For several years now I've been making these Cubist collage portraits, I call them composites. These are constructed by digitally layering and combining dozens of close-up photos of a single person. Here's a
timelapse video of a recent effort.
The process itself is meditative, which is one reason I enjoy making them. As I layer on the new angles and various crops of shots, I see unexpected mixtures of emotion and form in the subject's face. Soon the person in the image becomes a kind of product of the equation generated by the range of thoughts expressed during the time the images were captured. The most extreme emotions are tempered by calm, but I think, I hope, the kinetic and emotional energy of the person is highlighted in the finished image. For timelapse videos like this, I can kind of worry less about
the finished image and just take a trip though the possibilities. Viewers are encouraged to freeze frame anywhere along the process to find their favorite frames.
My laziness is your gain.
Music by
The Pen Name.
Similar videos I've made:
Interactive Composite in Flash.
Demon-stration is another timelapse.
Snowcha is a timelapse with model commentary.
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Here's an interview with Robin Ator, a Portland comic artist, cartoonist, animator, character designer, illustrator and all around swell guy.
A quick little montage homage to my dork little secret, gaming. See if you can name all the games being played in this video!
Cor and I went to the coast to visit her brother. On the way, I shot a short clip of video every five minutes. Did the same for the trip back. The result is an abridged version of our roadtrip.
There's something fun about novel food-delivery systems. Sushi joints tend to have the best, in the form of boats, trains and, in this case, a conveyor belt. R-type, Lonveig and I had lunch at Sushiland. Little did I know, my camera was on the whole time. Enjoy the video.
