Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins. Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. More info here: Address is ApproximateRead more
Posts tagged: #Video
Video of dolphins following our boat to Puerto Galera
This was pretty awesome. About halfway into the two hour boat ride to the island of Mindoro, a group of dolphins surfaced and followed us for a few minutes. Watch the clip. (this is my first SmugMug video embedding, so please let me know if you can’t view it) Pardon the wind noise, but I grabbed the nearest camera which happened to be my iPhone 4.Read more
10 MINUTE FILM SCHOOL WITH ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
From Chase Jarvis’ blog: “Robert Rodriguez is a special breed of filmmaker, a breed that we’ll continue to see more and more of as filmmaking technology becomes increasingly accessible and affordable.  The do-it-yourselfers who are so technically savvy that they can oversee and drive every aspect of their production.  Since his first DIY breakout film “El Mariachiâ€, Robert has been able to maintain total creative control of his films mostly due to one thing:  the dude knows how to stretchRead more
The Ice Book – Pop-Up Book Brought to Life with a Canon 5D mk II [video]
The Ice Book (HD) from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo. “The Ice Book is a miniature theatre show, a pop-up book that comes to life as if by magic. It tells the story of a mysterious princess who lures a boy into her magical world to warm her heart of ice. It is made from sheets of paper and light, designed to give a live audience an intimate and immersive experience of film, theatre, dance, mime and animation. WeRead more
1000 frames per second: Flamethrower VS Fire Extinguisher (video)
DANCING PIGEONS – “RITALIN” Dancing Pigeons – Ritalin from Blink on Vimeo. â€It was difficult to know how this shootout would look like in superslowmo. We did some tests with a gas-flamethrower but the flame was only 2-3 meters and it looked quite bad in slowmo, so the special effects guys had to build a new flamethrower from scratch. They made one with liquid fuel, and that one was much better, firing out 10-15 meter flames. But the first timeRead more