by douglas » Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:09 pm
Chris Peterson wrote:douglas wrote:Chris Peterson wrote:
And there are hundreds of videos and thousands of images out there serving that purpose. But that wasn't the intent of this video. It wasn't supposed to teach us anything about Saturn, but rather, to offer a kind of gestalt view of the Cassini mission, to saturate our senses with the huge range of data that was collected.
I've viewed some number of Vimeos and I've never seen one that played at that speed. Many of the images require a moment to orient the spatial setup so stacking them rapid-fire is really not a good idea.
I think what is obvious is Mr. Abbas has certainly expressed he's capable of putting together a very good video, but what we're seeing there is a product of some production pressure. That's what was 'taught'. The gestalt of Cassini is not a hurried presentation, to be sure, nor is it something to the effect of 'they'll take what we give them', now, is it? Nor 'hold your tongue'? Heh.
Well, Mr Abbas can comment if he'd like, but my take is that it's playing exactly as intended (and personally, I think it works very well this way).
Here's his vimeo page,
https://vimeo.com/search?q=chris+abbas
He looks to have added to this, and sped it up.
https://vimeo.com/56694843
Check it out at 1:25 - 1:30, moon looking retrograde from Cassini's perspective? Impossibly cool.
Same moon clip in this one at :50 mark,
https://vimeo.com/153636281
Same speed feature in that video, too, so that's artistic license.
A tip to Mr. Abbas: a god of that grandeur is so far beyond words, speaking, or names as to render them useless. In fact, words used to address such a god would be indicative of anxiety in one's relation to that god. Foregone.
Another tip to Mr. Abbas: when your source photographer is a robot, it deprives a viewer of a photo the effect of the human mind's presence in taking the picture. Stacking a robot's pictures makes it very, very hard to be 'telepresent' in the photo. A fast-presented robot stack is beyond a human's capability of appreciation. Perhaps the intent was to celebrate a robot's presence? (slow it down)
And this,
https://vimeo.com/37761054
https://vimeo.com/35878660
He has certainly done justice to the exoticness of Saturn's system.
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="douglas"][quote="Chris Peterson"]
And there are hundreds of videos and thousands of images out there serving that purpose. But that wasn't the intent of this video. It wasn't supposed to teach us anything about Saturn, but rather, to offer a kind of gestalt view of the Cassini mission, to saturate our senses with the huge range of data that was collected.[/quote]
I've viewed some number of Vimeos and I've never seen one that played at that speed. Many of the images require a moment to orient the spatial setup so stacking them rapid-fire is really not a good idea.
I think what is obvious is Mr. Abbas has certainly expressed he's capable of putting together a very good video, but what we're seeing there is a product of some production pressure. That's what was 'taught'. The gestalt of Cassini is not a hurried presentation, to be sure, nor is it something to the effect of 'they'll take what we give them', now, is it? Nor 'hold your tongue'? Heh.[/quote]
Well, Mr Abbas can comment if he'd like, but my take is that it's playing exactly as intended (and personally, I think it works very well this way).[/quote]
Here's his vimeo page,
https://vimeo.com/search?q=chris+abbas
He looks to have added to this, and sped it up.
https://vimeo.com/56694843
Check it out at 1:25 - 1:30, moon looking retrograde from Cassini's perspective? Impossibly cool.
Same moon clip in this one at :50 mark, https://vimeo.com/153636281
Same speed feature in that video, too, so that's artistic license.
A tip to Mr. Abbas: a god of that grandeur is so far beyond words, speaking, or names as to render them useless. In fact, words used to address such a god would be indicative of anxiety in one's relation to that god. Foregone.
Another tip to Mr. Abbas: when your source photographer is a robot, it deprives a viewer of a photo the effect of the human mind's presence in taking the picture. Stacking a robot's pictures makes it very, very hard to be 'telepresent' in the photo. A fast-presented robot stack is beyond a human's capability of appreciation. Perhaps the intent was to celebrate a robot's presence? (slow it down)
And this, https://vimeo.com/37761054
https://vimeo.com/35878660
He has certainly done justice to the exoticness of Saturn's system.