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Grow hedges and trim them, slightly differently each time, photograph
them and put the result into a cine film in order to create animation.
Each frame takes a year or so to create, a second of animation around
24 years and a five minute film about seven thousand years. As with
the Clock of the
Long Now, design the equipment and medium so that
it would continue to be available and workable for that long.
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As a guy who will attempt to bonsai almost anything that stands still, this sounds like good clean fun (+) |
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Is this like watching the grass grow or watching paint dry? Could this equipment also be used to record stop motion animations of rocks eroding, perhaps a 1 hour film, that takes about 420 000 years to record, would show erosion of a cliff face. Not exactly sure what the future humanity would use this for, but certainly a camera that lasts that long would be great for recording historical events. |
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One of the best short films I ever saw was a stop motion of a glacier. One frame a day I think. It finished in a spring storm when the camera fell over. |
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Come to think of it, smaller plants might work more quickly
although I think bonsai are slow-growing, are they not
[normzone]? |
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More like watching the grass grow and yes there are other
applications. |
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This is, if I may say so (and I may), a brilliant idea. |
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Downside: when you're 38 years through a 98 year-
long sequence, some smartarse will put a CGI topiary
animated cat on YouTube, and it will look far better. |
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