Sunday, 24 June 2007

Water-Balloon Ballet

No, it’s not Pixar. It’s merely a silvery metallic-looking water-filled balloon being dropped on a hard surface. Gorgeously photographed (as per the mission statement of lucidmovement, a video blog out to “display the wonder of the world through the lens of a high-speed / slow motion camera,” as a means of providing a “video reference for artists and researchers by including information on how the shot was created including specific camera settings etc.”), this sublime and sublimely simple—and soundless—spot conjures exponentially greater numbers of objects with each viewing: now it’s an eggplant, now it’s an elephant, now it’s a pear, now it’s a . . .

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