Gatsby’s Back and Baz Luhrmann Takes It Way Out There
In a trailer for Baz Lurmann’s latest Uberwork, The Great Gatsby, Baz shows he’s all Jazzed up on trippy buzzing screens again and packed with action. Nothing is real, and everything is overdone… Baz style. A solemn Leonardo DiCaprio seems incapable of pulling off a Gatsby style performance while the contemporary music of Jay-Z and […]
Read PostHoof and Paw Love – Only in Australia –
What happens when a goat falls in love with a dog at an ASPCA? You need to adopt both of them, if you have a heart. Here’s a tail of love that may be not so forbidden between a cloven hooved goat and a padded foot dog. Would make some crazy looking kippies, wouldn’t they? […]
Read PostCollege Video Supplement – Tufts
Tufts University now permits all undergraduate applicants to submit a supplemental video 2 minutes long or less with their application. Here are some of the more notable submissions with the hits they have as of 5/9/12. My Big Fat Greek Tufts Supplement – 5826 (hits) When I first Met Tufts – 3766 Dan Marcus – […]
Read PostIs it a Doc? Maybe, Maybe NOT. COD is back!
What if the documentary you thought you were watching was actually a promo for a new video game…. say one with the name Call of Duty? Well that’s the scenario in a new newsy looking promo for the high tech video game (Call of Duty Black Ops 2) and it stars Reagan administration fall guy […]
Read PostTime 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.
Read PostCapturing 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 […]
Read PostUnder 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.
Read PostCaine’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 […]
Read PostWould 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?
Read PostTen 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 […]