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19. ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse!

by françois vautier

1 month ago

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14. "PIGALLE LA NUIT" title sequence

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13. arte thema "Dernier tango à PARIS"

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12. arte thema SCORCESS

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11. ARTE thema "été"

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10. arte thema HANZ

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7. DEJA VU short trailler HD

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6. DEJA VU trailer 4'50'' HD

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5. arte thema "BORNEO"

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4. LE P'TIT BLEU bande annonce

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3. arte thema "RUHR"

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2. ARTE thema ALMODOVAR

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1. pixel mds revisited

by françois vautier

1 year ago

I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago.
I scanned the nest each week.

music : Franks - Infected Mushroom.

il y a cinq ans j'ai installé une fourmilière dans mon vieux scanner. ce qui m'a permis de scanner en très haute définition ce microcosme (animal, végétal et minéral) en permanente évolution.

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Amaury Riega 1 month ago

Le retour du grand Vautier ! Magnifiquement texturé !
Vj Robson Victor 1 month ago

OUWOWWWWW YOURE A GENIOUS MAN !!
VERY GREAT STUFF !!!
jacob rendell 1 month ago

beautiful
Nilz 1 month ago

This is a really great idea. Lots of really interesting stuff happening. I am less attracted to the stylistic aspects of the video, like the vignetting and the music, but the ideas and the footage are fantastic. I really liked how you messed around with time, and didn't keep it chronological. Cool man.
jacob rendell 1 month ago

i think that when we have some footage such as this that is so unique, it is difficult to use additional effects without subtracting or destructing something, but i think in this context of a "music video" everything worked great. definitely nice use of the space.
Eugene 1 month ago

you have a good imagination!
Phil Schmidt 1 month ago

thats weird ;)
pls tell a bit about your setup.
Breezy 1 month ago

this was a really interesting idea
julia bühler 1 month ago

nice idea, but i'd wish to have seen more of the ants.
françois vautier 1 month ago

salut

you can see the ant's ghost...

+fvautier
Sam Shiryaykin 1 month ago

cool!
raymus 1 month ago

please do share more about how you did it!
Nick Tyson Kondo 1 month ago

Dude....creepy...weird....awesome!
Blake Whitman 1 month ago

what an AWESOME idea!
bliss productions 1 month ago

Incredible! I would love to know more about the process and how you achieved this.
Rickster 1 month ago

Wonderful, I look forward to your next timelapse, I'm just worried about how long I will have to wait!
TheFilm Artist 1 month ago

Amazingly amazing work, well done! :)) Added to vimeo.com/channels/worldhd
Kentiko 1 month ago

I LOVE it. Thank you very much :D
Ederer 1 month ago

wow...! O.O
Katherine Sweetman 1 month ago

serious commitment
Sarvesh K 1 month ago

Awesome work buddy!!!
I wish to try it.... so can you post a tutorial video on how you did this job?
Derek Mellott 1 month ago

+1
Thomas Jacob 1 month ago

wow. . really really cool!
TONY LARIOS 1 month ago

What the heck is this??? Pretty cool dude!
Brett Plank 1 month ago

weird...but awesome.
Kevin Robbins 1 month ago

interesting.
Martijn Doornenbal 1 month ago

yeah great idea!
Dex 1 month ago

Despite its greatness, i feel it can be better if you scanned it more often and produce a short film about the change for 4 seasons within one year, not 5 years (long time-span can make the subtle changes appear random instead of progressive).
françois vautier 1 month ago

salut
look at vimeo in a few month and you will have : Ants PART 2 (it will correspond to what you said)

à bientôt
+fvautier
(sorry for my bad english)
mpared 1 month ago

posted at the curious brain
Benjamin Franck 1 month ago

I love the idea !!
Et je vais continuer en français ce sera plus simple pour tous les deux: je me demande comment on peu scanner l'intérieur d'un scanner .... est-ce à l'aide d'un deuxième scanner ? Ou as-tu retourné la barrette CCD ?
Je suis vraiment curieux : )
toneburst 1 month ago

Brilliant!
It would also be great to see just the raw footage (I mean without the pan-and-scan). I'd love to see the entire scanner bed as the colony developed for the whole 5 year period.

Great work!

a|x
Risa Dickens 1 month ago

I ADORE this!!! So beautiful!! And COOOOL!!
City 17 Productions 1 month ago

genius idea, nice one looks awesome
Max Tubman 1 month ago

So we are looking at the bottom side of the scanner, how did you shoot this? Was the camera on some sort of 3 axis rail system? What did you do with the scanned images? awesome idea!
Scott Taradash 1 month ago

Brilliant and original.
Simon Victor 1 month ago

Brilliant
Ida Lindgren 1 month ago

wow, this is just so great!
David Scott McDougall 1 month ago

You are f'king awesome my friend.
Rainier Markmann 1 month ago

wow.. pretty amazing work :D
Joshua VP 1 month ago

That is unbelievable...very nice work..
Oscar Falcón Lara 1 month ago

Wow, fascinating and cool... interesting stuff.
XNOGRAFIKZ 1 month ago

Pure genius.
blobby barack 1 month ago

really cool textures and nice idea...i hope to see something more in less than 5 years :-)..
keep going with this king of setup it's awsome !!!
vimanaboy 1 month ago

very very cool... i would love to see a version w/o the effects, too
TwoThumbsFresh 1 month ago

Dude...seriously. wow.
Lau 1 month ago

amazing how your scanner still works despite the amount of gunk in it. doesn't the amount of moisture and plant growth affect the circuitry of the scanner? what brand is your scanner btw? gotta get me one of these.
kyogen 1 month ago

cool idea, and the result is pretty bloody awesome
Michael Cherdchupan 1 month ago

Absolutely AWESOME!
YOWAU 1 month ago

Amazing!
Yael Bedarshi 1 month ago

wow!
Michael Stern 1 month ago

Very cool, but where are the ants? It just looks like time lapse photography -- It would be cool if there were actual ants.
REEK FEEL 1 month ago

come on guys - it's not SOOO great and brilliant
- rather empty really
and there are no ants in it - ie it's all faked
nothing wrong with that of course
françois vautier 1 month ago

salut

be patient...I will present you the queen

fv
Corax Incarna 1 month ago

Scanning moving objects doesn't work so well. That's why there's no ants. Besides, who would care to fake it. Honestly.

