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Looking twice: When big things look small

What can I say?

Since I was a kid, I’ve always liked boats both private modern ones and big experimental models.

My thanks to Keith Loutit for taking time to actually document what he saw in Sydney and for posting his attention-grabbing work on Vimeo.

By the way, I’ve long been interested in seaports. So, have a look at Loutit’s Bathtub V.

When we have time, we all should make something just as creative and fun

Tomas Mankovsky’s film, Sorry I’m Late, has received numerous online accolades recently, particularly on host Vimeo.

What I like about it is that it’s simple, colorful, fun. In a way, it pops.

It mixes shapes, sizes, people and things to give it a touch of reality and the surreal. It showed me how a storyteller can convey ideas, such as falling into water, in new ways.

So, thanks Tomas. His Web site has images showing how he made it.

The film brought back memories of my only stop-motion movie – the one I made back in middle school. I made human figures out of clay. I set up the camera on a tripod.

I filmed just like my teacher instructed. The only catch: I forgot the camera captured a bird’s-eye view of the clay figures.

And my clay figures stood on the ground in the same way people do. So, when you watched the film, you knew the clay figures were moving.

But it was difficult to tell because you basically saw the characters’ heads.

Obviously, I’m glad Tomas didn’t have that same problem.

Sometimes color can trump context

Or it can become the context when you think there is little else.

* Thanks to UPPERCASE in Canada for sharing their work on Vimeo.