One of the most creative uses of Time Lapse I’ve seen
This pretty incredible time lapse video reminds me at times of scenes from "2001 A Space Odyssey" and "Blade Runner." A sincere congratulations to director/photographer Michael Shainblum for creating something truly special and pretty magical. I really appreciate his unique take on what has become an extremely popular field: time lapse photography.
Mirror City Timelapse from Michael Shainblum on Vimeo.
From his Vimeo description:
When I first started Mirror City, I wanted to create a video that was completely out of the norm. I wanted to showcase something unique and artistic, which takes Timelapse photography into a more abstract direction. Mirror City is a visual story through some of the great American cities: Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. These clips were all processed from their original form, into the kaleidoscopic visuals that you see in this video. Many people visit these large cities every day, and all of these places have been shot and filmed, but I wanted to emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before. I wanted to put man-made geometric shapes, mixed with elements of color and movement to create less of a structured video, and more of a plethora of visual stimulation.
The video starts off with simple mirrors and recognizable architecture, as the video progresses, so does the visual stimulation, showing the real abstraction of the piece.
I have worked on this piece for an extremely long amount of time. I have spent time mirroring images and videos for the past five years, and I have been working on this specific piece for about four months. I felt it was time to combine Timelapse photography and the simplicity of a kaleidoscope, and create Mirror City.
Really cool find. Amazing work by mirrorcity.
Thanks
It’s one of the most elaborate and well conceived pieces I’ve ever seen. The five years of effort really paid off! Great work, I agree.
Beautiful work. I love the shots that create new fantastical and inspiring spaces from relatively common locations.
Definitely a visual feast.
Interesting thought (to me anyhow) – if the files are big enough, be great to make some BIG fine art prints and approach galleries. Easily as interesting in their own way as the work Stephen Wilkes has been doing. It’d be nice to be able to really look at the images on a wall.
This is FU@@ING sick! hypnotic. about 15 seconds in and I forgot I was staring at cities.
speechless.
This is spectacular! Another amazing work from MirrorCity!