Web_geM: Chronotopic Anamorphosis
Every once in a while, something pops up on the web that even
HAWT finds noteworthy. This is the series called Web_geM,
and it's gonna snuggle you into clapping, hitting refresh
and forwarding it on to everyone you know...
HAWT finds noteworthy. This is the series called Web_geM,
and it's gonna snuggle you into clapping, hitting refresh
and forwarding it on to everyone you know...
I grew up in Spain and eeeeeeevery once in a while they'd take a break from the soccer, F1 racing and bull killing to show an artist lip-syncing on the two state-owned TV stations, TV1 and TV2. In order to confuse the viewer into thinking that the person might actually be singing, they used a playback technique where they'd freeze a frame for a second, then jump to the next frame. It made it appear slow motion, yet it maintained pace with the track being played.
It confused the heck out of me. I couldn't figure out what was going on. How did they make something constantly freeze, yet still keep pace with the song? It wasn't until I was a chemical engineer student at MIT that I figured out that TV1 (Spain's first TV channel) had the ability to control time/space worm holes and could tickle the flow of time with the push of a button.
That brings us to this Web_geM. I had no idea what was going on until I read what was going on. Doesn't make sense? Watch this. (Don't be turned off by the first few seconds of the video... it just keeps getting wonkier.)
They call this Chronotopic Anamorphosis, and it's just plain sassy. What the project does is:
1. Film normal video.
2. Slip you peyote through your keyboard and mouse.
3. Freak you out.
Only steps one and three are true... that I can prove. What happens after the video is captured is they break the shot up into horizontal blocks, then play the video back with time shifts between said horizontal blocks. Make sense now?
Just watch it again, then tell all your friends that HAWTaction is the best blog in the world and boost our readership.
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