Animals outfitted with cameras show a different perspective of the world, hard-hat style.
Filmmaker Sam Easterson, director of Animal Vegetable Video, has worked with several animals to capture video footage with helmet-mounted cameras.
The Animal Vegetable Videos are hosted by ASU's Arts, Media and Engineering program. The videos will be showing at the Computing Commons Gallery until March 9.
Easterson said the idea for the videos came about when he was in graduate school and did his first video project on sheep.
"It was difficult to get these cameras on the sheep's head, but it was a successful project," Easterson said.
Easterson said the cameras were much larger when he started, but today they are the size of a nine-volt battery.
Sheilah Britton, director and curator of the Arts, Media and Engineering Program at the Computing Commons Gallery, said in an e-mail that the purpose of the exhibit was to combine media, science and arts.
"[The art] at once seems humorous and then as you follow from the point of view of the animals, you understand they are creating their own stories -- some of them are really quite poignant," Britton said.
Adriana Milinic, a history sophomore, said she thought the idea for the video was very original.
"I really like and enjoy watching it," Milinic said.
For Leah Hunke, a drawing sophomore, "the videos are a clever way of seeing things outside of the norm."
Britton said the exhibit had been a popular attraction.
"We'd had terrific feedback, and the armadillo video in the window of the gallery has drawn a lot of people into the installation," Britton said.
Video clips are also available online at www.anivegvideo.com.
Reach the reporter at tatiana.hensley@asu.edu.
