Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:27:31 -0400

Just a chill idea for a video or whatever.

Cast: Casey Donahue, Amir, Andrea Allen, Andrew Pile, Blake Whitman, Daniel Hayek, Julia Quinn and Jake Hurwitz

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:04:56 -0400

Featuring: Dead Prez, DJ Premier, Brand Nubian, Black Thought, Pharaoh Monch, Buckshot, Styles P, Sheek Louch, and Smif & Wessun.

Camera: Kevin Chung
Edit: Shane Deini

Death by Electric Shock

Cast: Death by Electric Shock

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:35:29 -0400

A short documentary featuring artists David Dowling, Dennis Svoronos and Brady Scott as they design and construct their steam boiler, Ignatius.

Directed by:
Patrick Johnson - journeymanstudios.com

Featuring:
David Dowling - studiokes@gmail.com
Dennis Svoronos - dennis@dennissvoronos.com
Brady Scott - brscottdesigns@gmail.com

Music by:
John Murphree - johnmurphree.com

Camera by:
Patrick Johnson
Ben Hartman - who-is-sure.com

Cast: Patrick Johnson

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:32:26 -0400

Introducing the Magic Lantern firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II. Adds new features to the camera:

- Onscreen audio meters
- Zebra stripes
- Crop marks
- Manual audio level controls
- Lower noise than stock firmware

For more info: magiclantern.wikia.com/

Sorry about the left-channel only audio. I've re-encoded it as mono and have uploaded a new version.

Cast: Trammell Hudson

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:27:31 -0400

Introducing the Magic Lantern firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II. Adds new features to the camera:

- Onscreen audio meters
- Zebra stripes
- Crop marks
- Manual audio level controls
- Lower noise than stock firmware

For more info: magiclantern.wikia.com/

Sorry about the left-channel only audio. I've re-encoded it as mono and have uploaded a new version.

Cast: Trammell Hudson

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:18:42 -0400

Group photo taking place in front of my door seen through peephole.

Cast: Noah Kalina

Mon, 25 May 2009 12:44:17 -0400

cinimodstudio.com/ufo-project

Cast: Cinimod Studio

Fri, 22 May 2009 09:36:01 -0400

On October 4th, 2004 SpaceShipOne was the first private vehicle to make it in to space and after a second successful flight won the Ansari X-Prize.

On July 28th, 2008 WhiteKnightTwo rolled out on the runway with SpaceShipTwo getting ready for a 2009 rollout. These new crafts will enable for the first time in human history privatized space travel. Anyone, you included, will be able to reach low earth orbit and experience weightlessness. This will forever change the course of human exploration.

This is the story of Virgin Galactic.

Cast: SpaceVidcast

Wed, 20 May 2009 01:09:55 -0400

Get Francis and the Lights' LIME/WYN 7" at cantorarecords.com/shop/releases/lps/francis-and-the-lights-lime-wyn-vinyl

francisandthelights.com
cantorarecords.com

Cast: Cantora Records, Sam Fuller

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:40:28 -0400

Matt is new in the office, so we figured we would let him know what Andrew is really like.

Cast: Casey Donahue, Andrea Allen, Andrew Pile, Julia Quinn and Matt

Wed, 06 May 2009 17:21:17 -0400

spyfilms.com - Neill Blomkamp directs a short film about aliens in South Africa. Fictional situation where alien species have populated a South African shanty town, living an even more outcast life than the villagers themselves. A new kind of apartheid develops between locals and aliens.

Cast: Spy Films

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:26:00 -0400

Cast: Jona Bechtolt, uncleboatshoes and universe

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:38:46 -0400

Behind the scenes blog of "Ultimate Boston":
tomguilmette.com/wp/my-blog/archives/1588

I have a Letus Ultimate in my possession and with the busy schedule of the Playoffs, I have not been able to use it enough. I managed to put aside time to shoot for an entire day, from 5am to 6pm in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. I met up with a friend of mine, Craig Stevens, and we shot a lot of great images. Craig also shot a bunch of still photos of me in action for my behind the scenes blog.

We pushed around all the gear on a Magliner cart for almost 12 hours. It was close to 90 degrees and many people were outside enjoying the weather.

I did many time lapses with the Celestron 114GT telescope panning/tilting head and all of them where set at one frame for every one second. The motor head was set at "5".

Most of the footage in this short was filmed with the Letus Ultimate. Some of the Red Sox time lapse and the baby geese at the end were shot last spring in Boston with the Letus Extreme. You can see the difference (as far as seeing the pattern of ground glass in the shots) compared to the super sharp and clean Letus Ultimate.