It's a time lapse that took half a decade to make, at the very least that's worthy of appreciation.

à françois: très sympa! J'aime le style. La musique et tes décisions visuelles rendent le vidéo comme un urgent documentaire modern... j'aime beaucoup. As-tu des photos de la fourmilière à l'extérieur? Bravo pour ton dévouement, aussi. :) Et désolé pour mon français.
Amanda Leilani 1 month ago

yes
yess
YESS!
!!!!!!!!!!
Mirko Lalit Egger 1 month ago

that's awesome!
VEN 1 month ago

Wow, just wow.
bernd salewski 1 month ago

Beautiful images of decay. music is a bit awkward.
Luis Javier Funes 1 month ago

scanning every week for five years gives you 8 or 9 seconds of footage i think... from my point of view, cropping the original image was a really good idea, you have more details, beatiful frames, even when you´re watching the same footage looping. Great work man!
françois vautier 1 month ago

l
effectivly
thank for your interest.

+fv
bart zmuda 1 month ago

Very good Idea man!!! Really creative!
Matt Odom 1 month ago

True artistry takes patience, which you seem to have in spades. Congrats.
art IS twitter art 1 month ago

art IS installing an ant colony inside a scanner and scanning tHE nest each week for five Years twitter.com/art_IS_/status/20084517863
Joda Films 1 month ago

This is awesome. What dedication!
Lucas te Marvelde 1 month ago

What am i seeing here. Electronic components for instance. Is it the inside of the scanner, and do i just see photographs, and not the scans itself?
onuryayla 1 month ago

its antistique
Joe Moya 1 month ago

what a concept... dedicated creativity
Derrick G-L 1 month ago

it reminds me of a Zerg colony
Jason Ozaeta 1 month ago

Very interesting. Like the originality of this!
Matthew Skibicki 1 month ago

i like how you 'installed' an ant colony.
Marco Sperling 30 days ago

Was that bright white smear at 1:05 the ant queen or just a lot of ants ghosting?
I imagined this to be her white belly ... cool video :)
michal brzezinski 30 days ago

beauty! i want to have it on dvd or in big format - i want to show it in IN OUT Festival in CSW Laznia and in my gallery! perfect! beauty, light and easy going, very conceptual, humorous, and very very deep in the technology, ecology.... yes i very like it, :)
françois vautier 30 days ago

m
thank for your interest
i agree to your request

+fv
Tom Blachford 30 days ago

this is a wonderful community, and although i applaud your effort involved in your work, and usually look down on people who post negative comments.... this music really screws up your clips. there are numerous more modern and audibly pleasing genres you could have used, this garish techno synth crap has no place in wonderfully creative videos such as yours.
Jared Levy Media 30 days ago

This music is modern. It is made by Infected Mushroom. The band is from Tel Aviv and travels the world filling out sports stadium size arenas. In some unfortunately sad way I can understand why you would immediately throw out descriptions like "garish techno synth crap" but in reality this is a band that includes drums and a guitar. To watch these guys play this type of music live with real instruments helps you appreciate its artistry.
rory magnus 30 days ago

This is so F***ing awesome. I love being able to watch as nature slowly takes hold in a totally synthetic environment and reclaims it. A very powerful message delivered in an exquisitely beautiful and creative way.
Fou Brown 30 days ago

i've loved it!!
Gauth 30 days ago

Vraiment cool! Comme quoi la patience paye.. ; )
endolith 29 days ago

I don't get it. You put a mirror on the scanner so it could scan itself?
Martyn Randles 29 days ago

amazing work! 5 years of dedication, i love it, congrats sir :)
Brice Clocher 29 days ago

So great! Loved it!
Soe Lin 29 days ago

Cool vid. But my question is how you could "scan" when it looks like the electronic boards and chips in the scanner have already been deteriorated and weathered. ?? Are you saying the scanner never broke?
Alexander Kluge 28 days ago

I don't know exactly how you did (I know by scanning) but still it's not transparent to me...*hmm*

Artistically great!!
godino 28 days ago

Super,great video!
marc russo 28 days ago

I am going to have to say I love this idea. I have loved ant farms for a while and this is a unique perspective on them.
Thanks for the live and scans

Marc
insectkits.com
reaktorplayer 27 days ago

Just WOW!
Paul Davis 24 days ago

Unreal! Surreal! Amazing!
sanytch 24 days ago

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kyogen 23 days ago

one of the most interesting videos on this site
Digital Media Jockey 23 days ago

very creative work. Thank you.
Little Shiva 15 days ago

génial!
PrackVJ 8 days ago

it's amazing! i love the "david bowie outside era/ marilyn manson" video style... as someone says looks lovely creepy... congrats too!
Agostino Zamboni 8 days ago

Evil genius is reductive! and Bravo too! Wordless
Retner 1 day ago

excellent!
Bud Latanville 22 hours ago

first: your near-pathological patience is to be commended!

second: I wonder what kind of religion the ants may have started based on the weekly "bright light beam" that passed over their community?