Canberra, Australia is a city of few highlights, but one genuinely cool thing it does have going for it is the Australian War Memorial. A place that now houses in its collection surely one of this centuryâs greatest works of art.
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Howâd he do it? He broke the movie down into frames, then collapsed those frames âinto a single image, averaged according to the colour value of each frameâ.
Once you know that, you can see it. OrâŠsee the bits where theyâre flying in the desert and the bits where theyâre flying over the ocean.
His website describes the result as âa condensed visual essence of the entire film. A reference to the true nature of moving images as illusory series of stills, this image is everything that Top Gun is not; slow, meditative, deeply rich and quietly intense.â
Um, excuse me, there is no scene more âdeeply richâ or âquietly intenseâ in all of cinema than this.
Top Gun [Baden Pailthorpe, via Canberra Times]