The shooting locations for this short were the banks of the Charles River, Paul Revere Park, Quincy Market, Post Office Square Park, South Boston Waterfront.

I shot this short with the Sony PMW-EX1, Letus Ultimate, Vinten Vision 3 tripod system, and Nikon manual 35mm film lenses.

I used mainly these lenses: Nikon 200mm f4 tele, Nikon 300mm f4.5 tele, 50mm f1.4, and the 16mm f2.8 fisheye.

I color graded in post with my own secret brew using Magic Bullet Looks. I also used Twixtor to slow down some of the footage to 26-55 percent. The ripples in the water look great when processed with the Twixtor 4.5 plug-in.

I shot most of this film in 720 30p in over crank mode (60 frames per second). A few of the shots were shot at 30p.

The music is "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers and it has been remixed by Jacques Luconts, Thin White Duke. I must thank the kind people at Post Office Square for allowing me to shoot inside the beautiful park.

TRT: 7 minutes 06 seconds
Size: 160.5 MB
Type: Quicktime mpeg4 720p HDTV

Cast: Tom Guilmette

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:04:30 -0400

watch the american housing market spiral out of control.
beeple.com / myspace.com/nobot / standingwavesound.com

become a beeple fan: facebook.com/pages/beeple/#/pages/beeple/95211636780

become a nobot fan: facebook.com/pages/NOBOT/33513694942?ref=ts

Cast: beeple, NOBOT and kylevandeslunt | sound designer

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:04:54 -0400

On call 24/7 for the past six years, three senior citizens have made history by greeting nearly one million U.S. troops at a tiny airport in Maine. Filled with unexpected turns, their uplifting and emotional journey demonstrates the meaning of community at a time when America needs it most.

Cast: The Way We Get By

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:22:53 -0400

This is Karriem Riggins on Madlib's fucked up drum set at the Loop Digga's Hideaway. New album from Madlib & Karriem under the name Jahari Masamba Unit coming in 2009

Cast: Stones Throw

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:55:53 -0400

Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition.

Sport images are all 1000FPS, and final shot 2500FPS!

For best experience, source file download is warmly recommended.
A native 25fps 720p H264 quicktime file is available thru the Vimeo download link, bottom right, or here : filedropper.com/1857709

For ultimate experience, 1080p QT file is now also available :
yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=497250

Enjoy!

Cast: David Coiffier, lrenard

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:10:01 -0400

Coming March 2009 on iPhone and iPod Touch.

Eliss is an innovative multi-touch game. Your job is to keep up harmony in an odd universe made of blendable planets. Touch-control multiple planets at once, join them together into giant orbs or split them up into countless dwarf planets, and match their size with the squeesars. Wipe off the stardust, resist to the attraction of the vortex and other space phenomena, and slow down the passage of time. Each of the 20 levels will require creative ways and strategies in using your fingers. Warm up your hands, you’re up for some serious finger gymnastics in the bizarro galaxy.

toucheliss.com

Cast: steph thirion

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:19:05 -0400

The latest film by W+K Tokyo Lab creator, Genki Ito.

A curiosity toward science unfolds into an unknown world...

Taking as its inspiration the sub-atomic world of a nuclear fusion reaction,
Clarte visually re-imagines this microcosm into a beautifully poetic
animation, pulsing and flowing along with Jemapur’s dark and textured sound.

Experimenting with HDV recording, analog footage of milk floating on water,
sediment in rotten wine, and caustics from reflected projector lights were
all incorporated into the digital animation.

Cast: Genki Ito

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:23 -0400

A short jingle for Vimeo, just testing hi definition features of this site

Cast: Emilio Loizzo

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:47:42 -0400

Everyone knows the best time to get your baked goods is when they're fresh out the oven. So we figured that this could be a killer use of Twitter. Letting followers know that fresh goodies are ready right now. But bakeries don't want laptops or phones lying around in the kitchen. Flour, eggs and technology don't mix so well.

So we built BakerTweet.

It's a bespoke piece of hardware (with Arduino-based guts) that allows our friends at Albion across the road to select what's just been baked and ping the relevant Twitter message to local customers. Meaning that you can time your trips to Albion to pick up the freshest freshness.

Cast: POKE, Andrew Zolty, flippers, Iain Tait and Nicky Gibson

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:49:22 -0400

In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993.

Shown are several of id's employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack. Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects.

