https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tEOejLd-c
A haunting pre-lockdown short by Geoffrey De Crécy.
An ode to the solitude of machines.
Mmf.
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The only car on the northbound side of the M50 at 11am this morning. These are strange times @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/n99si7U5D0
— Simon Judge (@simonjuj) April 5, 2020
Yesterday.
San Francisco in quarantine by drone – an eerie sight for those who know the place – Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown, Market Street, the Haight – all deserted, apart from a few stragglers.
Now how about empty Vienna?
Or empty London.
Or empty Manhattan.
Or empty Dublin.
The work of Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester – familiar old canvases with the humans removed – newly apposite in the current climate.
(Above (from top): Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” (1498); Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” (c.1486); Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808” (1814); Jan Vermeer’s “The Allegory of Painting” (1668); Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” (1937); Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” (1656) and Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of Medusa” (1819)
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Hypocentre – an unnerving short by filmmakers Claire and Maxime that depicts Paris (like the opening scene of London in 28 Days Later, but actually inspired by Ross Ching’s Empty America series) completely devoid of people.
They explain the hows and whys here.
Just in time for Prespocalypse 2012 – the latest eerily depopulated timelapsed cityscape from Ross Ching’s Empty America series.
Electionsville.
Vacated for real by Hurricane Sandy in the last few days, this is New York, digitally voided of its population via Photoshop and After Effects as part of director Ross Ching’s ongoing Empty America series.
Previously: Seattle and San Francisco
Director Ross Ching used Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere to remove every human being and moving vehicle from this accomplished but slightly creepy time lapse of San Francisco: the first in a series called Empty America.