{"id":26,"date":"2007-03-28T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/28\/muybridge-is-pretty-much-the-man\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T20:34:36","slug":"muybridge-is-pretty-much-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/28\/muybridge-is-pretty-much-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Muybridge is pretty much “the man”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I felt that I didn’t have enough time to sufficiently express my appreciate for Muybridge in my presentation today.\u00c2\u00a0 He developed instantaneous motion picture capture, and let me tell you why.\u00c2\u00a0 You see, in the late 1800s there was a popular debate going on about whether or not horses ran with their four legs all suspended at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 This view was called “unsupported transit.”\u00c2\u00a0 It was apparently a big deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, in 1872, the future governor of California Leland Stanford, who owned race horses, hired Muybridge to prove that horses had all four legs suspended at once.\u00c2\u00a0 Muybridge uses a series of 50 cameras along the race track that were triggered to go off by the horses hooves, which you can see here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out horses have all four legs in the air when they are UNDER the horse.<\/p>\n

This sort of technology inspired the U2 video for the song “Lemon,” which you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Techniques of this sort were also used in the Matrix, which you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And we should also mention Joseph Plateau, because he’s intense.\u00c2\u00a0 (This was the guy that invented the phenakistiscope.)\u00c2\u00a0 This guy was intense.\u00c2\u00a0 He was so interested in the effects of light on the retina (in your eye) that he did an experiment where he gazed into the sun for 25 seconds, and he went BLIND as a result.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

These people are awesome.<\/p>\n

“The fanatics, the madmen, the disinterested pioneers, capable, as was Berard Palissy, of burning their furniture for a few seconds of shaky images, are neither industrialists nor savants, just men obsessed by their own imaginings.\u00c2\u00a0 The cinema was born from the converging of these various obsessions, that is to say, out of a myth, the myth of total cinema”( Bazin 173).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I felt that I didn’t have enough time to sufficiently express my appreciate for Muybridge in my presentation today.\u00c2\u00a0 He developed instantaneous motion picture capture, and let me tell you why.\u00c2\u00a0 You see, in the late 1800s there was a popular debate going on about whether or not horses ran with their four legs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}