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May17

Video: Ken Burns On Story

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In this short film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason, Ken Burns shares his thoughtful perspective on what makes a good story.

Ken Burns: On Story from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo.

Abraham Lincoln wins the Civil War and then he decides he’s got enough time to go to the theatre. That’s a good story. When Thomas Jefferson said ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’, he owned a hundred human beings and never saw the hypocrisy, never saw the contradiction, and more importantly never saw fit in his lifetime to free any one of them. That’s a good story. Over at the Atlantic, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg has an interview with the filmmakers.

(Via kottke.org.)
Apr30

Video: What’s Cookin? by LRG

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Conventional wisdom tells us not to talk with our mouth full, but no one ever said anything about pieces of food rapping along to some of the best culinary lines in hip-hop history. The latest short from production duo BankShot with music by DJ Nick Castle finds a stop-motion film that shows everything from pancakes and bacon to a green pepper with a platinum grill lip-synching along to classic lines from Biggie Smalls, Guru, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Action Bronson, Method Man and a whole lot more notable emcees. Dinner is served.
Apr29

Video: Coney Island Love Letter by Land of Nod Inc.

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A love letter to Brooklyn’s beautiful and magical Coney Island, sent from Robert Kolodny of Land of Nod Inc. Please visit and support Coney Island, it is a true NYC treasure and needs help being preserved so future generations can enjoy its wonder. Land of Nod Inc is a Brooklyn based cinema production house. We hand craft and fine tailor all of our video’s to our clients wildest dreams. If you’re in need of some filmmaking in your life, please visit landofnodinc.com and follow @landofnodinc on twitter. The music is Claire de Lune by the wonderful Claude Debussy. Visit coneyisland.com to find out what is happening on the boardwalk this summer! Please visit: landofnodinc.com
Apr28

Video: Change the tune by Michael Robinson

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We have a shared music machine in our studio. Anyone can put anything on they want at any time, no rules. It’s a democratic system that seems to work 99% of the time. But occasionally the system fails and that’s what inspired me to build this poster. Built as an R&D project at agencyrepublic.com
Apr26

Video: From Lunch to Landfill by KPCC

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Tracking food trash from a restaurant to a landfill: In the short video From Lunch to Landfill, Mae Ryan of KPSeeSee, the visuals team for Southern California pubic radio station KPCC, shows what happens to food trash as it makes it way through Los Angeles from the restaurant to landfill.

(Via Laughing Squid.)
Apr24

Video: Stolen Moments Matt Stuart by Spine TV

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Matt Stuart talks about his fascination with photographing the streets.
Apr23

Video Documentary: Leica & Magnum Constantine Manos

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Constantine Manos was born in 1934 in South Carolina to Greek immigrant parents. He went on to attend the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1955. Joining Magnum Photos in 1963, he then became a full Member in 1965. This video, produced in partnership with Magnum, is a personal documentary of Manos’ wide-ranging subjects – from desegregation in the American South to life in Greece and his later work throughout America which he shot in color. One thing has remained constant throughout his career, it’s been Costa and his Leica rangefinder.
Apr21

Video: Venezuelan Skies by monoelemento

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A selection of time lapse videos shot in Venezuela two months ago. I have never been to Venezuela, but I must say it that the landscape looks fantastic…
Apr20

Video: Benga I Will Never Change by Us

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In this music video for “I Will Never Change” by London-based electronic musician Benga, 960 records are stop motion animated to create a waveform for the song. The animation was created by London-based studio Us.

(via Fubiz)
Apr19

Video: Mr. Foley by D.A.D.D.Y

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A darkly funny but nightmarish scenario, a man wakes up in hospital with a group of sound artists soundtracking his life. Mr Foley is an award winning short film directed by Dublin directing duo Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman aka D.A.D.D.Y. The film has been on the festival circuit for a while but has just premiered online for all to see, YAY!
Apr17

Video: Nola Time Lapse by Jeremiah Fry

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Here is a longer version of my first attempt at making beautiful time lapse. I am no Tom Lowe (timescapes.org) but learned a whole heap and they will only get better and more beautiful from here. I hope you enjoy this minute of my now hometown New Orleans.