This video has 21 minutes of me playing DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.

Cast: john romero

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:14:12 -0400

School assignment to reinterpret the
fairytale Little red ridning hood.
Inspired by Röyksopps Remind me.

Music: Slagsmålsklubben, Sponsored by destiny
smk.just.nu
Animation: Tomas Nilsson
tomas-nilsson.se

Cast: Tomas Nilsson

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:53:15 -0400

recorded 03/19/09

Cast: Francis and the Lights

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:46:29 -0400

Sunset launching of the Space Shuttle Discovery, shot by Scotty Burns and Jeff Nebelkopf at Skydive Sebastian, Sunday March 15, 2009. Foghead Studios
skydiveseb.com scottyburns.com

Cast: Jeff Nebelkopf, Sky2

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:32:34 -0400

Vimeo HQ - 4:12pm

Blake needs to talk to Jack about the homepage... or at least he tries to.

Cast: Casey Donahue, Jack Zerby, Blake Whitman, Andrew Pile and Soxiam

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:32:11 -0500

In this edition of True Hip-Hop Stories, Sadat X discusses the making of the classic Brand Nubian recording Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down. He also reflects on the state of hip-hop today and how his stint on Rikers Island changed his life.

Cast: D-Nice

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:14:50 -0500

Official video for the first single from 'Junior'!
Directed by Reuben Sutherland
royksopp.com/music/happy-up-here

Cast: Röyksopp

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:47:10 -0500

Designer Dieter Rams talks about his design for the Braun T1000 radio

Cast: Victoria and Albert Museum

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:50:22 -0500

The Normative Music Company
Rationally uniting music and business.
normative.com

Cast: Normative, Francis and the Lights and Reggie Watts

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:29:06 -0500

Francis and the Lights play "Open Your Eyes," by Bobby Caldwell, at the Bowery Ballroom on February 5, 2009. Video by Sam Fuller.

Cast: Francis and the Lights

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:29:54 -0500

Reggie improvised this song a few weeks ago. It was his first video with his electro-harmonix 2880, a looping machine with more flexibility than his normal Line6 DL4.

We shot it at Noah's place; he did the lighting. William helped with the sound. I hope we do more work as a group, just getting together and experimenting.

A production photo:
obeastiality.com/post/6396442

Oh, also, Reggie is going to start working on a new solo album soon. Keep in mind that his Vimeo clips are usually recorded straight into Garage Band and are improvised. Think about what he'll produce when he's in an actual studio and can write out his songs and evolve them.

Cast: Jake Lodwick, Reggie Watts, Noah K. and williamcotton

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:38:52 -0500

After selling out the Bowery Ballroom, Francis and the Lights played a secret show at Zebulon. Video by Justin Oullette.

Cast: Francis and the Lights

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:39 -0500

This is a collection of movies, storyboards and images taken during the making of short film 'The Seed', which I directed. It was produced by Nexus Productions.

Watch the finished film here:
vimeo.com/3715286
--

Credits for the film are as follows:
Story and direction : Johnny Kelly
Production manager: Jo Bierton
2D animation: Michael Zauner
3D animation: Eoin Coughlan

Paper modeler: Elin Svensson
Assisted by: Anna Benner
Stop frame DOP: Micolaj Jarosewicz
Stop frame animation: Matthew Cooper
Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston

Music: Jape
Sound supervisor: Mike Wyeld
Foley artist: Sue Harding

Executive producers: Charlotte Bavasso, Chris O’Reilly
Producer: Christine Ponzevera

Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Creative director: Keith Anderson
Associate Creative Director: Tony Stern
Associate Creative Director: Frank Aldorf
Art director: Johan Arlig
Copywriter: Steve Payonzeck
Art director: Karishma Mehta
Copywriter: Gregory Lane
Interactive Producer: Stella Wong
Art Buyer: Jenny Taich

nexusproductions.com
mickeyandjohnny.com
goodbysilverstein.com
myspace.com/richiejape
mikewyeld.com
kontrastiv.com
elinsvensson.com

Cast: Johnny Kelly, Nexus Productions, Matthew Cooper, Alasdair Brotherston and anna b

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:57:07 -0500

After a recent “Most Days” episode (vimeo.com/2792722), several people asked to see what all's in my menu bar, so I made this little video using ScreenFlow. It's a “proof of concept.” A “pilot program,” if you like. Again: an experiment.

Want to see more of these? Got ideas? Stuff you'd like to see or have ever wondered about? Leave a nice comment below. But, be gentle. It's my first attempt at a screencast, and I'm no Don McAllister.

