Nowhere Near Here
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6. Nowhere Near Here
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If life is a catwalk, run like a dog.
'Nowhere Near Here' is a stop motion animation that uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, in Coventry, on the 7th October 2010.
With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting 'Nowhere Near Here', I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.
This is street art, this is life and thank you for watching.
...for those of you that may be interested in prints, a selection of film stills from 'Nowhere Near Here' are currently available at pahnl.co.uk/store.php
Animation by Pahnl
- pahnl.co.uk
'Nowhere Near Here' is a stop motion animation that uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, in Coventry, on the 7th October 2010.
With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting 'Nowhere Near Here', I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.
This is street art, this is life and thank you for watching.
...for those of you that may be interested in prints, a selection of film stills from 'Nowhere Near Here' are currently available at pahnl.co.uk/store.php
Animation by Pahnl
- pahnl.co.uk
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brilliant light painting with stencils.
would love to see footage of you setting up the shots.
Gr8 work mate.
Cheers mate ;D
perfect video, perfect music!
By watching this video I fall in dream!
I love it, waiting for more.
thank you very very very very very mutch!
Would love to see how you made it
pahnl.co.uk/nnh_phot/bins_sketch_22.jpg
pahnl.co.uk/nnh_phot/traffic_sketch_22.jpg
And scene notes I used during production out at night:
pahnl.co.uk/nnh_phot/production_sketch1_22.jpg
pahnl.co.uk/nnh_phot/production_sketch2_22.jpg
No photos of me setting up however, as it was just me and my one camera.
Cheer, Maurice!
which camera and lens have u used?
I used a Nikon D90 with a range of lenses that included Nikkor 35mm, 18-55 and 50-200mm.
In my opinion, one of the MOST CREATIVE animation I've ever seen!
It has a great "sorty-line" (if you would call it that) and it made me laugh :D
This said, being a musician myself, may I say that crediting Röyksopp ("What Else is There?") for the music could be a good (and normal) move?... ;-)
Off I go!
;-)
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Brilliant!!!
it's for our pleasure you run
but don't follow no cats
I bet many many screens
will adopt you
It's interesting how street art has now expanded to multimedia. Interesting and inspiring :-)
And the music fits so well. Thank you again for sharing it here.
It would be interesting to hear further of the audio project but possibly with more method and structure. For example, recording five seconds of audio for every five minutes of a walk, maybe pairing it with a still photograph of that five second moment.
Thank you.
Great shots of 'Team Kick' with the repeating reflection, nicely taken.
How did you do that? Spray, clean cuts and digital pasting or some? (Or have I done to much graffs to miss some word association?)
And I like your way of commenting your comments too ;-p A hard work of art is worth the interest!
Keep the good stuff coming maestro B-)
- Jan
Cheers, Jan, and, as for shutterspeed, it hugely varied on what type of scene I was shooting and what light was in frame.
The characters are protrayed simply by flashing/shining light through a stencil that's aimed at the camera. It all involves a crazy amount of numbers, measurements and convention.
Is really awesome!
Is weird but makes me feel nostalgic (in a very good way)
I love it.
♡
At the very start I was put off but the very low frame rate and jerky style this creates but only momentarily because as soon as I recognised the song I could see the match you'd made and I think it works very well.
+ respect for the work put into it.