The persistence of vision is when images are shown so quickly that the viewer sees it as a continuous moving image rather than several still images. This is a type of optical illusion, like most of animation.

 

I was drawn to this collage mainly because of how busy it was and how much was going on. What makes this piece successful to me is the fact that every square was a different scene so you could look at it for as long as you’d like and it would be very rare for you to see the same thing in two different squares. It was really cool to see all of these put together in a moving collage which made me distracted, but in a good way which is not something that can be experienced very often.

Similarly to the collage above, I was drawn to this piece due to the business of it. I enjoyed how much was going on at once and it was really interesting to see how live TV was produced especially sports games. I sat down and watched this for about 20-25 minutes and I never got bored with it. I found it so intriguing how everything worked together so well and how the director (so to speak) was able to choose which cameras to use and when and still make the live production look good, almost as if it had been edited prior to airing.

A common theme throughout these past three pieces is how ornate and busy they are which also correlates to this last piece. I was really drawn to this piece because of how the strobe affected the object. I found it so crazy how a simple light fixture can create a whole scene out of a moving object. I tried to capture this as best as I could on my phone camera, but it was difficult to get the timing of the strobe perfectly in order to capture the moving image it was producing. (Side note: the left side is with only the strobe lights and the right is with no strobe, but regular lights.)