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Aug 09, 2010 13:22

One week in July 2010 I made some recordings of my bus journey through London to and from work. I got on a number 12 bus in Peckham, held the camera to the window, pressed record and an hour later pressed Stop and got off in Regent Street. No selecting shots or zooming in or out, just recording the streets I passed along from a fixed unchanging ( Read more... )

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nemesis_to_go August 10 2010, 01:29:30 UTC

This is really rather good.

I like the way it makes the ordinary seem dreamlike and exotic. I often think the everyday world is ever so slightly odd if you look at it in the right way.

Sometimes I want to accost passers-by and say, 'Don't you see how weird everything is?' I don't actually do this, though, because they might think I was the odd one.

Anyway. I can point to this video as evidence of everyday strangeness!

mal1 August 10 2010, 08:49:09 UTC

Thanks Uncle Nem - you've summed up what I was trying to do far more succinctly than I managed!

moia August 10 2010, 07:57:47 UTC

I really liked this, though I couldn't see it whole&couldn't hear the music as I'm at work. It must have taken you quite some time to put together?

To me it feels like an artistic London experience. :)

mal1 August 10 2010, 08:57:59 UTC

Glad you liked it, even without the music :) It didn't take too long to edit, I just took out the bits where there was nothing happening and squished the rest together. I really enjoyed doing it, and it makes my journey to work more interesting if I can think of it as an artistic venture or research project instead!

charleston August 10 2010, 19:21:11 UTC

This is a lovely thing. I filmed something similar from a tram in Portugal but haven't got round to editing it yet.

What did you edit it in? I used a similar filter when I was trying some ideas for album covers - it works really well with this London footage. I love it.

mal1 August 10 2010, 22:27:38 UTC

Thanks Charley.

I would really love to see your Portugal tram film. Please post it!

This was done in Windows Movie Maker which is a free/slightly crappy bit of software that is bundled with Vista. I know nothing about video making or processing or anything at all, so am sticking with it because its limitations match mine. The filter is Threshold - suits urban streetscapes nicely I think.