Continuing the work done in Bocote, I created this unofficial music video for LCD Soundsystem's Someone Great using a very old stop motion animation technique called strata-cut.

To create this film, I shaved off the ends of heavily figured woods at roughly 24 cuts per inch and then photographed them. The 1,200+ still images where then cropped, tiled and cropped again before animating in adobe premier pro. Here are some before and after stills.

Ziricote (After)

For this sample, I wanted to keep the bark (outer edge) intact and present in the final video.

Amboyna (Before)

A prepared sample of Amboyna burl, before turning it into dust.

Amboyna Burl (Before)

Amboyna (After)

A finished still.

Bocote (After)

Below are process images to give you an idea of my setup.

Radial Saw Setup

This plywood jig allows me to digitize the entire wood sample without risking my fingers. It is also used to register the sample for photography. 

Radial Saw Setup

A look down the jig at both samples.

Stop Block

This stop block is set to trim roughly 1/24" at a time from the wood sample.

Stop Block

After trimming the sample one time.

Photography Setup

Two-point lighting with diffusion gels after specially preparing the wood sample for photography.

Photography Setup

From my perspective when taking each photograph.

The Last Slice

The sample was unusable after this.

This is a stop motion animation (really) for Flying Lotus' "Do The Astral Plane" using a laser cut acrylic color mixing toy I created. Every element, action and video effect corresponds to a particular sample within the song and syncopated to the underlying beat structure. The individual acrylic elements were photographed independently using multiple layers to create color combinations and then animated together in Adobe Premier Pro. For more information on the toy, http://michaelturri.com/?p=784

This is a stop motion animation (really) for Flying Lotus' "Do The Astral Plane" using a laser cut acrylic color mixing toyI created.

Every element, action and video effect corresponds to a particular sample within the song and syncopated to the underlying beat structure. The individual acrylic elements were photographed independently using multiple layers to create color combinations and then animated together in Adobe Premier Pro.

As featured on cult fixed gear forum fixed.gr. 

This was my first stop motion short that experiments with the animation of decidedly inanimate objects. At the time of this post, I had just begun the restoration of a 1960s British track frame, so bicycle parts were on my mind...

A disasterous chain of events.

Although I chose a bike chain because of its highly articulated joints, it was precisely this degree of freedom that made it incredibly difficult to control. If you ever try something like this, I suggest using a flexible magnetic sheet underneath the parts to restrict their motion for greater control.

A stop motion animation first.

Employing a very old animation technique called strata cut, I created this 30-second short film prototype by sequentially cutting a piece of bocote wood in fine increments and taking a very high resolution still frame of the specially-treated end grain. I then used adobe premiere pro create this short from the 220 individual still frames.

Complete Setup

Showing one-point lighting, holding jig, photography and remote capture.

This is my first animated short film, created from a 140-page hand-drawn flip book. The story details the existential dilemma of a pencil and its search for meaning in a world of coffee cups.

This is my first animated short film. It was created from a 140-page hand-drawn flip book. The story details the existential dilemma of a pencil and its search for meaning.

This promo spot was an internal marketing piece to recruit Stanford d.school graduate students for our team as part of a new class offering called d.garage.  The spot was very well received, prompting 40% of all class applicants to list our team as a top three choice of seven projects.

This promo spot was an internal marketing piece to recruit Stanford d.school graduate students for our team as part of a new class offering called d.garage. 40% of all class applicants listed our team as a top three choice. "ArtmiXer" seeks to use technology and immersive design to reinvent the museum experience. This project is partially funded by the Stanford Initiative for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and will feature an exhibition of communication design works done by The Eames Office for IBM from the 1950s - 1970s.

"ArtmiXer" sought to use technology and immersive design to reinvent the museum experience. This project was partially funded by the Stanford Initiative for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and featured an exhibition of communication design works done by The Eames Office for IBM from the 1950s - 1970s.

Created for Stanford University's Human Values and Design Innovation class (ME313), DigiPen is a revolutionary interactive surface input device designed to promote effective collaboration among junior high and high school students. Created by Purin Phanichphant, Christin Staubo and Michael Turri at Stanford University. © 2009

Created for Stanford University's Human Values and Design Innovation class (ME313), DigiPen is a conceptual interactive surface input device designed to promote effective collaboration among junior high and high school students.

The following presentation details the research and ideation underlying this concept.

DigiPen was a collaboration with Purin Phanichphant and Christin Staubo.

Created during Stanford University's Human Values and Design Innovation class, Bodega is a revolutionary iPhone app designed to help people organize and share recipes between friends as well as access media-rich educational and entertainment content on the Food Network. The objective of the project was to use technology to reconnect people with food and increase nutritional intelligence. Created by Kai Ding, James Thompson and Michael Turri at Stanford University. (c) 2009

Created during Stanford University's Human Values and Design Innovation class, Bodega is an iPhone app designed to help people organize and share recipes between friends as well as access media-rich educational and entertainment content on the Food Network. The objective of the project was to use technology to reconnect people with food and increase nutritional intelligence.

The following presentation details the research and ideation underlying this concept.

Bodega was a collaboration with Kai Ding and James Thompson.

My first film ever. Rather than send a save the date card for our wedding, Jenn and I made this movie and uploaded if for our friends and family. We were in Sept-Iles, Québec, 900 KM northeast of Montreal for Jenn's rural rotation, so I had spare time on my hands. The only thing I didn't count on was that many people did not know what a date looked like...

This was my first film ever. Shot on the kitchen floor using a Nikon CoolPix P1 (point-and-shoot). Edited with iMovie HD (bundled with Apple). Font is "Shag Exotica" from House Industries.

Rather than send a save the date card for our wedding, Jenn and I made this movie and uploaded if for our friends and family. We were in Sept-Iles, Québec, 900 KM northeast of Montreal for Jenn's rural rotation, so I had spare time on my hands.

The only thing I didn't count on was that many people did not know what a date looked like...