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Six years of Noah
A fascinating photo montage of a man aging at warp speed.
K.L. [2006-09-05]
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  • A Companion Video on AtomFilms

    Viewers may also be interested in a similar video by Ahree Lee here: http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/me

    Both of these are wonderful, and I hope that the artists keep them going for many years and that we are all around to marvel at them.

    -- esseff
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    Tuesday, September 5, 2006 12:03 PM

  • Hmm.... Must find newborn...

    Imagine doing the same thing with a newborn baby to age 18. Now that would be a compelling transformation.

    -- ssuminski
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    Tuesday, September 5, 2006 03:43 PM

  • Tremendously Jealous

    I wish I had done this for myself! Perhaps some of us change more drastically than Noah, but I found his dedication inspiring. And narcissistic? No, he simply used the most easily available subject matter for this fantastic excercise.

    -- Eric
    Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:54 AM

  • I liked both clips.

    That was very interesting. Did anybody notice that he shops at IKEA?

    And yes we know how this ends. Your comment on that reminds me that I come from a long line of dead people.

    -- gttim
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    Wednesday, September 6, 2006 01:05 PM

  • what doesn't change/what does

    Noah's face, expression (or lack of) are always the same. Five minutes is a long time to look at the same thing, so I found myself looking for the changes in his shirt (sometimes no shirt) and the background (I didn't pick up on IKEA, I just saw nothing interesting). Finally what leaves an impression is his hair, which grows, is cut, grows again, and seems never to be combed in any particular way. The montage makes it seem as if he is in a wind as the images flash by.

    A person so boring that his hair is the most interesting thing about him. It's one level up from watching paint dry.

    -- Joan Strand
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    Wednesday, September 6, 2006 09:53 PM

  • Music

    Surely if not a straight lift, the music is highly derivative of that which accompanies the more reflective parts of "The Truman Show"? Maybe that's intentional.

    -- DL
    Thursday, September 7, 2006 01:35 AM

  • Noah

    What a wonderful gift. It is akin to the life gift Rembrandt gave us but on a technically updated format. Life as art. A life encapsulated from one point of view that breaths volumns. I will be checking on this project for as long as I am able. Noah is a great subject. But then, all of us would be. Also, it may prove to be a documentary of the last of a dying species.

    By-the-by, no one seemed to notice that it coincides with the Bush era.

    We should do this for every human certainly, and for other Earthlings as well.

    -- schmocker
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    Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:33 AM

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