gravitymax in transition

these beautiful cinemagraphs, a collaboration between photographer Jamie Beck and motion designer Kevin Burg, are skillful combinations of still photography and animated gifs. the contrast between motion and stillness creates a build up of energy around selective regions of the composition. i found myself waiting for the motionless part to get unstuck and rejoin its own disembodied chorus. from the inventive concept to the exquisite details, its depth lies in how deceptively simple it began.

via diegoguevara

Composed completely of photographs.

A project by Luke Shepard, a student at The American University of Paris.

Location: Paris, France
Camera: Nikon D90
Music: ‘Intro’ by The XX (thexx.info)

photographer greg allen has compiled a series of google street map photos in which an unidentified man was captured in the duality of assertion and removal.

In the Summer of 2009, an unidentified young man came upon the Google Street View Trike preparing to map the Binnenhof, the center of the Dutch government, in The Hague. He decided to tag along. The man walked alongside the Google Trike, persistently inserting himself in the foreground of its nine computer-controlled cameras’ panoptic fields of vision. Meanwhile, Street View’s automated panorama generation system read his presence as a data anomaly and consistently attempted to erase him from the photos. The resulting images, extracted from nearly every Street View panorama of the Binnenhof complex, reveal the history and process of their own making. They are at once a minute detail in Google’s extraordinary, ongoing portrait of the entire world, and one man’s wresting of control of his own image and his audacious assertion of his own presence.

The past 120 years saw some of the most rapid changes in how we record, collect, and use audio, visual, and now digital information. The pace creates in its wake, a long list of obsolete technologies, some of which, still exist, but for which equipment and storage technologies are not always available. This exhibit reflects this light-speed, developing technology world with a selection of media formats.

super comprehesive and potentially dangerous for ebay-holics. view the entire exhibit on university of buffalo libraries.

video tour can be found on theory.isthereason.