10/08/12

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32445187?color=ffffff" width="500" height="369" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/32445187">underwater friends</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3191047">anne imal</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

I chose this video "underwater friends" because I think it relates to presenting a 2D image in 3D form. Videos in themselves are continuous images strung together, so if you were to pause this video at any time, I think it would make an interesting, abstracted image. I really like the strangeness of this video and how the creator took something that is already weird looking, and made it look even more foreign through manipulation of the imagery and the sound. The way jellyfish pulse through the water, paired with the pulse you hear from what sounds like the respirator of a scuba diver, are complimentary of each other. The tentacles of the jellyfish come together and separate, creating different shapes in a hypnotic way. I enjoy the progression of the video. In the beginning of the video it is evident that you are looking at a jellyfish in a tank. You see the bell of the jellyfish and can recognized it's movement, the background is blue like water, and you can clearly hear a divers respirator. As the video continues the subject becomes more focused on the tentacles of the jellyfish creating beautiful shapes, and the color shift can no longer be associated with a jellyfish in a tank. The video then becomes completely abstracted when the imagery and sound slows down. The respirated breathing turns into a very eerie sound, like an alien or creature in a science fiction movie and the isolated tentacles that fade in and out, and merge and separate are not recognizable. If I did not see the beginning of the video, and only the end, I would not know that the structures in the video were part of a jellyfish. I enjoyed this video because I went from recognizing it as a jellyfish in a tank, to feeling like I was experiencing something foreign, something that I didn't know. I think the progression that occurs in this video is also related to how an artist chooses to display their work, because an image that is displayed in a 3D way takes on a different meaning and life, just like the transformation of the jellyfish and how it is manipulated and turned into something else.