AICP Southwest Sponsor Reel -> Corgan Media Lab

AICP Southwest Sponsor Reel by Corgan Media Lab from Corgan Media Lab on Vimeo.

This reel consists of an interesting mesh of nature environmental shots and graphics that interplay beautifully together via motion tracking effects. The sharp in-out narrow depth of field camera work also make for some fun spatial enhancements.

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Toy Soldiers -> Alta Media Productions

Toy Soldiers from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.

The highly entertaining tilt-shift video above was created by Paris based production company Alta Media Productions. I find the use of tilt-shift while documenting a military parade to be highly animated and very satirical. At one point there is a series of smoke trail flybys from what I [...]

Rush Hour London -> Chris Searson

Rush Hour London from Chris Searson on Vimeo.

This is a well done time lapse film by London based Contemporary Lens Media graduate Chris Searson. Trains, autos and people all captured at interesting moments during their daily scurry to either get to work or get home from work. Great musical score selection as well. Worth the [...]

Vita Brevis Films -> BMW M6 Spot

BMW M6 by Vita Brevis Films from VITA BREVIS on Vimeo.

I respect a film production house that will hold out for the exact weather condition that will compliment the necessary mood, look and feel required to satisfy the original intent of their creative concept (in this case pea soup thick fog). So many agencies [...]

Truck Farm -> Wicked Delicate

I’m not sure what to think of this short film ‘Truck Farm’ by a group called ‘Wicked Delicate’. I suppose the idea is to show how easy it can be to plant a farm in a big city, with limited space and in a gas guzzling truck? However, the trailer did it’s job and has [...]

Voltage -> Bam Studio

Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo.

This animated short was directed by Filippe Lyra e William Paiva and produced by Barros Melo Animation Studio. Nicely animated modular synthesizer robots connect with each other to make explosive sound. Literally. Makes for an interesting view.

Notes from Vimeo:

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in [...]

Bas Jan Ader -> Performative Installations

Bas Jan Ader was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. As much as he was all of those things he was also a mystery to many of us. His works primarily consisted of odd scenarios captured as short film performance pieces. One of his most popular was called ‘I’m too sad to [...]

‘Play’ by BJSR -> iPhone Music Video

Music Video Shot on iPhone from Kenny Mosher on Vimeo.

This Music Video was shot entirely on the new iPhone 3GS and was produced by Showdown Productions, LLC. I’m not certain if the edit took place on the iPhone with the editing tools that are available for the 3GS but for those who are interested in [...]

HP -> ‘Invent’ Video

HP – invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

This video response filmed, edited and directed by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth for D&AD Student Awards brief set by Hewlett Packard is well worth a view. the challenge presented by HP: “Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative [...]

The Sea and Cake -> Weekend

This is a great video Directed by Tim Suton for band ‘Sea and Cake’. It documents a summer ‘day in the life of’ for a group of young kids. Shot with a lo-fi approach there are lots of great ‘moments’ captured and supported by some nice color flange and lens flares, all effects that add [...]

I’ve Got You and You’ve Got Me -> New Buffalo

I’ve Got You and You’ve Got Me – New Buffalo Remixed by Broken Social Scene from Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. on Vimeo.

I find this video directed by cinematography grad student Karen Abad to be extremely entertaining in a quirky kind of way. The story is simple. Two young moderately tattooed hipsters find love through ‘Bomb [...]

Photographer -> Jena Ardell

Jena Ardell is a bi-coastal freelance photographer who has the knack for creating images that appear to have been taken in the 1960s or 70s, when in reality most of her images were taken in the past few years. I find that many of her photos pull me into a kind of distressed technicolor dream-state [...]

Volkan Ergen -> Beklemek 2

// BEKLEMEK 2 \\// EXPECT 2 // from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

There is little information to be found on this art film, all I know is that it was filmed by Volkan Ergen in and around the city of Istanbul. I like the split screen effect and the well cropped scenery that sharpens and blurs [...]

Urban Nature -> Alex Horner

Urban Nature from Alex Horner on Vimeo.

This is a nice short shot in Duluth MN by videographer/sound designer Alex Horner, called “Urban Nature”. Duluth is probably one of the best cities to try to capture an Urban/Nature theme, being that the city is located in a pretty “wild” area of the country to begin with. [...]

Philip Bloom -> The rapping flight attendant

Bloom’s Blog Part 4: The rapping flight attendant from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

I’ve mentioned it before in earlier posts about the importance of always carrying a camera, every second of the day (within reason of course). Philip Bloom recently captured this footage of “the rapping flight attendant” by doing just that during his trip to [...]