“The Third & The Seventh”

The video shown below (via @jonasl Twitter feed) is one of the most mesmerizing pieces I’ve ever seen. It starts a little slowly, and the variable depth of field and changing focus techniques can be slightly off-putting, but stick with it and you’ll be richly rewarded.

You can watch the embedded version below, but if you have a fast internet connection and computer, I highly recommend watching the HD version in full-screen mode. I have no idea how much of it is real, and how much is
computer-generated (read some of the almost 1300 comments on the Vimeo page linked above and you’ll
see that I’m not alone), but it doesn’t matter. It easily qualifies as
a digital masterpiece regardless of how it was made.