Via Warren Ellis, Frederic Fontenoy's Metamorphose, a series of photographs that come disturbingly close to approximating what Octavia Butler's Clayarks (the human-headed quadrupeds from the Patternist novels who move with cat-like speed and agility) look like in motion:
Update. Vance informs us there are even more Clayark-like shots at Fontenoy's site, and he's not kidding.
Update 2. Welcome io9 readers! Before you email again: I'm aware that that Adam Roberts comments on my blog. (He's really not that scary, I promise.)
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Posted by: Adam Roberts | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 12:46 PM
Indeed. More here. Reminds me of Bill Brandt, though he didn't push it to quite this science-fictional extent.
Posted by: Vance Maverick | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 01:19 PM
You're not kidding, Vance. I mean, seriously, Jesus Christ.
Posted by: SEK | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 02:12 PM
The technique may be slit-scan photography, an intentional application of the shutter effect seen e.g. in this Lartigue shot.
Posted by: Vance Maverick | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 03:39 PM
Reminds me of Francis Bacon...
Posted by: Sisyphus | Monday, 01 March 2010 at 09:42 PM
Vance, thanks for that link: I'd never heard of slit-scan technique before, but it's apparently used quite frequently.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 at 08:04 AM
Reminds me of Francis Bacon...
...which would be why I find it so compelling, given my love of Bacon. (Speaking of which, apparently I never posted that really piece I wrote about Bacon; moreover, I can't find it in my draft folder either, so maybe I never wrote, but only thought about writing it? Good Christ, but I'm an idiot sometimes.)
Posted by: SEK | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 at 11:42 AM
"(He's really not that scary, I promise.)"
ROOOAAAARR!!
Posted by: Adam Roberts | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 at 01:36 PM
You can ROOOAAAARR! all you like, becausre you're apparently plenty intimidating. I had someone post a comment to the effect of "Holy shit, Adam Roberts posted a comment on a blog by some random bloke on the internet, I could never write if I knew he was reading it," then immediately email asking to delete it, on account of he it could be misconstrued to be insulting to me, when all he meant is that he was surprised/scared to find you here.
Posted by: SEK | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 at 03:05 PM
Adam doesn't scare me. But then I haven't read any of his books. ... (begins to get nervous) ... Yet! I mean, I haven't read them yet.
Posted by: Vance Maverick | Tuesday, 02 March 2010 at 04:55 PM
Cacaca cool, dude.
Posted by: Sid the Anarchist Lurker | Wednesday, 03 March 2010 at 04:16 PM