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  • Pregnancy 2008, a 15 second fast-motion display of 300 images taken every single day of her pregnancy, allows us to witness the artist standing naked with her stomach growing, in her studio which is in the process of becoming her bedroom.

    Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011

  • It seems artificial or unnatural to look closely: after all, it runs against the grain of today's very distracted, fast-motion seeing.

    James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010

  • Pregnancy 2008, a 15 second fast-motion display of 300 images taken every single day of her pregnancy, allows us to witness the artist standing naked with her stomach growing, in her studio which is in the process of becoming her bedroom.

    Anne Couillaud: Day-to-Day (PHOTOS): Artists' Daily Practices Incorporate the Time Dimension Anne Couillaud 2011

  • It seems artificial or unnatural to look closely: after all, it runs against the grain of today's very distracted, fast-motion seeing.

    James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010

  • As if Tally was watching a fast-motion video of the day, the sun seemed to rise quickly into the sky, the shadows shifting around her like living things.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • It seems artificial or unnatural to look closely: after all, it runs against the grain of today's very distracted, fast-motion seeing.

    James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian James Elkins 2010

  • All the people, walking up and down the sidewalks in fast-motion.

    Hotel Chelsea - Scene 4 2010

  • We have tricks (which work quite well) like shifting from fast-motion to super-slow-motion, lots and lots of camera shaking, going to split-screen, whip-zooms, fast-pans, tilted camera shots, quick editing, changing aspect ratios (adding bars to make the frame more square), changing camera angles, and changing colors (a shot of mostly red turns into a shot of mostly white).

    OMG - This is hilarious! frankwu 2008

  • Among the show's iconic films is "Six Colorful Inside Jobs" (1977), a 33-minute, fast-motion, silent video, in which the artist, filmed from above, paints an entire small room six different colors in six successive sessions.

    Much Less Than Meets the Eye 2010

  • The bees work themselves into an fast-motion hyper frenzy.

    The Most Visited « Fairegarden 2010

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