{"id":407,"date":"2009-12-08T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zatista.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:58:24","slug":"fruit-flies-godzilla-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2009\/12\/fruit-flies-godzilla-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Flies &amp; Godzilla Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching tiny art for my previous post, I came across some examples of art that were not small in size themselves. Instead, the artwork portrayed tiny subjects\u2014or subjects that at least appeared tiny.<\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s &#8220;The Picture Show&#8221; featured some extremely beautiful microscopic images assembled by scientists at the University of Wisconsin for an exhibit called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/pictureshow\/2009\/05\/teeny_tiny_art.html\">&#8220;Tiny: Art From Microscopes at UW-Madison.&#8221;<\/a> Who knew\u00a0fruit fly embryos and mouse lungs could be so gorgeous?<\/p>\n<p>A series of images from the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/pinktentacle.com\/2009\/04\/vintage-sketches-of-insects-under-the-microscope\/\">Pink Tentacle<\/a> shows paintings of tiny insects made with the aid of a microscope by the Japanese artist Kenbiky\u014d Mushi No Zu during the mid-nineteenth century. Below is one example of the paintings from the scroll.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_409\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"size-full wp-image-409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/vintage_insect_3.jpg\" alt=\"from Kenbiky\u014d Mushi No Zu's (\u201dIllustrations of Microscopic Insects\u201d), published in 1860\" width=\"468\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/vintage_insect_3.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/vintage_insect_3-400x302.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from Kenbiky\u014d Mushi No Zu&#39;s (\u201dIllustrations of Microscopic Insects\u201d), published in 1860<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tilt-shift photography, on the other hand, portrays full-scale images in a way that makes them appear to be miniature godzilla sets. While digital cameras create this effect via software, film cameras produce it with a special lens. Unlike a standard lens which have a fixed focal plane, a tilt-shift lens has a focal plane that can shift and concentrate the focus onto one point. The image below is a full-scale image of an airport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_408\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/lf2.jpg\" alt=\"Example of tilt-shift photography by Vincent Laforet for Smashing magazine\" width=\"463\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/lf2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/11\/lf2-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent Laforet for Smashing magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tilt-shift effect on video is even more disorienting. The people in them look like tiny claymation sculptures moved in increments from frame to frame. They&#8217;re not! Keith Loutit&#8217;s video, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1785993\">Beached<\/a>, is an awesome example that&#8217;s really worth watching. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching tiny art for my previous post, I came across some examples of art that were not small in size themselves. 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