 Bullet Time Dear my researching comrades, Beautiful summer has come to us with full relaxations and a cooling space for your
contemplation in the lab, 606. Well, it would be a good time for us to go back to art for
enjoyment. I have looked and watched banished stones on the street and paintings in
the museum in Europe, with a jealous eye. I always wanted to know why I am consumed
with jealousy. Their sparkling ideas have wrapped me in a nightmare, and I have been
in trembling wishes and prayers. On a market street in a small town of China, one man
was writing a phrase with a water brush under the scorching sun hearing big group of
people’s murmuring a same word, “bucuo, … bucuo (不错)” that means “good”, and my
naïve or wrong translation of the expression might be “not wrong” or “not bad”. Why
‘not’? As soon as the man finished one phrase, the letters were dried up and cannot be
seen. Yeah, now I am in peace like the master shifu in the Kungfu Panda. The title, ‘Bullet Time’ is come from the Wachowski’s film in 1999, The Matrix, in
which Neo shows his escaping from bullets. 120 still cameras got 120 shots each in their
differentiated positions. Just imagine Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 horse photographs
taken in a row, and 120 years later, those cameras were in a circle. Separate photographs
were shown as they were in 1878, and 120 years later, they were shown in integrated
moving images. “bucuo!” Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain is full of tourists to watch Las Meninas (1656, Diego
Velázquez, oil on canvas, 318 cm × 276 cm). We will see four scholars’ views on the
painting if you would include Merlo-Ponty as one of the viewers. Best, Dr. Yoon, June 26, 2022 Soongsil University, Information Science Building (No.21) room 606 369 Sangdo-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-743, Republic of Korea tel. 82.2.824.0718 fax. 82.2.822.3622 www.maat.kr  |
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