Slow Dance
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Slow Dance is a picture frame that does the impossible, make objects appear to move in slow motion.
An original artwork by Jeff Lieberman.
Ebonized Ash
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$399
Light Pine
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$399
Craft Pine
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$399
Original Art by Jeff Lieberman
As an artist, I’ve always been mystified about the things that are invisible to the naked eye, whether because they are too small, too fast, or just out of the range of what the eye can sense — and the feeling that we get being able to peer into otherwise invisible worlds.
As a former scientist, I’m mystified in a different way — by the very processes that make perception possible, and how our consciousness is structured and gives rise to experience.
Inspired by Harold "Doc" Edgerton
When I was in graduate school at MIT, I heard about a legendary class called ‘Strobe Lab’ where they teach the original slow motion (and other) imaging techniques invented by Doc Edgerton.
I would spend long hours in his old lab, setting up elaborate schemes to capture subjects that would be impossible to see with the naked eye.
When Discovery Channel was looking for someone to both take ultra-slow motion video, and discuss the science of what we saw, they contacted the Edgerton Lab who recommended me their way, and for three years I hosted ‘Time Warp,’ using technology to see the (otherwise) invisible.
Eureka!
When my closest friend from college Eric was marrying my new friend Emily, I considered it the time to give them a once-in-a-lifetime gift. They were both dancers, and so I immediately thought about creating something where two ‘opposites’ danced with one another.
I had been playing for years with techniques that allowed me to use high-speed stroboscopy to make things look like they were moving in slow motion. But after weeks of hand-designing dozens of objects that might vibrate in interesting ways, I was stuck — none of them had the wondrous impact I was searching for. Somehow they didn’t surprise me enough as a viewer to create impact. I went for a frustrated walk around the block of my office thinking “What is missing? Why can’t I design something that looks incredible to see moving in slow motion?” Lost in thought, a branch hit me in the face. I looked at the branch.
It was a Eureka moment. That pine branch was more beautiful than anything I as a person could design, and had evolved over millions of years to vibrate in the wind. I looked all around the environment — branches, flowers, feathers and more — with a sense of awe suddenly realizing that nature had designed millions of artifacts more beautiful than I ever would. And using what I knew, I could make them look like they were dancing impossibly, in slow motion.
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