Something entirely new. Not movies, not pictures: moving pictures.

02 May 11

By: Phil
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Thank you Mr Kershaw for bringing to my attention a brilliant innovation which combines video and stills photography to create moving pictures. 

Not movies, not pictures but moving pictures.

Genius.

Two artists have created a new way to to record your special moments - pictures with movement. It is, in their own words, ‘something more than a photo but less than a video’.

The ‘cinemagraphs’ look like still photos but actually feature a subtle area of movement designed to grab your eye and keep you looking. The effect is slightly eerie - but utterly captivating.

Check out the link below for more.

(What Mr Kershaw is doing reading the Daily Mail, even online, we'll come back to. Still, they did run this article...)

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Phil Keevill
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