Thursday, December 17, 2009

Nico Vassilaskis's Hellenic Swim had a number of interesting visual uses of text. While the images within the video are obviously letters, there is a multicolor filter placed on top of it, which is constantly blending the color preceding it into the next. With this, it takes on a considerably more psychedelic view, but creates the illusion of movement, despite the lack of motion on the letters part. I thought this was interesting because it made the movement of the letters appear to be that of a bacteria culture. The extreme zooming in on microscopic life has a similar look to the appearance of the Hellenic Swim. It creates the illusion of life and movement upon still letters.

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