Full details with links, etc. coming soon on 43folders.com. Shooting for a post tomorrow/Friday or more likely Monday. Gives me time to fix egregious errors and...

**NB**: If you're a developer of one of the mentioned apps and want to give my readers a sweet discount via a coupon code, hit me up at macstuff at 43 folders dawt com with the subject "I Love 43f Readers."

Cast: Merlin Mann

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:14:30 -0500

pleasedontstare.com

Cast: pleasedontstare.com

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:12:23 -0500

Check out the competition artwork, photos, competitors, and judges at cutandpaste.com/.

Enter now for the 2009 Tournament!

Cast: Cut&Paste

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:45:29 -0500

My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top.

I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.

fishrockit.com

NEWS:
Right now you can vote for my film, Star Wars Retold in the Atom Films Star Wars Movie Challenge! Go here and vote and I will both love and cherish you forever: tinyurl.com/lct7w9

Cast: Joe Nicolosi

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:13:28 -0500

1st song: Contact - Violence
2nd: Diz Organ & Sackcloth Fashion - Under Man
no green/blue screen in this video
vimeo.com/thedoctor
ⓒMatchstick Productions

Cast: Ali

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:02:02 -0500

Starring, in order of appearance:

- Marco Arment
- Jacob Bijani
- David Karp

December 31, 2008. Please excuse my poor video shooting skills, shaky hands, and editing.

Shot with the 5D Mark II and the EF 24-105 f/4 L IS, but stabilization was turned off because I forgot to turn it back on after the tripod shots.

Cast: Marco Arment, Jacob and David Karp

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:35:26 -0500

In this edition of True Hip-Hop Stories, Masta Ace discusses his role in creating the classic Juice Crew recording "The Symphony".

Cast: D-Nice

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:57:43 -0500

Cast: pierre o.

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:41:48 -0500

Steve, Jens and Scott of Zacuto USA walk you through how to use your DSLR camera for digital cinematography. See what equipment you need to get great tripod and handheld shots using the new Canon 5D Mark II and Nikon D90 for HD video cinematography. Learn how to handle audio using a DSLR with boom and wireless mics; see these new 35mm depth of field cameras that are going to revolutionize the independent filmmaking industry everyone is talking about.
To learn more: zacutoDSLR.com
for more Zacuto videos: zacutovideo.com

Cast: Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:23:33 -0500

A quick demo of a reliable and sound method of manipulating the aperture for recording videos on the new Canon 5D Mark 2.

Update: as I mention in the video the lowest aperture my lens could get to was f/2.8. Some folks have mentioned that for lenses that could get below f/2.8 they have found that they can set it to f/2.0 and f/1.4 (I haven't verified this btw). I also have been able to record at f/8 but it is a tricky and wacky way to get it and you won't know you got it unless you do some still references.

If you have questions or comments, leave them here or you can reach me on dpreview.com or cinema5d.com as "mrchuckles". I can also be reached at mrchuckles@gmail.com.

Cast: Mark Fong

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:17:01 -0500

Barely Political's beloved Obama Girl goes for the gold.

barelypolitical.com

Cast: Webby Awards

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:51:20 -0500

Vimeo Plus is a premium membership that gives you more control and freedom over your videos! Its perfect for your SD or HD videos!

Visit vimeo.com/plus to learn more.

Special thanks to Wreck&Salvage - vimeo.com/wreckandsalvage - for making this awesome video!

Cast: Vimeo Staff, wreckandsalvage

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:27:34 -0500

Saved by the L: The New Class

Cast: jeff, Eric and Verena von Pfetten

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:12:55 -0500

A short film with language that might not be appropriate for all ages.

Cast: nlj, Orland Nutt, Androo, dalas verdugo, morgan, Rachael Torchia and Peter McArthur

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:27:34 -0500

I made this for my Halloween costume this year.

It's a 16x5 LED matrix installed inside a cheap motorcycle helmet I found on Amazon. I used the Arduino to program all the animations. (arduino.cc)

The LEDs are on cardboard, so I punched holes between every single LED and some larger slits around the sides in order to see out.

Cast: Casey Pugh

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:09:18 -0500

TouchOSC on the iphone talks to processing over wifi.
The display on the PC is coded in processing (not by myself).
All the controls you see here will soon be controlling parameters of my own processing sketches, which could then control other things like Ableton live or Arduino.

Cast: Benjamin Shaw