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One man's art is another man's garbage.
Maurice Boscorelli
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So this is art eh?.....I'll pass.
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Wise Guy said:
As it turns out, you're right, Wise Guy.
What had me puzzled and what I find quite fascinating is how this video was produced:
For this installation at Young Projects in Los Angeles, Michael Haussman shot five different subjects on a trampoline and gave each a specific prop and background.
As the artist says, "to the normal viewer, a person jumping on a trampoline is just a figure moving up and down and their expression is a blur of motion. To capture this action and emotion, all the subjects were shot at 2,000 frames per second, while engaged with one simple prop. Afterward, the body is completely steadied in a postproduction process known as 'tracking' (or motion stabilization software). This process takes the subject and steadies them in the frame so that they are no longer moving up and down. All that moves is their skin, cellulite, muscles, and weight of their respective bodies.
The overall effect is somewhat disturbing: we see a singular subject who does not move, and yet the way in which his or her skin moves seems to suggest a kind of time-lapse aging, where they suddenly go from 18 years-old to 55 in a matter of seconds."
Indeed, to some viewers the implied aging that occurs on screen might appear like a special effect or CGI—where soft legs suddenly become riddled with cellulite, or a face suddenly gains wrinkles and bags under the eyes. And yet no effects were applied to the figure at all.
Everything that is seen on screen is entirely due to the effects of gravity on the body. Nothing more, nothing less. As the figure hits the bottom of the jump, wrinkles and abnormal shapes appear. But as they rise to the top of the jump, they seem to become younger, fresher and more buoyant.
For Haussman, "this emotional shift from optimistic youth to depressed older age provokes a very strong, emotional effect in the viewer and leads to a new reading of the human form. Each person interacts with a simple, yet symbolic prop in order to gain more depth into this radical emotional shift, and this prop seems to suggest a narrative. We see, for instance, a voluptuous woman, with pristine white skin and red hair floating upward against a cold, dark, chunky wall. Once gravity calls her back to earth, the red ink swirls now fall like blood onto her shoulders and neck."
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Apart from all that high falutin' stuff,
I will confess I'm actually more attracted
to this illustration of the effects of gravity:
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Strangely interesting....unlike Art's current signature which is pure "fap" material.
