Respect Authority

Last week, I wrote about Australian photographer Ben Thomas’ use of the tilt shift technique in photography. Apparently he’s not the only Australian photographer on a tilt shift kick — Keith Loutit has been creating fascinating time lapse, tilt shift online shorts. They’re a little low on the substance side, but are definitely cool and frankly, almost do a better job of showing off the technique than still photography does.

While certainly not recommended for our agoraphobic viewers, the video does a nice job of showing what we must look like to the alien motherships circling our planet. Don’t bother trying to give them the middle finger, they’re hopelessly evolved beyond our comprehension. I’ve heard rumors that their obscene gesture of choice when involved in an intergalactic fender bender is to put up all of their fingers. It’s horrifying, I know. Our stupid one finger can’t compete with that shit, that’s just craziness!

Okay, that entire paragraph was craziness, I’ll admit it. Just check out the video, already, and I’ll try to calm myself down in the meantime.

You can watch more of Loutit’s videos on his Vimeo page. He says he hopes his films “help people take a second look at places that are very familiar to them.” They certainly do — remember as a kid hanging upside down from your bed and realizing how different the room looked from your new perspective? This is sort of similar, only it’s like you’re hanging from a really big bed. Like maybe Shaq’s bed. Somebody big’s big, big bed.