Music Video made of 45,000 still photos

By: Rustycat | in: Music |

Long Day

While all the music video directors out there are trying to make HD happen, Cesar Kuriyama, a New York based animator and lighting technical director, decided to go old school animation like and create a music video out of 45,000 still photos.
The video was brilliantly shot with a Nikon D200 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) at 4 pictures per second rate. Basically, the director, alongside his photography director Tommy Agriodimas, shot bursts of photos several times of each scene and ended up editing the photos to reach 24 frames per second. And viola – a music video that looks like it was almost shot with a regular video camera - but much more unique.
The video was made for the band Fat City Reprise and premiered at their Philadelphia concert. The song is not half bad as well, even though it kinda reminds me of System of a Down’s ‘Lonely Day’ track…but that’s just me.
It’s always good seeing how these little innovations and ideas make it through the blog sphere and get the proper attention they deserve.

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone

Fat City Reprise - Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

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Posted on December 7, 2008

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5 Responses to “Music Video made of 45,000 still photos”

kendall on December 7th, 2008 7:18 am

This is a really cool video. It reminds me of the way the girl from the Ring moves, minus the creepy factor.

Jennifer McCullough on December 7th, 2008 6:28 pm

I absolutely LOVE this video. On the bands site it says the little green guy represents heroin, makes alot of sense now after watching it again…Great song too

brad on December 7th, 2008 9:01 pm

Interesting style, trippy video. I can’t decide if I like the song or not.

scott on December 12th, 2008 8:01 am

Ummm…you guys do know that the Smashing Pumpkins did this like, 10 years ago? YouTube the video for “Thirty-Three”.