Equipment used:
RED Scarlet (“Lola” #132)
Canon 16-35mm L Series lens
Zeiss 50mm ZP.2 Lens
Kessler Crane Shuttle Pod
Kessler Crane Philip Bloom Pocket Dolly
1 cup of patience
A dollop of passion
1 quart blood & Sweat (tears are not necessary)
Apr16

Video: Waves by Daniel Palacios

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‘Waves’ utilizes a basic construction of a long piece of elastic string and two motors to visualize the presence of people close to the installation. The string between the two motorized chambers reacts to the people presence and movements, it twirls to produce a sine-wave simulation that eloquently resembles both the digitization of real-time sound waves and patterns of flow and connectivity found in natural systems. The simple act of making the “invisible” visible can produce profound effects in both our understanding of the world around us and the close relationship we have to the natural and built environment that we occupy daily. Although the project may seem like a simple visualization of intangible forms, it nevertheless connects to our visceral side by creating unique sound output and striking visual stimuli that engage with “persistence of vision” and our connection to the spaces we occupy and their sonic and electromagnetic inhabitants. More info at: danielpalacios.info
Apr15

Video: Asylum by Drew Geraci

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Take a dark journey into the forgotten, where time stands still. The paint has peeled off the walls and the only occupants are the souls of those left behind. This is the Asylum. Opened in the early 1920s, the Asylum closed down and was abandoned decades ago. Rooms remain untouched – left as they were when the last of the employees departed. These buildings stand as a testament to the horrors and miss treatment that patients had to endure during the time of its operation. Our 7 month journey into the Asylum led us on many adventures; from dodging security vehicles, ghostly figures and even a meth head. This is no place for the faint of heart. Asbestos blanketed every room we entered like new winter snow, so shooting was sometimes difficult. This project is a combination of traditional HDR, tone-mapping, and standard time-lapse techniques. With the use of the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero and a Merlin head, we were able to capture the grit and the grime of this wondrous place, like it had never been captured before. Every single frame in this production is a still photograph, no video was shot. It took nearly 35,000 individual frames over 7 months to complete this project.
Apr15

Video: The Watchmaker by Dustin Cohen

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“The Watchmaker” by Dustin Cohen is a short film about David Sokosh, a Brooklyn-based watchmaker and founder ofBrooklyn Watches. Cohen has also posted a photo essay about Sokosh and Brooklyn Watches.
Apr11

Video: One more kilometre by John Wood & Paul Harrison

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Here is an art performance called One more kilometre by British art duo John Wood and Paul Harrison, a beautiful stream of flying paper is created using a belt sander and a giant stack of copy paper. The idea is that the paper stacked end to end covers a distance of one kilometre. It was showcased at Kulturhuset art gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.
Apr9

Video: The New York Times by Gestalten

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Short documentary about the graphics department at The New York Times:

They’ve won countless awards for their graphic work, but now it’s time to dive behind what makes America’s most venerated general interest newspaper stand a world apart. Graphics director Steve Duenes and his team of 30-some journalists at The New York Times turn around images at a breakneck daily, if not an hourly, pace, sorting and sifting through reportage to provide the clearest visualization of data possible.

How the information is manifested – through diagrams, charts, or interactive media – is up to them, though we’ve grown to trust their authority on all stories, from the sensitive (9/11) to the scientific (a perfect triple axel at the Olympics). In Gestalten.tv’s latest podcast, we speak with Duenes and graphics editor Archie Tse on location in their New York headquarters to learn a few tricks of the trade.
Apr8

Video: The Moscow Metro by Sasha Aleksandrov

Posted in: Video

Режиссура и монтаж: Алексей Ханютин
Операторы: Павел Костомаров, Саша Александров (цейтрафер)
Музыка: Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Производство: Parallax Pictures

More photos: fotki.yandex.ru/users/sasha8gb/album/182372/
Apr7

Video: Last of the Great Unknown by Dan Ransom

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The Grand Canyon is an immense place, almost unfathomable in scale, and one of the last places in the American West to be explored. John Wesley Powell called it the “Great Unknown,” having no idea what rapids, falls, or canyons awaited him on his first descent of the river in 1869. In the decades since, the Canyon has been a playground for dozens of explorers. River runners, backpackers, routefinders, lithic hunters, and peakbaggers have all laid claim to the Canyon’s iconic landmarks, often seeking out the prestigious “firsts.” While many significant points of interest were being explored, there was one feature that was left almost entirely ignored: the Canyon’s innumerable technical slots.

Deep within this vast wilderness are secret and intimate tributaries rarely visited by man, hiding some of the Canyon’s most remarkable features. The barrier to entry is steep. To explore them, one must have a knowledge of backpacking, packrafting, rappeling, anchor building, and off-trail navigation. The Last of the Great Unknown is the story of these slots, the canyoneers who systematically explored their drainages, and the secrets hidden deep within their walls.

The film will premiere the last week of April, 2012. Check the official website for updates!

