Art: Tilt-shift videos

I love tilt-shift photography.  Maybe it's because I've built so many architectural models, or maybe it's just a human fascination with seeing things out-of-scale.  In any case, tilt-shift photography, an effect that makes real-life scenes appear to be miniaturized, is very popular lately.  

[site specific by Olivo Barbieri]

I first became aware of it in an article about the artist Olivo Barbieri in 2006.  He took helicopter rides around cities and took series of photos from the air.  Sometimes, I feel a little bad for him, since he had such a novel way of viewing the city, and it's been copied by everyone ever since.*

[How to Miniaturize a Scene from Wired Magazine]

About a year later, I read an article in Wired that described how to get the same effect without an expensive tilt-shift lens.  More recently, I came across this tutorial online.  

Here are a couple of my own forays into faux tilt shift photography:

[The Land at Epcot]

[Snow day]

And now, the effect seems pretty popular in videos.  I think most people saw it in The Social Network or in Sherlock, but I thought I'd highlight these videos that were equally well-made and just as fascinating.

[A Model Day at Magic Kingdom]

[The City of Samba via Co.Design]

*I just read the comments for the Metropolis article, and someone commented that Esteban Pastorino Diaz was there before.  So he's the one I should really be feeling bad for.