Nov 29 2008Tilt-Shift Video Makes Big Things Look Small
Tilt-shift video: I don't even know what it is.
Tilt-shift photography can be used for many things, but one of the more interesting is a technique used to trick the mind into thinking very large things are very small. Tilt-shift takes advantage of our familiarity with very close up images of small things, where the object of interest is in focus, but everything else is progressively blurred.
You know, you could almost write a novella about all the things I don't know. Ha, just kidding, tilt-shift video was the last piece of the puzzle. Knowledge: the shit's like money for your brain. Drugs: drugs are like your brain getting robbed by a bearded man who uses the money to take it on a tropical vacation. Whee, Mexico!
Amazing Tilt-Shift Video From Monster Truck Rally [jalopnik]
Thanks to Jake, who allegedly has some tilt-shift video of your girlfriend he'll post on the internet if you don't send him all your Star Wars figurines.
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Reader Comments
1. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:28 PM
"FLURST!!!!"
2. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:30 PM
"SLECOND!!!"
3. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:31 PM
"THLIRD...tooo!!!"
4. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:33 PM
"HEY!!!"
Am I all alone?...Where are all of you weirdos?
5. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:33 PM
STILLLLLL WAITING.........
6. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 5:36 PM
NEXT POST IS GAY!!
7. Joker - November 29, 2008 5:41 PM
im gay
8. reffear - November 29, 2008 5:54 PM
Heh!
9. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 6:04 PM
NEXT POST IS GAYER!!!
10. matty - November 29, 2008 6:17 PM
i dunno if its the focusing that tricks my mind. i think they look small because the time lapse play back is similar to stop motion play back. it was like robot chicken with hot wheels.
11. Joker - November 29, 2008 6:23 PM
OK THE NEXT POST HAS TO BE THE GAYEST!!!!!!!!
12. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 6:26 PM
YES, I LIKE PINK.
13. Joker - November 29, 2008 6:28 PM
ME TO OH MY GOD
14. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 6:32 PM
OK!!!,
Now that we have covered comparatives and superlatives of gayness I feel that I have done my job.
Thank you for your participation---checks in the mail.
15. Blopit - November 29, 2008 6:44 PM
cool id anyoneelse see the batman monster truck? this is very cool more cooler than the next thing GW posts.. well maybe not but anywho this is cool
16. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 6:46 PM
I'd just like to know how they could afford to construct such a big dragon on such a small budget.
17. Daisy (TRO) - November 29, 2008 6:55 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong..
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max used all his hot wheels and Baja's Bitty Babies to make a stop motion video of a monster truck event for an art project for school. Unfortunately it was so lifelike the teacher thought it was real and gave him an F.
18. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 7:13 PM
Thanks Daisy,
I knew you'd f***ing come to the rescue.
19. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 7:15 PM
NEXT POST IS C***SUCKER!!!!
20. cbobgo - November 29, 2008 7:18 PM
mmmmmm cock
oh, did I say that out loud?
21. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 7:37 PM
No,...nobody heard you.
22. ErikHK - November 29, 2008 7:41 PM
#10: Yes it is, freeze-frame and look for yourself.. check 00:39 for example.
23. Fish Man - November 29, 2008 7:44 PM
wow, i thought daisy would get here earlier. she obviously has nothing to do in her pitiful life other than say everything in geekologie is fake due to shadows and then reference it with a scene from never back down. the geekologie writer should get a picture of her breasts and post it. when she calls it fake he could update it saying " oh and btw, these are daisy's breasts"
24. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 8:05 PM
NEXT POST IS BOOGER-EATER!!!!
25. Hotrod - November 29, 2008 8:32 PM
Achoo! *Lick*
Does snot count?
26. guate6 - November 29, 2008 9:05 PM
Ah yes, the beauty of lensbabies. Gotta love it!
neat video
27. Boost - November 29, 2008 9:27 PM
Sucks GW can't ban people from writing dumbass comments.
I mean the bare necessities so simple bears can rest at east forget about your worries and your tries.
YEAH MAN!
28. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 9:31 PM
@25
Yes "snot" counts....You are "BOOGER EATER"
CONGRATULATIONS!
29. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 9:37 PM
NEXT POST IS, of course,.... FART-SMELLER
30. Extraabsorbant - November 29, 2008 9:43 PM
my mom showed me this, because the fun thing is, i could do this
I KNOW HOW TO DO TILT SHIFT, IT IS FUN
.
31. Extraabsorbant - November 29, 2008 9:44 PM
and it's actually called tilt-shift time lapse videos.
32. Farva's Twin - November 29, 2008 9:46 PM
The hosebag loves to take something big, hide it for a while and then make it smaller, repeatedly.
33. Dylan - November 29, 2008 10:20 PM
Daisy, shut the f*** up for once.
34. GRAMMARNAZI - November 29, 2008 11:29 PM
@30
Hey Extraabsorbant !!,
The period at the end of your sentence is drunk. You should make sure it doesn't drive home tonight.
