Response to Rush's Introduction

   In Rush's introduction, he talked about lots of technology development and art avant-gardes. What makes me feel fascinating is the development of art from photography to sequences of motion picture and then becomes film. It is an "dynamic interplay between art, technology and life". When I read this, I interpreted it as technology enables the life become art. The "studies in time" that rush talked about is pretty interesting because it enabled people to record the sequences of motion and to represent the time lapse, and that's how cinema developed. In Muybridge's 1878 photographs of horses in motion, he used twelve cameras, "each making an image at 1/200th of a second", which involves the play of time elapse. I'm not quite sure about the related time lapse motion definition, but I found two videos both talking about time lapse and are in reverse time lapse direction. The first one is produced by a art studio called Marmalade and they are professional at producing slow motion videos, the create excellent ads,  and I guess that might be the same idea as Muybride's horse photo piece. These ads are so impressing, I observed those tiny details that how things are going in real life that I 've never seen before, just as people never seen how horses move before they invented those ways to record horses' movement.

The other video recorded the process that a dandelion grew from a flower to a seed in one month. But oppositely, it accelerated the speed of the motion in the film. In a few seconds we can see the whole process that how it grows and changes.

I barely found Rush talked about what "new media" is, maybe "new media" doesn't strictly exist since everyday the new technology is replacing the olds,  so "new media" might not exist, but the technologies are always developing.