From Iceland with Love !
Lea Amiel and Nicolas Libersalle loves Iceland. Just back from their last trip, they propose us to share their experience with this film of great poetry.
Read MoreIbiza by other eyes
Stars, clouds, shadows, lights… a different view of the beautiful island of Ibiza ! A movie realized by Jose A. Hevas in Timelapse.
Read MoreNature Is You
You see the world as it is at the present time – and it is worth dropping a tear. As humans we play an important part in nature, and it is our mission to sustain it and to take care of it.
In the most recent commercial, the Dutch Supermodel Doutzen Kroes shows skin for WWF. She accepted the offer to join the campaign to support the survival of the natural world. She demonstrates that we are part of nature and so is nature part of us. Sprouting and blooming, plants are emerging from her body and at the end she reaches for a new born, which also had become part of nature. The music by Niki Reisner expresses the cold and lugubrious moment.
WWF is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012 with their slogan Nature is You. With their new course, WWF aims to inspire people and businesses to contribute to preserving nature.
Credit:
Client: WWF
Date: Apr, 2012
Read MoreHave You Met Daniel Clowes?
The American comic artist Daniel Clowes is one of today’s most successful and respected graphic novelists and cartoonist of alternative comic books.
Clowes is famous for his stylistic genius, his mixing of heartfelt emotion and biting cynicism. He published around fourteen books, not to mention dozens of comics and in the last two years, he published three graphic novels.
Admired by the fine artists, some would even compare him with the Pop artist Alex Katz.
His cartoon faces are usually made of a few precisely placed lines or brush strokes, concentrating on some specific characteristics, which constitute the persons personality.
Credits:
Artist: Daniel Clowes
Date: 2012
Read MoreBangkok Calling
Let us present a piece by Laurent Tixhon Belgian director of photography. He has a nice series of inspired videos uploaded in his portfolio, and offers his services as cameraman, movie artist and a steadicam operator.
This clip is about the Thai capital, Bangkok. We can follow two residents of the city and live through beautiful moments with them. The created ambiance is quite calm and poetic, despite the fact that the storyline would suggest otherwise.
Excellent steadicam realization.
Credits:
Realization: Laurent Tixhon
Music : Time – Hans Zimmer
Date: Apr, 2012
Read MoreFrom Peru To Brazil
Amazing shots of a trip through South America by the Norwegian photographer BabaBC. He captured most of his trip with his Canon EOS 550D, a camera with a lot more technology than its predecessor the EOS 500D. (Unfortunately this camera got stolen and he switched to EOS 600D). The most impressive special feature of the EOS 550D is the high-spec movie mode with a manual control over the exposure, which is not the case with the models before.
During the summer months of 2011, BabaBC made a trip through Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and finally Brazil, which would become the summer of his life.
His trek started in Machu Picchu and the Colca Canyon in Peru, he passed the Atacama Desert in Chile, and crossed Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat in Bolivia. In Argentina, he admired the Iguazu Falls in Buenos Aires. In Uruguay he visited Colonia del Sacramento, and in Brazil he experienced the city life of Rio de Janeiro.
BabaBC caught the most amazing scenes in a very nice perspective, especially succeeded in the intro and the closure, showing the starry nights of the Southern American mountains.
Another feature accentuating his unique adventure is the selected music, Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield. The highlight of the tune comes with the entering to the city of Rio de Janeiro. He catches scenes of people celebrating the result of a football match in a bar and the stadium, dancing and partying.
A wonderful movie with images, which are too difficult to express. The desire for South America.
Credits:
Director: BabaBC
Music: Mike Oldfield
Date: Mar, 2012
Read MoreBirth of a Book?
A book in 2012 is probably not as a respected item as it was 20 years ago. Without good marketing or the help of some valuable unpaid blog or press releases it’s pretty hard to increase the sale of these goods. How can we get back the good old smell of books?
Well, just because of the appearance of e-books and interactive reading applications like Readmill, we shouldn’t simply give up reading real books. The following short spot, directed by Glen Milner, shows the procedure of a book being created by using traditional printing methods. The cute little printer workroom is called Smith-Settle Printers and can be found in Leeds, England.
Easter is on the corner, so don’t hesitate, ask for a copy of Suzanne St Albans’ ‘Mango and Mimosa’, to feel the insight of “old-times’ pleasure”!
Credits:
Client: Daily Telegraph
Director: Glen Milner
Date: Mar, 2012
Read MoreThe Most Valuable Source – Water
Director Gabe Askew created a short film for the Columbia Water Center, in which he captures the importance of what the Center is doing. Together with Hornet Inc., a production company located in New York City, and GOOD/Corps. he produced an animation, a mixed media film using various tools, jewels, an unfolding box, and paper figures to depict a serious problem CWC is dealing with.
Although our planet is covered in water, only 2,5 % of the Earth’s water is fresh water. Furthermore, with the constantly growing population and the resulting climate changes, the demand for water is increasing, as well. 70% goes to farming uses, 22% is used by industries, which leave only 8% for everyone else. But the output of this 8% is equally distributed.
The Columbia Water Center aims to solve global water issues above and below the ground by addressing the roots of the problem. We must go beyond digging to find the right crop, the right planting methods, and change the way we use the most valuable resource.
You must go ‘Deeper than Water’.
Credits:
Agency: GOOD/Corps
Client: Columbia Water Center
Director: Gabe Askew/ Hornet Inc.
Date: March, 2012
Read MoreI Love People
Everybody has dreams. Maybe smaller ones, maybe bigger, maybe material, maybe not. Benjamin Jenks had one too, one that came true.
The story of his dream started with a camera and the idea of hitchhiking around the USA for a year. It doesn’t seem something extraordinary or reckless, but the toughness and diligence of this guy made it like that. With great hard work and social skills, he met 930 people and created a 162 seconds video of his 5,000 miles journey. What’s that if not Advanced Level of Inspiration!?
If you want to be one of these ‘Benji Jenkins’ guys, don’t hesitate, click on the given website (written at the end of the video), or leave the hell all these instructions and follow your own rambling mind to make your dreams come true!
Credits:
Director, Photographer: Ben Jenkins
Music: lehtmojoe
Date: Mar, 2012
Read MoreSlicing Time
Slicing the time – who would’ve thought this can actually happen? Jan Brockmann and his crew made it possible with a simple HD video, capturing snapshots and images of night surfing.
On the Eisenbach in Munich, Germany, the crew positioned forty Lumix GH2 and Lumix G3 cameras along the river. As dawn was approaching they prepared huge flashlights to expose the river. The whole video recording with forty different perspectives made it possible to gain a third dimension and to cut into time.
But who had these 40 cameras? The crew presented their project Panasonic Germany and immediately received a positive feedback. And because this foolish idea to shoot a surfing competition on a rapid stream in the city of Munich was so new and sensational, Panasonic was totally up for it.
The equipment for the whole stage was provided by Panther Rental, WeissCam and Ewa Marine. Matthias Uhlig put together the whole technical devices – and assured that all cameras would start shooting at the exact same time. With the sunset the surfers got ready to jump on their boards, and in the last second the crew managed to position the cameras in the right angle.
Enjoy this great piece of art, with the stirring music by Marc Bühler.
Credits:
Director: Jan Brockmann & Saubere Filme
Time Slicer: Matthias Uhlig, Sigfried Kuckstein
Date: Sept, 2011
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