‘Imprevionism’ is a collaborative project of Jacek(JMS) vimeo.com/jacek and Ben.

Jacek: ‘I call this technique Imprevionism. I use program created in processing and sequence of photos from time-lapse. The program is merging up to 30 photos from TL by using small random, clusters. So, it’s similar to idea of Impressionism’Ben: Jacek timelapses looks like paintings with a nice structure of coloured planes or dots. So it was great when he asked me to cooperate. My idea was to build up the video like a painting. I used animated drawings. First the basic lines, and slowly with dots and planes, showing bit by bit the beautiful timelapses Jacek made. At the end you can see the steps in which Jacek build up his images, but then in reverse mode.Footage and imprevionism technique by: Jacek vimeo.com/jacek
Animation and editing by: Ben
Music: ‘Night Drive’ by Simeon Harris soundcloud.com/simeonharris/tracks
(thanks for the link to this music piece ferrie!)
Used footage by:
02:07 – 02:13 David Mason vimeo.com/16474639
02:48 -02:56 Marcin Krupa artkrupa.com vimeo.com/16445665
02:56 – 03:04 Matti Pohjonen vimeo.com/12714116

Writes Andrew Tarantola on Gizmodo, “Jacek(JMS) captured many of the time-lapse sequences himself using Program, which was written in the Processing programming language. Program captured up to 30 shots at a time every five minutes—starting at the top of every hour—then stitched together into 1,300-image time-lapse videos.

“Clusters of pixels are taken from time-lapse sequence, but those pixels are not altered/changed with colors, brightness, etc. So, this impressionistic view is created by color, light change over the day,” Jacek(JMS) explained to Gizmodo. “In theory this can be done in analog film by using complementary masks. But such a masks needs to be very precise, I was trying to do this years ago with two masks, no success. With digital technology many photos (up to 30) can be merged more precisely.”

When the video had finished generating, Ben edited the content into a montage and installed the opening animation. “I thought it was nice to build up these beautiful time-lapse paintings by drawing lines and give it colors as if I was making a painting,” he explained. “I used the app, Explain Everything, on an iPad to draw the lines and to record the process. I used green colors to ‘paint’. The green colors gave me the possibility to use it later in an edit program as a green screen (chroma key), so you could see the time-lapse on the places where it was painted green.”

The result, above, isn’t necessarily how Monet would have viewed our modern world. But you’ve got to think he’d at least recognize a kindred spirit.”