Brendan Dawes, Vertigo, from Cinema Redux

In this class we critiqued everyone’s work for Assignment 5 (the map project). I thought this project went really well, and the critiques provoked some good discussion. Now that the new printer is up and running, we’ll try printing everyone’s work and displaying it in the hallway in the Arts & Science building.

While we’re looking at map-related art, I thought some of you might enjoy Brendan Dawes’s Cinema Redux project:

“Cinema Redux creates a single visual distillation of an entire movie; each row represents one minute of film time, comprised of 60 frames, each taken at one second intervals. The result is a unique fingerprint of an entire movie, born from taking many moments spread across time and bringing all of them together in one single moment to create something new.”

Note that the number of frames in each row is not arbitrary, but represents one minute of film. You might think of any artwork as being composed of various small decisions; when there are particular reasons behind these small decisions, the work seems more considered, thoughtful, and stronger.

Check out more of Dawes’s work on his website, brendandawes.com.