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have spent maybe my entire adult life dreaming that i'd be able to capture 3d spaces with some utopian 3d vr thing and now i'm like. no you idiot you can just record video. put a huge cheap microsd card in your potatophone and start recording video. video is magical
you're a dreamer, aren't you? you can see and explore the worlds without from within? then you should shoot video
these words are only for myself, to be clear. but
shoot video of things that don't move. shoot video of things that don't change. shoot video in terrible lighting conditions, in terrible audio conditions, with terrible equipment. shoot video at incomprehensible angles with an eye that wanders into fantasy. shoot video, damnit
‪how am i to guide myself to see what i see if i'm not there to do it? can i love a point cloud? i can't. but i can love the camera that floats through the air with whimsical motions, because she is me‬
dance through life and let the camera follow you, and maybe, just maybe, a slightly larger 1% of the dream will leak through the h.264 compressed frames
you know what you love, hikari? motion! parallax! depth! the equally boundless infinity on the other side of the reflection! the unique perspective of the observer! the gaze! the bird that turns the head! the movement of the leaves! and what can you not capture in stills? yes
‪you thought you could never convey the whole space? yes, you can't, and you never will, but 60 photos per second will make it so much easier‬
‪you can't bring the fog back, but you can take someone on a journey through it, and maybe they'll find themselves there‬
it's already reaped its dividends. my banner image on twitter and fedi (not on the sky website, ironically) is a composite of two frames from the day i leaned on the edge of the sky. never, never, could i have captured that with a photo