This. (A promotion for Onitsuka/Asics.) I found the origami artist Sipho Mabona‘s beautiful, detailed work online last month while prepping for Chicago (see last post), and I emailed him about his technique for getting such smooth and precise stop-motion animation with paper (naturally, the title of this sequence below is “In the Pursuit of Perfection”). I won’t reveal his secret here, but I’ll say that it helped a TON during the meditative hours upon hours of shooting my little film still-by-still. Mine was a simple effort, inspired by this amazing feat:

And this (below) is a perfect small thing. (thanks Marie!)
Scanned film pictures taken with a Nikon F65 and expired neopan film || music: Ólafur Arnalds “Elra’s Walz” (2009)

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