pictures.

I need a break from slogging through storm stories and wanted to point out an amazing website. You all might have seen it somewhere already - it is traveling around quickly. A coworker sent me an email about it yesterday and I see this morning that it’s on the Mediastorm blog. It is called The Whale Hunt. It is super addicting and conceptually fascinating. Plan to spend some time with it.

About the project:
“The Whale Hunt project was initiated by Jonathan Harris and Andrew Moore, both of whom organized the trip and traveled together. Andrew shot large format photographs while Jonathan shot many smaller digital photographs, which are presented here on this website, which he designed.”

Jonathan writes:
“I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.”