The Eating Utensils

During week 2's class we looked at several videos but the ones I remembered the most was the knife and the one where there's like a spoon balanced on something or whatever. Ironic how I said the ones I remembered... In the videos, all camera angles/views were pretty much stationary and one other that included some simple zooming of in and out. They were focused on more of the performance that was/is suppose to happen than as if it was a first person view of someone's or what not.

I don't remember the particular order of when it was shown but I guess starting with the knife will do:
- a stationary knife
- colour of the knife would change from time to time like a magic trick
- most likely the colours were produced by light shining onto it
- it felt like I was watching a sort of a magic trick as each colour would drain in and out instead of just 'disappearing'
- a feeling of expanded/extended time was added onto it because of the repetitive motions of the colour change
- at the same time, it felt like it was suspenseful because you didn't know what colour it would become and when it would change
- the change was made behind the camera as the object remained stagnent as the focus was on about the change of colours instead

The second video had a name but I don't really remember. In short, I guess about household items:
- the most memorable clip though was the ice on the spoon I believe
- ice was melting, causing the spoon to lose balance on like an edge of some sort
- water would drip down to the center bottom of the spoon in an intriguing way
- it was very suspenseful as it played with the simplicity of the objects
- from what I remembered, at the end the spoon lost balanced and dropped as the ice turned into water
- the simple play of household items were the focus
- everything was actually in front of the camera vs the above video where everything was performed behind

Just remembered another video while typing...
The one where it pans slowly in a hallway forward into the end. People were eating but in a really slow motion because it was filmed where I believe some of the frames were skipped or repeated. It gave off a very hallow atmosphere, it was super slow with it's motion. Perhaps to some point even unbearable with it's speed as it was not exactly synced with my own expectation of what the reality time was like. It also showed some people in it eating lunch, very slowly and they did not look too happy. A weary environment the workers were in especially showed/seen by the long duration.