Isn't a Polished Turd still a Turd?

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. Man’s profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfills this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence.
Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto

I'd say that "Artist" has some serious emotional Issues!
Sure hope that isn't what it looks like inside his Skull.

No. Its not art.

It's a good job of stop animation, creative thinking, good use of lights and color, and creative use of a SLR. There will probably be much more art of this type since the SLR has gone digital.

Here is another one which is very good on the stop animation especially towards the end without much use of color or light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

Several stop animated films have won Academy Awards for their art.

art is physical marks, moment s in time, thoughts said allowed, love between thousands of people, a sentence...a realm where opinion is not needed..everyone is an artist.

I am grateful this 'artist' has kept him/herself busy and has something to keep him/her off public streets.

Better out than in i say

Yes it's art!