Official Website - lastofthegreatunknown.com/

Follow on Facebook - facebook.com/pages/Last-of-the-Great-Unknown/183869008384960

Directed by Dan Ransom - danransom.com

Original Score by Amy Stolzenbach - amystolzenbach.com
Apr3

Video: Leica Portrait Joel Meyerowitz

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An award-winning street photographer who has been creating memorable images in the great photojournalistic tradition since 1962, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered the use of color in this slice of life genre, and his classic book on Cape Cod, “Cape Light” was instrumental in changing the prevailing dismissive attitudes toward color photography. Within a few days of the 9/11 attacks on The World Trade Center, Meyerowitz began to create an archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero that consists of over 8,000 images of the aftermath of the tragedy. In this latest Leica Portrait video, Joel shares the story of his transition from junior art director to legendary photographer.
Apr2

Video: Documenting the Human Condition – Part 3

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Back in 2006 I wrote a .pdf about purism and street photography and posted it on deviantart.com. I featured not only my own work but many of my street-shooting friends from all over the world.

Having wrote that it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to update it. Yes, I could have written something yet I really wanted to do it with video. Until the Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 came about — and with the most recent firmware update — i couldn’t have achieved “the look” i wanted. Over the course of two months this summer I enlisted the help of some friends to shoot … I dunno … the next volume or whatever this is. In this video you’ll see my work and that of photographers Severin Koller, Frank Jackson and Mario Anzuoni, all with different perspectives for shooting street photography. There are too many people to thank; please read the credits at the end of part three. I hope you enjoy it. I know that I had an amazing time shooting and editing it.
Apr1

Video: Documenting the Human Condition – Part 2

Posted in: Video

Back in 2006 I wrote a .pdf about purism and street photography and posted it on deviantart.com. I featured not only my own work but many of my street-shooting friends from all over the world.

Having wrote that it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to update it. Yes, I could have written something yet I really wanted to do it with video. Until the Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 came about — and with the most recent firmware update — i couldn’t have achieved “the look” i wanted. Over the course of two months this summer I enlisted the help of some friends to shoot … I dunno … the next volume or whatever this is. In this video you’ll see my work and that of photographers Severin Koller, Frank Jackson and Mario Anzuoni, all with different perspectives for shooting street photography. There are too many people to thank; please read the credits at the end of part three. I hope you enjoy it. I know that I had an amazing time shooting and editing it.
Mar31

Video: Documenting the Human Condition – Part 1

Posted in: Video

Back in 2006 I wrote a .pdf about purism and street photography and posted it on deviantart.com. I featured not only my own work but many of my street-shooting friends from all over the world.

Having wrote that it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to update it. Yes, I could have written something yet I really wanted to do it with video. Until the Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 came about — and with the most recent firmware update — i couldn’t have achieved “the look” i wanted. Over the course of two months this summer I enlisted the help of some friends to shoot … I dunno … the next volume or whatever this is. In this video you’ll see my work and that of photographers Severin Koller, Frank Jackson and Mario Anzuoni, all with different perspectives for shooting street photography. There are too many people to thank; please read the credits at the end of part three. I hope you enjoy it. I know that I had an amazing time shooting and editing it.
Mar29

Video: Shangri-La Toronto by Tyson Williams

Posted in: Video

On Tuesday, I had a pleasure to visit the construction site for the new Shangri-La Toronto Hotel & Condo (due to open later this year) thanks for UrbanToronto.ca

Here is a short iPhone video from the visit to the presentation centre and elevator ride up to the 65th floor, open-air rooftop:
Mar27

Video: The Vegetable Song by Si Bennett

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The Vegetable Song is a short music video created by Si Bennett featuring anthropomorphic singing veggies that encourage the eating of vegetables.

video and music by Si Bennett (eustus)
thanks to Richard Tomlin (and family) I hope it will help Oliver eat his vegetables
Mar25

Video time-lapse: Fog Illuminate by Ben Lean

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Fog was descending upon Downtown Toronto. I set up a timelapse to run throughout the night and into the morning (March 20-21, 2012) to monitor the activity. Music by Chris Tilton-”A New Day In The Old Town”- Fringe Season 2

Shot using the following:
Camera: Canon T3i
Lens: Sigma 17-70mm
Mar22

Video: Barcelona Ride by Restless Collective

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Two minutes of cycling through the streets of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter on our around-the-world bicycle ride.
Mar21

Video: 1 Second Everyday at Age 30 by Cesar Kuriyama

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I am recording 1 second everyday for the rest of my life… this is me at age 30. This premiered during my TED talk on March 2nd at TED2012 in Long Beach, CA. I spent a couple of years saving enough money to be able to take a frugal year off from work my entire 30th year of life… I spent it doing all the important things I never had enough time for… travel, my own creative projects, & family.
Mar19

Video: Full Circle by Callum Cooper

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If you ever wondered how jumping rope looks like from the rope’s perspective, check out this clever video…
Mar14

Video: TinType Photography Bob Shimmin by Kalamazoo Valley Museum

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Bob Shimmin talks with us about his story and how he got involved in tintype photography. You can watch the process video with Bob Shimmin here. You can visit the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Website here:
Mar13

Video: Football Freestyle in Rio de Janeiro by Pedro Soares

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BrasilFreestyle Crew members showing their skills in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro!