James Luckett posted this observation at Spitting Image (also check him out at consumptive.org.)

Turbulence

Many times I've felt stifled, trapped by the stuckness of still photography - and yet not quite requiring the movement, the arc of video or film. What I desired in those moments was something slight, only just a little more: the start of a gesture, a glance, a darkening of the eyes - something that might hint at a life outside the temporal snowglobe of 1/125th of a second.

David Crawford's Stop Motion Studies 2 (London) and Stop Motion Studies 3 (Paris) of people in and around subways and stations are a lot like what I had in mind. It's interesting for me to see that as the moment is extended, the time/frame doesn't break (as I imagined), but simply stretches out, to envelope more falling bits.

Here are the links to David Crawford. Very interesting.

Stop Motion Studies - Series 2

It is said that 90% of human communication is non-verbal. In these photographs, the body language of the subjects becomes the basic syntax for a series of Web-based animations exploring movement, gesture, and algorithmic montage. Many sequences document a person’s reaction to being photographed by a stranger. Some smile, others snarl, still others perform. Some pretend not to notice. Underneath all of this are assumptions and unknowns unique to each situation.
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Stop Motion Studies - Series 3