Archive for the 'Videos' Category

This is another one of the video experiments that we have been showing on Photo of the Day. This one utilises an image from the Tyrrell photographic collection titled Martin Place. The original glass plate negative was photographed sometime between 1884 and 1917 and shows a very different Martin Place to what we see today. See if you can spot the man looking over the fence at something during this video experiment. What would he be looking at?

Photography by Kerry and Co
Video experiment by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
Music: "Cilantro" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-2.0 Generic

This video exploration has been made using one of the images from the Phillips photographic collection titled ‘View of a picnic scene’ uploaded to the Commons on Flickr. We have been wondering if perhaps the photographer may be present in this group portrait. We believe the photographer to be Arthur Phillips and there are the initials ‘AP’ scratched into the reverse of the glass plate negative located on the billycan at the front of the image. We’d love to know how you feel about seeing the stills in this video format.

Music: "The Garden" by Torley (CC-BY-SA)
Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

This is another video experiment using an image from the Commons project on Flickr. This video is made up of many details from this image ’Wool classing’ that comes from our Tyrrell photographic collection.

Jean-Francois has produced a number of these short video stories and he gets to see the details produced when doing high resolution scans from these glass plate negatives. There are a lot of discoveries to be made from these original images. He notes:
“A bit of wool flies up in the air and reaches a beam under the roof where it gets hooked. From there it watches the men working all day, lifting, spreading, classing and packing up the wool. They stop and take the pose for a photo. The time has stopped its course, the bit of wool has stopped its flight and their faces will never grow old under the roof of the woolshed.”

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic
Music: "The efforts of weaklings" by Torley (CC-BY-SA).

A few posts ago we highlighted the first video experiment exploring ‘On the wallaby track’ to see how we could take the details from our high-res scans and let you experience these in another form. We have decided to make more of these video experiments, so here is the second one we loaded to Flickr yesterday. This video uses one image from the Commons project titled ‘The Bandstand, Hyde Park’ that comes from our Tyrrell photographic collection.

Jean-Francois remarks:

“Some lay on the lawn, some sit on a bench, kids run around and the young women walk. Some observe, some seem to listen; some talk and others have a laugh. Captain Cook from his pedestal observes this crowd but no one looks at him. It must be Sunday, it’s overcast, the fig trees are not so big and they all gather in Hyde Park. How does the music go…?”

We would love your feedback on these video stories!

Video story by Jean-Francois Lanzarone
License: Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic

We’ve been experimenting with a few ways of showing up some of the amazing and often hidden details in some of the Tyrrell images we are putting up into the Commons.

Jean-Francois Lanzarone put this little test video together in an hour today. This one reveals the detail of ‘On the wallaby track’ that shows the high resolutions that we scan these glass plate negatives at.

View the original image in the Commons on Flickr.
Or on the Powerhouse Museum’s own website.

We will be making a few more of these over the coming months an experimenting with a few different formats and styles. We’d love your feedback.