Gallery: A Wild New Look at Birds, Thanks to Time-Bending Video Trickery
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Dennis Hlynsky, head of the Film, Video, and Animation department at RISD, shoots clips of birds moving through time.
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The clips are striking stuff.
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The massive flocks can look sinister, but these gulls with acid trails are pretty freaky too...
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"Examining the path things take is an alternative way of seeing. This video insists on taking the 'now' and make it longer." Watch the full video [here](http://vimeo.com/84361066).
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While he’s perfectly content in his role as artist, he does hope that projects like his will inspire scientists to look at the problems in new ways.
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“If we can change your perspective of how to look at these group behaviors–to look at them as an artist might look at them–we can began to spin narratives that might change how we experiment or how we conduct our investigations for concrete knowledge,” he says.
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The technique, applied to some bugs.
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Early on, he focused on single bird studies, conducting experiments in his backyard with homemade green-screen feeders. He’s since adapted the technique to visualize the movements of ants, carp, seagulls and ducks. Lately, Hlynsky’s returned to filming flocks.
