Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Eadweard Muybridge

At one point in Eadweard Muybridge’s life, Muybridge was involved in a pretty bad stage coach accident. His head sustained a lot of injuries which caused problems with his seeing, thinking, and personality. Neurologists today, upon looking at Muybridge’s medical records, believe these changes were due to damage to his frontal cortex. I’m really interested in the brain and what it can do, so this fact got me thinking of doing a piece about the brain, like a zoetrope of an MRI of a brain. Muybridge also did panoramic pieces, which I believe would give an interesting aspect to this project. Regarding to the bet of whether or not a horse had all four hooves off the ground when it galloped, I think it’s fascinating that Muybridge tried to shed light on a question that our eyes alone could not answer. So maybe a project that tried to answer a question only a camera can solve would be a good idea.
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