Patriot Locomotion

Patriot Locomotion
Love this photo from the Spring 2017 Delights of Seeing after school workshop.  We were working on a stop motion sequence inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s “Human Locomotion” and “Animal Locomotion” works.  We called our series “Patriot Locomotion” after the HPS mascot. 🙂 Save Save Save Save

Expanded Views

Expanded Views
Some people might recall the classic Viewmaster toy…   During the Week 3 workshop students learned about 3-d stereoscopic photography which is what makes the Viewmaster work.  Two photographs that are only slightly different from one another are viewed side-by-side in a way that recreates stereo vision. There’s two parts to stereoscopic photography.  First, the ...

Muybridge Menagerie

The second week of Delights of Seeing focused on stop motion photography and early examples of animation using photographic images.  Eadweard Muybridge was a famous stop motion photographer who invented a process for capturing the movements of animals and people.  He was the first to show the position of a horses feet while running, something ...