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stop-motion photography & animation

Stop-motion (also referred to as stop-action) photography was one of the first “special effects” techniques ever invented. It is a form of animation and allows otherwise lifeless objects to move and change. Much of the early use of stop-motion in the cinema was to make models of dinosaurs apparently gallop by themselves. Stop-motion continues to be used today in commercials (like the singing California Raisins) and children’s fantasies like Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Movies and television work by displaying to the viewer a series of pictures. Each picture is identical except for the action that is changing in the scene. If the images are flashed up fast enough (around ten a second) the brain will see them as a single picture with moving elements. This effect is known as persistence of vision. Motion pictures are usually projected at 24 frames a second and video at 30 frames a second (although this comes in the form of two interlaced half frames every 60th of a second).

Motion picture cameras record by exposing frames (24 a second) one after another so that movement, like a person walking down a street, is captured. If the camera is pointed at an inanimate object, like a vase on a table, and the frames are exposed one at a time so that in between shots the vase can be moved a fraction of an inch, then film when projected back at normal speed, will show the vase apparently moving by itself. The same can be done with elaborate jointed models on miniature sets to give the impression that the models are alive and walking around by themselves. In addition to models, clay and drawings are often used with this technique. When drawings are used it is generally referred to as cartoon animation.

One of the earliest shorts produced using stop-motion was The Missing Link. Willis O’Brien, a pioneer of stop-motion, completed this comedy in 1916. O’Brien went on to later do the stop-motion for The Lost World in 1925. His most well-known work was King Kong (1933).  Read more here.

SAMPLE STOP-MOTION PHOTOGRAPHY & ANIMATION

1. Stop-Motion with Wolf and Pig

2. The PEN Story (done thru the new Olympus camera E-P1)

3. DEADLINE post-it stop-motion

4. Minilogue / hitchhikers choice

Manila Design Week’s Cubao Experience

Held last August 13, 2009 was Manila Design Week’s bloc party and music art showcase at the Cubao Expo. There were live music by Sandwich, Marcus Highway, Pedicab, Drip,  Pasta Groove, DJ Arbie Wo, and many others. The art exhibits were participated by Mogwai, Pablo Gallery, I Love You Store, Heima, Sputnik, and Whitebox. The event was sponsored by Nokia, Eastpak, Jansport, Sanuk, and Velprint. Here are some photos I have taken during the event (more photos in my facebook).

(Photo resolution was reduced for easy downloading)

Photography: Athan Humol

All rights reserved.  All contained here are my original photos. These pages are protected by copyright. If ever you want to use the photos, please send me a message.  Hail Athanism!

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photo shoot with a Filipina-Norwegian model

This sweet and mesmerizing young lady is Bettina Hansen. A model and aspiring actress, she is currently taking BS Tourism at the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.

Photography: Athan Humol

Model: Bettina Hansen

Location: Makati City

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Filipina-Norwegian model—Bettina

The Color Picker by Jinsun Park

Color Picker is an innovative design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen against an object, the user just presses the scan button.  The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature. With color picker, all range of artists will be able to create a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors.

DESIGNER: JINSUN PARK of KOREA

This is an awesome technology, but what i really wanted is something that would give out the color code that you pick up, exactly like the color picker  in the adobe photoshop. But this is really a cool gadget. I want this one!

source: tuvie

Rubik’s 360

Rubik’s cube inventor,  Ernő Rubik, has come up with a new puzzle called Rubik’s 360.

The 360 is spherical as opposed to cube-shaped, transparent rather than solid, but it’s very, very Rubik’s.

It will take a clever mind to solve it, it has the original 6 Rubik’s colours but it’s more than a logic challenge, you’ve got to develop some skill as well.

When you actually put your hands around the Rubik’s 360 for the first time you can’t let go. You instinctively understand what the game is about and immediately want to start solving it, but first you have to find out how it actually works and how you can defy gravity.

Ernő Rubik with a Rubik's Cube between fingers

• Ernő Rubik invented the Cube in the spring of 1974 in his home town of Budapest, Hungary. He wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry and ended up creating the world’s best selling toy.
• Rubik’s inspiration for the Cube’s internal mechanism came from pebbles in the River Danube whose edges had been smoothed away.
• Rubik called his invention the ‘Magic Cube’. It was renamed the Rubik’s Cube by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980.

• In May 2007, Thibaut Jacquinot of France became the first person to complete the Cube in under 10 seconds in open competition, setting a world record time of 9.86 seconds. The current world record for a single solve was set by Erik Akkersdijk at the 2008 Czech Open with a time of 7.08 seconds.

• In 2007 the Rubik’s Cube beat stiff competition to be recognised in the annual CoolBrands list by the Superbrands organisation.

HOW TO SOLVE THE RUBIK’S 360

source: rubiks.com

my new own domain…SOON!

Photography by: Athan Humol

Model : Marina & Andrew

Location: Buendia, Makati City.

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a stunning brazilian—Marina (2)

Photography by: Athan Humol

Model : Marina

Location: Buendia, Makati City.

All rights reserved. All contained here are my original photos. These photos are protected by copyright. If you want to use it, please send me a message thru my facebook. Hail Athanism!