case Digital Snapshot enables the viewer to experience a virtual walk through a beautiful park during summertime."
posted by crunchland (11 comments total)

This is very cool. I love the panoramas but Safari says at current pace the movie will download in 4 days, 16 hours. I also wished the Theory was in English. Hopefully Sherlock is up to the task of translating.
posted by birdherder at 8:59 PM on June 27, 2004

I spent 2+ hours downloading about 75 percent of the movie. It's pretty cool -- kind of reminds me of that REM video, Cinnamon (or something like that). I can't quite work out how they did it exactly. It almost seems like they used the Matrix style 360 degree still camera effect so they could pivot around a frozen image, but they did it with video instead of still. It must have taken some crazy patience to get all the source images.
posted by willnot at 10:21 PM on June 27, 2004

Wow, that movie was impressive. (The video doesn't have a music credit. Anyone recognize it? it sounded a lot like Electric Birds [mp3] to me.)
posted by dobbs at 10:58 PM on June 27, 2004

Doh! Nevermind. There's a music credit in the about section.

Did anyone have any luck downloading the movie rather than streaming it? I tried to download every file and got an error every time. Streamed fine, though.
posted by dobbs at 11:01 PM on June 27, 2004

Downloaded it in about 3 hours on a cable connection. Then quicktime crashed.

Boo.

Looked cool though.
posted by bdave at 11:49 PM on June 27, 2004

I have one of the quicktime movies, and I'd upload it somewhere to a faster mirror, but I'd rather not foot the bandwidth bill myself. Anyone got any ideas?
posted by crunchland at 4:26 AM on June 28, 2004

Ok. let's try this ...

Quicktime (small) 6.2mb
Quicktime (medium) 12.6mb
Quicktime (large) 26.2mb

Divx (medium) 13.1mb
Divx (large) 29.7mb

Media Player (medium)" 13.8mb
posted by crunchland at 4:42 AM on June 28, 2004

willnot, the song is called "Imitation of Life." Video here.
posted by pardonyou? at 7:04 AM on June 28, 2004

This is good. Really avesome. Expect to see this effect in a music video in 3...2...1..
posted by hoskala at 8:41 AM on June 28, 2004

crunchland, your links don't work for me. Could you maybe setup a torrent?
posted by Orange Goblin at 10:17 AM on June 28, 2004

Hm. Ok. Try this. This is the large Divx file, 28.86mb big.
posted by crunchland at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2004