April 2012 (5)

Time Lapse of Venice

Here’s some great time lapse video shot by Joerg Niggli in Venice.  The way it’s shot the people and boats look like toy models…. this has an extremely peculiar trance like effect, though it’s fun to watch. Venice in a Day from Joerg Niggli on Vimeo.  

12 years ago Leave a reply Special Effects, Time Lapse Video, video
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Capturing the Beauty of our World – Louie Shwartzberg

Here’s a man whose life has been devoted to capturing the beauty in the world around us and sharing it via time lapse photography on film.  Louie Shwartzberg’s ten minute appearance talking about Gratitude is quite remarkable – he shows lots of film clips at this excerpt from his TED talk, and mighty inspirational. “Let […]

12 years ago Leave a reply Feel good film, inspirational video
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Under the Sea Ice: An Eskimo’s Race Against Time for Dinner

Fascinating footage from a BBC one documentary about Eskimo mussel hunters whose quest for food is known to cost them their lives.  It took some Brave cinematographers to shoot this one.

12 years ago Leave a reply cinematography, Story Telling, Video production
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Caine’s Arcade – Moving Short Film

Here’s a sweet short film that I spotted on CNN about a nine year old’s love of old fashioned game arcades and how he built his own great one.  Hang in there, it starts slow, but it has a wonderful surprise ending.  Watch Caine’s face.  That’s a happy boy. The video has gone viral. The […]

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Would you Press the button? TNT Arrives.

Here’s a great promotion/stunt to call attention to TNT’s arrival in Belgian.  Would you press the button?

12 years ago Leave a reply Promotion
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Ten Days Around the World. What an Adventure. What a Film.

Here’s a wild adventure film.  Could have been done a lot of different ways, but these two gents picked a good approach.  BIG ADVENTURE. They were asked to make a film for a friend about makeitcount and they decided to take an adventure instead….. and film it.  That it’s about making it count, well, that’s […]

12 years ago Leave a reply Production Values, Social Media Advertising, Video production, Wild Video
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Name the Movies – Classic Movies Disco Style

Here’s a fun piece of editing done with clips from classic movies cut to a contemporary music track we all know –  Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees.  Fun to watch.  Here’s a tougher game to play while you watch – How many stars and movies can you name? We can make one of these […]

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