Shot using Nikon D200 over the course of 2 hours at various locations around Central Park. Tilt-shift effect added in post-processing. Edited using ImageMagick, mencoder, and Cinelerra. Music: Atomica Project – Jetstreams (Instrumental) under Creative Commons NC license via BeatPick.com.
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Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York, to Joseph Cornell, a well-to-do designer and merchant of textiles, and Helen TenBroeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a kindergarten teacher. The Cornells had four children: Joseph, Elizabeth (b. 1905), Helen (b. 1906), and Robert (b. 1910). Both parents came from socially prominent families of Dutch ancestry, long-established in New York State. Cornell’s father died in 1917, leaving the family in straitened circumstances. Following the elder Cornell’s death, his wife and children moved to the borough of Queens in New York City. Cornell attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in the class of 1921, although he did not graduate. Except for the three and a half years he spent at Phillips, he lived for most of his life in a small, wooden-frame house on Utopia Parkway in a working-class area of Flushing, along with his mother and his brother Robert, whom cerebral palsy had rendered physically challenged.[2][3] Cornell was wary of strangers. This led him to isolate himself and become a self-taught artist.[3] Although he expressed attraction to unattainable women like Lauren Bacall, his shyness made romantic relationships almost impossible. In later life his bashfulness verged toward reclusiveness, and he rarely left the state of New York. However, he preferred talking with women, and often made their husbands wait in the next room when he discussed business with them.[4] He also had numerous friendships with …
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Sweeeeet Video!
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I think it’s actually mostly 1 fps. In retrospect, some sequences, like the carousel one, could’ve used an even higher frame rate. If space is not an issue, it’s easier to always shoot fast, and speed up the video in post if necessary.
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what interval did you shoot? every 2 or 5 seconds?
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By all means. It’s creative commons attribution licensed.
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do you mind if I use some of your footage for my video?
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Great work! Many life on the stage.Check my time-lapse from my city in Czech republic…
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Nikkor 12-24mm
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wat lens are you using?
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Wow, very impressive.
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Some of these are just incredible. Modern day mimics of his art don’t seem to understand how to infuse their assemblages with meaning. Cornell was brilliant at it.
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Fantastic!!!!
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lovely video, great soundtrack..reminds me of magical sundays we used to spend with joe at his home on utopia parkway back in the 60′s…see image on youtube video “Top Hat”
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Joseph Cornell is brilliant, has anybody knows the soundtrack?
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Lost in Silence – the music reinforces the quiet. Lovely
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I am fascinated by the worlds he created. Thank you for sharing them. I love Lee Miller’s portrait of Cornell.
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great art asks for little
but gives plenty
subtle is sweet
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Boxes, cages and aquariums for dreams. Always fascinating!
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<3 x 10
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