{"id":5601,"date":"2017-06-19T18:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T01:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2017-06-19T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T01:25:23","slug":"photography-swirling-rays-knot-holes-termites-and-rot-inside-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/photography-swirling-rays-knot-holes-termites-and-rot-inside-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: &#8220;Swirling rays, knot holes, termites and rot&#8221; inside wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a hypnotic tour through the inside of wood (really!) courtesy of engineer\/animator Brett Foxwell and musician\/animator Conor Grebel. As Colossal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2017\/06\/woodswimmer-stop-motion-film\/\">notes<\/a>, \u201cWatching this full-screen in HD with sound makes all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3OLZ8VrH6AA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFascinated with the shapes and textures found in both newly-cut and long-dead pieces of wood, I envisioned a world composed entirely of these forms,\u201d Foxwell told Colossal. \u201cAs I began to engage with the material, I conceived a method using a milling machine and an animation camera setup to scan through a wood sample photographically and capture its entire structure. Although a difficult and tedious technique to refine, it yielded gorgeous imagery at once abstract and very real. Between the twisting growth rings, swirling rays, knot holes, termites and rot, I found there is a lot going on inside of wood.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NewImage-15.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NewImage-16.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3OLZ8VrH6AA\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/06\/woodswimmmer-a-gorgeous-stop-motion-journey-through-wood\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a hypnotic tour through the inside of wood (really!) courtesy of engineer\/animator Brett Foxwell and musician\/animator Conor Grebel. As Colossal notes, \u201cWatching this full-screen in HD with sound makes all the difference.\u201d \u201cFascinated with the shapes and textures found in both newly-cut and long-dead pieces of wood, I envisioned a world composed entirely of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}