While I was working at the bookshop in Leadenhall Market I noticed that the building site over the way was in fact giving birth to the fabled Gherkin building and so I decided to record its growth on a daily basis with my little wee l’espion camera. For some reason I never did anything with the photos until now, so here they are.
A daily, well week-daily, missing a few days where I forgot and to be honest a bit patchy towards the end, photographic account of the construction of the Gherkin tower in the City of London from 20th September to 30th November 2002 in 56 photos (1.1meg). Bear in mind I had no viewfinder.
[Update: Two Quicktime movies: Slow Fades (1.4m), Jerky Stopmotion (686k)]
Have you thought of making a quicktime movie in iPhoto? Admittedly the result would be very jerky (or would it be gherky?) but the effect could be interesting.
I did start making on in iMovie but it used up all my available hard disk space just importing the photos (turned each one into a 20meg mov file!) so I gave up there. I intend to look at iPhoto for doing the same but it runs so slowly on my machine…
If anyone else wants to play about with these photos feel free.
Added a quick movie done with iPhoto.
Wow.
That’s kind of beautiful.
Would make a cute grainy flipbook, if printed out.
Wait! There’s no-one else in the office.
(hums the happy tune)
Came out better than I expected! What display time did you use for each “frame”? Incidentally, the fade was introduced in a later version and the original no-fade design is no longer an option. I would like to have both options, but I guess that’s what you get when the software is free!
The timing for each frame is 0.1 seconds, so I guess the fade is fixed. I was going for a rapid burst but this is just as nice. I guess iMovie is for doing anything more advanced (the movie export in iPhoto was so simple it took me a while to realise where it was!) – once I’ve cleared off some mp3s I’ll give it another go.
Jeremy, that’s a cool idea. Should you have the ability to mass produce I’d be up for a copy!
Housemate Sam says the movie is like looking through the eyes of a very drunk person. I might have to play around with that idea!
Another movie, this one is shorter without the fades – each photo is there for 0.05 seconds
The new version is better yet. How did you stop the fade? My version doesn’t seem to be able to do this.
Done with iMovie. As long as I stick with VERY short clips it doesn’t take over my hard drive.
Expect more like this soon…