35. big brown - November 30, 2008 12:16 AM
next person is a booger eating-cock sucker-gay ass-homo
36. ------------------- - November 30, 2008 12:30 AM
Yes, how can I help you?
37. small brown - November 30, 2008 2:25 AM
Eat his shit, suck his cock and f*** my dad.
38. Dr.Death - November 30, 2008 3:01 AM
such happy people
39. hahahaaa - November 30, 2008 4:38 AM
i still dont get how it works but its cool
omfg i know it's coming but Daisy's comment gets me every time HAHAHAHAHA
40. Adra - November 30, 2008 5:28 AM
Thats a pretty cool vid. Makes big things look smaller you say? So all the women ive ever slept with must have been looking through special contact lenses doing the same thing to my penis....
Gx
41. innocentman - November 30, 2008 7:21 AM
daisy is okay in my book
42. McCauley - November 30, 2008 9:03 AM
@23
Daisy already admitted her boobs are augmented.
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/coffee_may_shrink_breasts_prev.php#comment-55609http:
Secondly, it probably isn't much work at all to proclaim fake. Judging fom all her imposterizers, its easier than ever to be daisy, because she has help.
Concerning the topic, it seems to me that the reason these look like miniatures is because the depth of field mimics what we are used to seeing in a macro photo. It would be interesting to see what someone who never saw a macro photo perceived when looking at these.
43. GRAMMARNAZI - November 30, 2008 10:08 AM
The reason these look like miniatures is because they are miniatures. The depth of field doesn't mimic macro photography. It is macro photography.
I think i found FART SMELLER
44. GINOMAGANTUAN - November 30, 2008 10:29 AM
DAAAAAAAAYYUM! THIS SHIT RIGHT HEUH BE THE REASON MY JUNK BE ALL LOOKING SMALL AND SHEET WHEN THEY TAEK A PICTUR OF IT N' SHIT, NOW I CAN TELL THE LADIES MY SHIT IS IN FACT F***ING XXXXXL!!!!! CUZ THEY MUSTA TAKEN DEM PICZ WITH TILT SHIT KNA' MEEN? KNAM' SAYIN' IT'S LIKE ITALL MAKES PERFECT SENCE, IT'S ALL VERY CENTRIFUGAL AND LATERAL AND BILATERAL N' SHIT, IT'S ALL LIKE....... BANTER MOTHA F***AZZZ!!!!! IT'S A F***ING MIND TRICK, AND A CONSPIRACY! IT'S ALL AN OPTICAL ILLUSION CREATED BY THE ILLUMINATI, AND OUT THERE BY THE CHEMEKULLZ IN YOUR CHICKEN MUGGETS YO!!!!!!!!! IT ALL MAKES SENCE SO BAAAAM!!!!!!! THEY IT IS NUKKA I SOLVED THE MISTERY OF WHY MY MEAT BE LOOKIN SMALL IN DA PICS N' SHIT.
45. GINORMAGANTUAN - November 30, 2008 10:29 AM
DAAAAAAAAYYUM! THIS SHIT RIGHT HEUH BE THE REASON MY JUNK BE ALL LOOKING SMALL AND SHEET WHEN THEY TAEK A PICTUR OF IT N' SHIT, NOW I CAN TELL THE LADIES MY SHIT IS IN FACT F***ING XXXXXL!!!!! CUZ THEY MUSTA TAKEN DEM PICZ WITH TILT SHIT KNA' MEEN? KNAM' SAYIN' IT'S LIKE ITALL MAKES PERFECT SENCE, IT'S ALL VERY CENTRIFUGAL AND LATERAL AND BILATERAL N' SHIT, IT'S ALL LIKE....... BANTER MOTHA F***AZZZ!!!!! IT'S A F***ING MIND TRICK, AND A CONSPIRACY! IT'S ALL AN OPTICAL ILLUSION CREATED BY THE ILLUMINATI, AND OUT THERE BY THE CHEMEKULLZ IN YOUR CHICKEN MUGGETS YO!!!!!!!!! IT ALL MAKES SENCE SO BAAAAM!!!!!!! THEY IT IS NUKKA I SOLVED THE MISTERY OF WHY MY MEAT BE LOOKIN SMALL IN DA PICS N' SHIT.
46. GRAMARNAZI - November 30, 2008 10:32 AM
YES, ....GINORMAGANTUAN understands!!>
...and should take his meds.
47. Jae - November 30, 2008 10:32 AM
looks like legos
48. dr.yosh - November 30, 2008 1:17 PM
get a life
49. big brown - November 30, 2008 1:37 PM
everyone get a life! i need to get one to! i think ill get one tomorrow, im too lazy today
50. Mark - December 1, 2008 4:00 AM
I can say that this def isnt fake
I was at the event
It was at the Brisbane Entertainment Center a few weeks ago in Queensland Australia
51. Beltxo - December 2, 2008 9:32 AM
Madrid Underground commercial mixing this technic with models:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMiZGRjJDEc
52. squz - May 19, 2009 10:24 AM
cool! check out mine tilt shift video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfd3rKNnsK0