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I made this quick little rant last night comparing the email messages users receive from two different party-/event-planning websites. It’s fairly obvious that one of them allows its business model to dictate a user experience that’s actually fairly abusive to their end users.
Part of a project my buddy Ryan Booth is working on called Don’t Forget Haiti. I don’t much about the project, but this film is incredibly powerful. I love his filming and post-processing style on this.
Ryan has an in-depth post on his blog about the project, along with another video called Slidewalk. It’s only a minute long and it will impact you.
ps – You can grab the music from it on Gatlin Elm’s website.
I’m such a sucker for these kinds of short films. This one takes a slightly different look at New York City. No skylines, no subways, or any of the cliché landmarks. For some reason it makes the lives that are being filmed seem more real or human.
Check it out on Vimeo for HD or get some more information in an interview with the filmmaker. He put over 35,000 still images into this thing. Amazing.
I love this short from Ryan Booth that he shot out of an airplane window. Also, read the accompanying blog post Airplane Quiet and check out the photos with it. I love the color and tone of them and his remarks on flying.
“We are miles up in the air hurtling at nearly 700 feet per second. Even though air travel is relatively routine for us, the reality is that I am engaging in an activity that only the smallest fraction of humans have ever been able to do. I am seeing clouds in a way that almost no one has seen them. I am traveling faster than most human beings have ever traveled.” ~Airplane Quiet
A gorgeous short film by Brad Kremer. I love that it gets out of the city, into the countryside, for a view of Japan that I don’t often see. The harbor scene at dusk/night is especially fantastic. Be sure to click through to the Vimeo page for more info and the HD version.
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Brilliant little short directed by Davis Silis and produced by From Our Shores. The fake “film” effect is clutch.
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I thought I posted about this video series before, but I can’t find the post. I’m not a coffee drinker, myself, but these short videos filmed at Intelligentsia in Los Angeles are fascinating. They’re beautiful and artfully done by Department of the 4th Dimension.
Three have been released so far. This one, on the Cappuccino, one on the Espresso, and another on making straight, black coffee with a Syphon.
Brilliantly done. The trailer “template” for pretty much every academy award winning movie, ever.
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I first saw this band when I was spending a week in New York with the Carbonmade team. I liked them a lot live, and then fell in love with their new album released the next month. This is one of my favorite songs from Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said The Last Time I Saw You (and an excellent music video, as well).
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Tonight, I will be witnessing this in person. I can’t remember the last time I was this excited for a concert/show.
I’d never heard of Philip Pullman or his book with the, apparently, controversial title when I first saw this video. But his response is brilliant. And it’s really not about his book or book title, it’s about life and freedom of speech. You can’t expect the world around you to be regulated such that you (and you, specifically) will never be offended. Being offended is actually your choice.
Beautiful time-lapse videos filmed over 5 days and nights in Dubai. Philip talks more about the shoot in this article.
I was very ready to pan this. I mean, Mobile Safari kicks some serious ass, and why try anything different? But this is a pretty impressive demo. I think the truth will be in the accuracy of the rendering engine, and everyone’s comfortability in sending ALL data through Opera’s servers (which is how they comply with Apple’s SDK requirements), but I’m already interested. If nothing else, it would be nice to have a faster browser for quickly checking a few sites when stuck in an AT&T EDGE (of death) zone.
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Parkour is awesome. Stop motion is awesome. Put the two together…
Amazingly, Serene Teh illustrated each frame with pen and put it together “flip-book” style.
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Live, recorded in one take with an ambient mic. My friend, Micah told me about Holly Miranda yesterday after discovering her at SXSW. It’s a beautiful little video, and I’m currently enjoying her new album, The Magician’s Private Library.
The band Sigur Rós is known for having amazing live shows, but their lead singer, Jónsi, seems to be taking it up another notch for the tour supporting his new solo album. He’s hired a production company out of London that typically builds sets and designs lighting for theatrical products, not music live shows. What they’re working on looks amazing.
Over the last year I had the honor of sharing office space with the Tweety Got Back crew. They are simple wonderful, and so is their new site. If you’re on Twitter and don’t have a fun theme set up, go grab one. They’ve made it ridiculously easy.
Beautiful, but very sad peek into a documentary on someone’s dog.
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As always, I’m a sucker for good info-graphics and good motion-graphics. Put the two together and you’ve really got me.
You have to watch this a couple times to really internalize some of the numbers. In particular, Facebook’s overall dominance is simply staggering.
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Chilling and haunting, yet still beautiful. Shot with a 5d Mark II. Read more on Khalid’s Vimeo page.
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