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The PEN Story, Olympus

david la tache — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:01:01 +0000

An amazing stop-motion video by Olympus dedicated to the comeback and the 50th anniversary of the PEN series.

For this project, 60,000 pictures have been shot, 9,600 prints were developed and nearly 2,000 pictures have been shot again. According to the guys from Olympus, no post-production or special effects were used.

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.

Homer everyday

david la tache — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Homer Simpson take a photo of himself everyday for 39 years.

The Simpsons episode “Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind” includes a parody of Noah Kalina’s video. In the parody, 39 years of Homer Simpson’s life flash before him with the same musical score playing in the background. The clip ends with a still of YouTube’s standard ending screen, the screen that allows a user to choose another video.

Everyday

david la tache — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years. January 11, 2000 – July 31, 2006. original music by Carly Comando.

Everyday is a viral video produced by American photographer Noah Kalina. It features a fast montage of thousands of pictures of Kalina spanning over a period of six years all played subsequently. Kalina began taking a photo of himself every day on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video everyday shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by musician Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina’s face remains emotionless in the center of the frame. Kalina uploaded the video to Vimeo on August 8, 2006 and YouTube on August 27, 2006. Everyday was featured on an episode of VH1’s Web Junk 20 and on commercials for Time Warner Cable’s Roadrunner service. In a New York Times article, William A. Ewing, director of the Musée de l’Elysée, was quoted as saying,

Noah’s video represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time. There is nothing comparable in the history of photography.

As of April 2008, everyday has had more than 9 million views on YouTube. Kalina had originally intended everyday to be a photo project, but was encouraged to make a film after seeing a video by Ahree Lee, which consisted of time lapse portraits of the artist. He compiled his photographs into a video and released it on YouTube. The distinctive score was composed specifically for the piece by Carly Comando, Kalina’s girlfriend at the time.