Comments on: Rivers of Light

Rivers of Light

carter — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:20:33 -0800

Rivers of Light Hypnotic night-time helicopter shots, floating over downtown LA offices and highways. From Grass Collective. Flash interface, so find your way to the fifth column from the left ('free downloads'). [Large (91MB, 146MB) zipped QT files - a smaller (12MB) sample here]

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:43:29 -0800

Awesome. Oh, man, I recognize the interchange in the smaller online sample. Always, always, always clogged.

By: etaoin

etaoin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:05:24 -0800

Why am I seeing stuff about sea jellies?

By: carter

carter — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:28:01 -0800

Why am I seeing stuff about sea jellies? Confusing Flash nav, probably. Mouse over the opaque white rectangles at the top and bottom of the picture of the grass.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:51:15 -0800

Direct Links to the files: Video 1 Video 2

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:51:18 -0800

The footage was pretty damn well shot - like Koyaanisqatsi.

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:19:58 -0800

Thanks for posting this. I'm writing some sketches in Processing for playing with time-lapse video in diff ways, and while these aren't time-lapse, they work well.

By: 6am

6am — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:45:58 -0800

yeah, made me think of koyaanisquatsi too. mint!

By: mhh5

mhh5 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:41:51 -0800

ok, is this really worth downloading? I got a sample from the "movies" column in the 2nd column from the left. It's just traffic. Nicely shot traffic. And it seems strange how one side of the highway is more brightly lit up than the side going the opposite direction...

By: armage

armage — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:06:04 -0800

Because there's more traffic, mhh5 -- this seems to have been shot during evening rush hour, which means outbound, suburb-headed traffic will be greater, meaning more cars (and more brake lights, I might add).

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:36:01 -0800

Wow. Circulatory-system-esque. A real delight! Thanks for pointing my eyeballs at this. I'm loving light and glass and film, and what they can doo, more and more as time goes on.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:08:50 -0800

needs a soundtrack :D thanks!

By: found missing

found missing — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:33:07 -0800

It's cool at the end when the white Bronco finally crashes and the cops all drag the guy out and beat the shit out of him.