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As in earlier posts the camera's exposure time is set to five seconds: After shutter release I run with two flash lights - moving my arms - voilà - light painting.

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A diptysch of two contrasting fragments with an asymetrical time line. One fragment of 4 seconds plus one of 1 second. -The outdoor fragment is taken at Beurstraverse in Rotterdam-

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A sequence of five images (one image/sec) showing a close-up of a lake in the Vienna Woods. Like a painting in change.

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Again a 5 second shutter speed image (nearly same spot as five second(5)). This time without a tripod. The shaking of the arm results of course in blurred photography - and a "paintwork effect". 

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The room shown in the movie is one out of four rooms for installation 'untitled' (2011) by Tomo Savić-Gecan. He made his perfect installation for the Witte de With exhibition Melanchotopia in Rotterdam. The text on the wall explains: "Every change in temperature in the city of Rotterdam causes one of the spaces in Witte de With to open and close." Technical interaction by Kees Reedijk. In his play with the idea of interaction time becomes it's tension. How long do you watch to this installation? The movie takes 40 seconds. Would 5 seconds have been enough also?

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Creature differ in time sense. Does a mouse really live a faster life than an elephant. 500 beats per second vs. 28? The heartbeat seems to rhythm us.

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Always somehow like clocks on buildings. It allows you to fantasize how much the building is constructed for carrying the clock. A beautiful idea.
How could a five second clock look like? This is an attempt with the Rotterdam town hall.

Each frame of this loop is 1 second. Five frames make a round around the clock. The loop consists of 10 rounds.

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This evening shot was taken with a shutter speed of exactly five seconds. It is an image of the "Jonas-Reindl" - an inner city tramway junction in Vienna. Built in 1962, trams operate on two levels - connected to a parking garage and a subway line. Simply a nice place to spot urban movement.

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In this loop 2,80 seconds of bee movement is repeated 10 times.
Complex bee movement in front of the opening slots. Although the bees fly at high speed the cloud doesn't seem to move. It deforms, blocks the opening or hits the box. When you put your hand on the screen in a way that it only covers the cloud the bees seem to fly directly into the slot.
Also here less than five seconds of movement seem enough to show an endless loop.
'Bees' is shot at the installation 'Why we fly / Why we die', Stadtimkerei Finger by Florian Haas & Andreas Wolf at the Kunstfort in Vijfhuizen.

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Video "Swim and Nothing" from Laura Glusman, taken from the exhibition Höhenrausch 2, in Linz. Despite continuous motion, the swimmer does not move. A five second swimming movement maybe sufficient to record an endless loop.

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This movie is taken at the ringroad A10 in Amsterdam. It's a loop of 4:57 seconds repeating. The car in front has a similar speed (80 km/h) as the car in the back. The perspective manipulates the image of speed.


 

Five Seconds (1).

What can happen in five seconds? What can change? What can be compressed to it? Is it long? Is it short?

I start with an (urban) myth: the five-second rule. "food dropped on the ground will not be contaminated with bacteria if it is picked up within five seconds of being dropped." Lekker!

(image source wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Five_second.png)