have you guys seen the movie barcode thing yet? has dr.morbz seen it?

actually got this from geeta via facebook:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/page/1

every frame of a movie in one image. so pretty! now someone should paint paintings of the images!

'the empire strikes back' would be pretty bipolar

now even momus can enjoy kill bill:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3509777216/1/tumblr_lh71ly1Q8Y1qhtovi

this one made me gasp

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3658592877/1/tumblr_lhk9t9D3Vi1qhtovi

bambi

There needs to be some way of searching. Trying to find if they've done the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Also, when I saw the title I thought it would be more like James Joyce as barcodes.

very neat

kinda wish the results weren't quite so abstract, all i can really do is look at the image, look at the movie title and go 'huh,' no use in studying it or thinking about it at all

There are some you could totally work out. Tron would be doable, and Delicatessen is pretty distinctive.

Rear Window actually looks like a piece of wood.

Also, I love that you can pick out the Intermission in Gone With the Wind.

These are pretty but I don't get much about the movie from most of them. It reminds me of a music performance where they stretched out Beethoven's 9th to 24 hours, and it just kind of sounded like prolonged howling

kinda wish the results weren't quite so abstract, all i can really do is look at the image, look at the movie title and go 'huh,' no use in studying it or thinking about it at all

― TIGER BLOOD aka the sheendriver (some dude), Monday, March 7, 2011 8:49 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what! its an interesting way to see at a glance how certain movies use color palettes, if nothing else

theoretically, sure, i just find the overall effect numbing. i'm saying this general idea is interesting but i feel like there's probably some other way this could be approached or presented that would actually be wild and fascinating to me and not just something to nod my head at and then forget about.

So does anyone know how this works?

Is each frame compressed into an image one pixel wide

good way to pick out the teal-and-orange-est movies

Yeah I am not quite getting this either and I'm usually well into this stuff (cf the extreme pixel-art cartoons thing). Is it a vertical 1-2 pixel wide sripe for each frame? Some colourisation aside they all look a bit samey to me, I certainly couldnt tell you what film was what (tho yes, something like tron'd be interesting)

I dont know why this bugs me, I like Rothko.

Tron is on there btw

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3500707114/tron-1982

O tron is in there nvm.

Suprised Wizard of Oz isnt more obviously grey-then-colourful.

xpost heh

Admittedly the white room section of 2001 is also cool.

ha i was just looking for wizard of oz and didn't see it, settled for pleasantville, which has a much more pronounced color/b&w contrast

Yeah I noted that too. WTH is "Shinboru", the last one? Its all white!

Ah wait the imdb explains that one. ha. I'd like to see that film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crq1xicOiko

if i saw these all huge in some gallery somwhere i would think they were pretty phat. even if i didn't know what they were.

kinda wanna check out shinboru now p much exclusively because of the weird color palette
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgzl3mlDx31qhtovio1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1299646429&Signature=efuzbr2ze%2BgKr3kOXiUZV2OwGHk%3D

anyone care to explain?

As I said upthread read the synopsis on imdb then you'll get it.

ha, sorry, i'll make an effort to be less impulsive when posting

I am very uninterested in this

what are the chances that this is complete bullshit?

also threeframes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this

some dude is right about it being numbing

I thought they just took every frame and overlaid it on top of one another

these kinda remind of Agnes Martin paintings, but not that much, really.

reminds me of that one japanese photographer would would expose a single frame for the length of a movie - so conceptually you'd have all of the movie on one single negative

hiroshi sugimoto

http://shootingarchitecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/sugimoto_artwork_images_139122_210553.jpg

So does anyone know how this works?

― badg, Tuesday, March 8, 2011 2:49 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark

The average color of each Frame condensed to a one pixel column.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/moviebarcode/art/6824093-5-moviebarcode-the-wizard-of-oz-1939-simplified-colors

Traffic one's pretty cool since that's exactly the kind of movie you watch being very conscious of the color palette and wondering how something like this would look

I thought they just took every frame and overlaid it on top of one another

think the result would just be a big, blurry black thing

You can tell the matrix is the matrix.
Hero would go on my wall.
Moon i like too.

really do like these, thanks scott steward

think the result would just be a big, blurry black thing

― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Tuesday, March 8, 2011 5:53 PM (1 hour ago)

Since it's colors of light instead of colors of ink, the aggregate would approach white, not black.

would like to see this for Deadwood so i can show ppl my aesthetic gripes. Also didn't Zhang Yimou's Hero have different color sections in the movie? Would stare at that for 5 or 10 seconds.

didn't Zhang Yimou's Hero have different color sections in the movie? Would stare at that for 5 or 10 seconds.

sugimoto is awesome--don't know about this tho

think the result would just be a big, blurry black thing

There's a woman doing something similar, she's combing the Internet for pictures taken by tourists of famous places (Taj Mahal, etc.) and then combining them all together - Idris Khan

Wait, no, it's Corinne Vionnet - Khan is doing something similar (merging photographs taken by Bernd and Hilla Becher).

http://api.ning.com:80/files/KshsYxsxv-i*mJGU3t*-FepubZUgIYSVF*RPJmuPt4bLf84IPffQ8G3nvyqmK4Lyz0jGUd0TQ2Qep9O3tC8tgjAD-nchZiBJ/corinnevionnet00.jpg

I saw that tourist photo project a few weeks ago. Really cool work imo.

How can this be one frame per pixel? at 24 fps, a 90-min film's barcode would be about 130,00 pixels wide and my monitor is only 1280 pixels wide. Also the 'average colour of a frame = one pixel column' wouldn't allow variation in colour down the same column.

The thing about the tourist pictures, though, is that even if they're not in exactly the same place, they're all pointing at the same subject. Most films aren't like this - imagine if you had a composite of St Paul's, the Taj Mahal, Mount Rushmore etc instead of a single landmark. The photos just wouldn't be discernible as anything.

this is awesome. in a lot of them the bars of color undulate in depth like a bridget riley painting. and you can totally see the way certain movies progress through different color schemes, very cool.

yeah, but more macro level stuff like palette might show through? xp

wish they would do this barcode thing for a B&W film for lols

there is a 'raging bull' one

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3582554570/raging-bull-1980

don't remember the moving having color scenes

would be kinda lol if they did schindler's list, and there was a single red pixel

^ SPOILER

I was thinking of those mobile QR codes that link to websites when you take a photo of them.

This is v cool, but the one thing I don't quite get is the barcodes that have a section of horizontal bands of color.

E.g., the middle of: http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3721599970/the-big-lebowski-1998

Does this suggest a static camera on a relatively composed tableau? (And if so, which scene would that be in The Big Lebowski?)

Hmmm, I think I definitely need to get plastered and see Speed Racer based on this:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3762222221/speed-racer-2008

Hmmm, I think I definitely need to get plastered and see Speed Racer based on this

i tried to watch it the other week coz the colours are famously incredible

buuuuuut

i forgot to get plastered first and it's kind of a boring kids' movie seen sober

http://vimeo.com/26584083

lol @ porn vs. soccer match