Lumiere: Space Needle
Lumiere video arises from the tradition of the French Lumiere brothers. Credited with some of the first footage captured, in 1895, the Lumieres are also recognized for holding the first public film screening, showing ten shorts that lasted only twenty minutes total.
For me Lumiere videos are like moving snapshots. Since there is no sound the viewer is compelled to watch the screen to know what is happening. Because the videos are one minute each, they tell a story and give much more information than a still photo alone.
Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects.
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Lumiere: Crowd Crossing
about 1 year ago - No comments
I stopped to grab something to eat while I was downtown and saw this group of people standing there at the intersection. I didn’t know what they were doing but it looked interesting. I’m glad I captured a few snowflakes as well. MP4 Version (Don’t play the Flash version if you don’t have to. It
Lumiere: La Playa de Boca Chica
about 1 year ago - No comments
MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. I broke the time rule but this video required it. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Lumiere: Window Washers
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Window washers … or ninjas? MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Lumiere 10: Dallas Morning Traffic
about 2 years ago - No comments
MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Lumiere 9: Chicago Taxi Ride
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
In a taxi en route to O’Hare. MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Lumiere 8: View from Hotel Room
about 2 years ago - No comments
This was done in my Chicago hotel room. MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Seattle Aquarium
about 2 years ago - No comments
Video from the Seattle Aquarium. The woman in the tank has a cool job (or at least it seems cool). MP4 Version I think I am obsessed with video’ing water (and fish) although most of those videos don’t show up here. Share:
Lumiere 7: The Corner
about 2 years ago - No comments
My hand was a little shaky on this one. I whipped my camera out while waiting for my co-worker at an ATM on the way back from a meeting. MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
Lumiere 6: Metro
about 2 years ago - No comments
MP4 Version Rules: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera. No audio. No zoom. No edit. No effects. Browse other Lumiere’s at videoblogging.info/lumiere Share:
about 2 years ago
Dear Kenya. Was Googling to see whether there was any technology out there to make “moving snapshots” and came across the Lumiere concept and hence your site. I was looking for something that would capture tree branches moving in the wind or for portraiture where that “life” that is lost with the still would be restored. Your Space Needle has too much motion for this concept – I wanted to see the clouds move in the sky but they didn’t. Of course Lumieres have a beginning and an end and a duration. Looping would lead to repetition and it would be obvious unless the footage was long, but then it is not a snapshot. I was looking for something that “resamples” a short video with enough coherence to look natural but randomly (fractally?) so that repetition was not apparent. Requires some knowledge of the perceptual system such as is used in video compression. I think they faked this idea in the movie “The man who fell to Earth” as one of his patents. But the Lumiere thing is interesting. The secret would be to be real selective in those one kept – like a professional photographer – and to choose subjects suitable to the medium. Anyway – I just wanted to share. Hope that is OK. Best Wishes .. Tony