An amazing 7 second shot out of a window of a moving train that passes through Ravenscourt Park station in London which is stretched out to 4 minutes ends in a beautiful slow motion geography, strictly timed, for the videoclip of the band SixToes. Director Henry Cowling was inspired by Glide2, which has the same principle of a stretched out moment in time passing a train station. The idea of Henry was yet to instruct and direct the volunteers in the videoclip in their costumes before police would notice.
The train took seven seconds to pass through the station. It’s pure luck that everyone performed their actions well and on cue. We attempted another take coming back the other way from Hammersmith, but the station guards came out onto the platform right in the middle of this and told us to leave.
-Henry Cowling
The camera used is a Photron BC-2, a special high speed video camera for slow motion analysis. A wonderful concept executed beautifully, the music comes alive in the entire setting and slow motion seems a theme more and more used in videoclips. It is also a crucial part in the videoclip of Woodstok – Iron, which is probably one of the most inspiring videoclips so far this year. Have a look and be inspired!
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Nowadays you don’t have to take drugs anymore to get into a visual trip; “Snakes knows it’s yoga” is an exhibition of Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg in the Booijmans van Beuningen museum that shows us the bizarre and surrealistic world of cliché fairy tales in a battle field of death, sex and violence.
It evokes a range of emotions that you don’t easily access next to each other; abomination close to fascination and ugliness close to beauty. Bright neon light shines on whimsical creatures molded out of clay and videos of the creatures interacting in a bizarre eclectic fantasy world are projected in the space around it. If you’re looking for immediate inspiration that wakes you up from slumbering through the days this will most definitely work.
Next to Djurnberg’s exhibition you also could enjoy the peanut butter platform (or floor) by Willem T. Schippers and the ‘Beauty in science’; extreme close ups of molecules, bacteria and other micro/macro creatures. The peanut butter floor wasn’t so much a visual experience as a smelly one as well. The building itself also had some beautiful angles I couldn’t get passed without making a photograph.
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