Museum of Animal Perspectives
Headed by Sam Easterson, the Museum of Animal Perspectives project involves the placement of tiny cameras atop various animals –everything from scorpions to frogs to lambs to wolves– and documenting short snippets of them going about their daily lives:
Via Brian Moroz, who says “Cow Staring at Another Cow has a noir elegance to it, but then Wolf Chewing Snail Shells is more family-friendly.”
Be warned: it’s highly addictive fare.* You might very well lose hours watching footage of crocodiles blowing bubbles and moles scurrying through the earth. Here’s hoping there will soon be giraffes, platypuses and dolphins added to the mix!
*Speaking of addictive cam footage, remember Strange Days? The flannel-and-fanny-pack-sporting, mini disc-pimping, PJ Harvey song-ganking cyberpunk Neuromancer knockoff starring Angela Bassett and Ralph Fiennes? A humble request: can someone with more spare time and editing prowess puh-lease take this film preview and splice it together with various clips from the MAP archives? Comedy gold.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:10 am
Holy fucking crap, these are awesome!
September 1st, 2009 at 7:46 am
What Ross said.
There’s a Great White doc where they attach a camera and get lots of geekgasm moments. I think this is it, but I’m in a rush and out the door in 5, so no time to double check: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/great_white_shark_truth_behind_the_legend/
September 1st, 2009 at 11:38 am
yeah, the only thing to make this better would be an octopus cam… *jizz*
September 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
Those are all really, really cool, but the armadillo ears just MAKE that whole thing for me. I wish I could tell you why.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Aaaaah, these are AMAZING!!!
Yeah, the armadillo’s ears were super cute. Good choice, putting such a busy, short-breathed, low-to-the-ground animal above the cow, who inspires such a sleepy zen mindset.
I must have more.
September 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
AVATAR EAT YER HEART OUT.
The armadillo’s my fave as well. I’m a little embarrassed to admit how many times I’ve watched some of these clips.