An artist named Josh Owens has done the near-impossible: he’s actually made grimy, sleazy Times Square look damn pretty—and the entire island as well. It’s like NYC on speed. Check it out.
Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.
Owens obviously put an insane amount of time into this four-minute video. I’d guess that the process of making one of these time lapse videos, which is primarily what Owens does as a filmmaker, is something like the tediousness of building one of those miniature ships in a tiny glass bottle.
Owens shot mostly from the roofs and windows of hotel rooms, which he got to stay in for free under the condition that the hotels could use the footage that he shot.
It’s a trip what a change in speed can do to the perspective of a city, especially for those of us who are fortunate enough to live in NYC but for obvious brain-processing and lame single-perspective reasons, don’t get the chance to see from such a jumble of angles and at around seven hundred times faster than real-time, which was about the average speed of this time lapse.
[Via newyorker.com]
June 03, 2011 at 6:21 pm, Not Matt Bellamy said:
“sleazy”? Times Sq. hasn’t been sleazy since Guiliani gave the strip joints the boot and brought in Disney! The only sleazy joint there today is MTV… oh, yeah. Okay, it’s still a bit sleazy, then.