screenshot of the image mosaic from The Whale Hunt
© Jonathan Harris / thewhalehunt.org

With his project The Whale Hunt, Jonathan Harris seems to have redefined the role that images can play in telling stories but, furthermore, what a complex web interface can do for the presentation of these images. Harris writes about the project,

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.

You really have to see the website to visualize this “photographic heartbeat.”

(thanks Justin)

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