Jakob Dylan - Something Good This Way
Seemingly simple but it is quite cohesive. Antville commenter:
…beautiful framing (the symmetry and that every shot has a deliberate ‘horizon’ across the middle of the screen). lovely grade.
HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)
Lovely idea.
Tobias Stretch - Transmutation
Dang, I don’t know how this got lost in my mailbox. Urrghh!
This is a rough sketch for a Aniboom Radiohead competition by Tobias Stretch whose earlier work is simply out of this world.
Blue
Slow, especially hard when you are following the exciting Indiana Primary results come in, but it is mesmerizing. Here is how the filmmaker submitted the film:
The idea of the course (Film & Architecture) was to create a small documentary about the subject “Documenting Dessau”, which is the city where the course takes place. It is a small city in former East Germany, south of Berlin, known only for the Bauhaus building and some other modern architecture examples, mostly from Walter Gropius. Instead of going the obvious way and document Dessau as the Bauhaus Stadt, I decided to look at the city from the perspective of the people who live there, in the case us foreigners arriving at a small and decadent city and trying to live there. It is the city as experiences and not as place.
Nice.
Nocturne no. 248
Michael Theodore (previously: Color Dream #246) updated with a new short movie.
Catch it on his website. (If the download doesn’t work or is slow, try here as well.)
Color Dream N°246
Download the Quicktime file, put it in your iPod and play it when you need some tranquility or beauty in your life. Stunning colors that move like streams of water during and after a rainstorm. The colors are great but the movements affect me more.
The creator, Michael Theodore, briefly talks about the technique on Antville.
Skeletor Finds His X-mas Spirit
Scene from He-man Christmas special. Yes, it was that cheesy…
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Contortionists Swan Lake
What do you get when you hand Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to Chinese contortionists?
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Unleash your Imaginario
Imaginario is a Brazilian collective creating animation, sculpture, painting and illustration. Their videoblog covers some of their work, as well as conferences and openings they contributed or attended.
Catch ‘em! (Imaginario on Blip TV)
Previously on NFCs: Africa, Woods.
I can never get tired of timelapse
From the guys that brought you this, here is another timelapse and warm classical music mix.
Evol
I was going to save this for valentine’s day but it is too good to hide away. What if you and the your soulmate in one direction and the rest of the world moved in another? Well, it would be very easy for people to find each other but it would be quite a lot of fun. Directed by Chris Vincze.
Watch it in flash - in Quicktime
P.s. Music video or short?
Holiday Bokeh
A Christmas card in video and bokeh.
Along with giving and receiving gifts, driving to see family has become a holiday tradition (Jesus who?). In these parts, as I drive by small towns, the silent glow of holiday lights bring out the warm fuzzies within me.
The song is the theme music from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, composed by Jon Brion. A song that I can play in repeat forever. Seriously, can music get any prettier than this? Kelly and I have been dancing to this ever since I downloaded it, the video also tries to capture some of that.
Step by step
Rino Stefano Tagliafierro directed and edited this video (photography is by Umberto Nicoletti; actress: Mery Glez) for Vittorio Cosma’s song “Passo dopo passo”, as an entry in La facoltà dello stupore (italian for “Sense of Wonder”) project.
Filmmakers and aspiring directors can download the song from the blog owned by the Italian musician, realize their own videos and submit them.
Watch as: MPEG-4 - MOV - Youtube
Dunder Mifflin Ad - greatest ad of all time or greatest moment in television history?
Alright, I’ll admit, the title is a lot of hype. With that being said, I loved this segment from The Office! Part of the magic is that if you followed the show for any length of time, you expected the worst but got the opposite.
The ads works brilliantly in two modes: suspension of disbelief featured turned 1) on and 2) off. In the “on” mode, the ad created by the employees of Dunder Mifflin is not only genuine but incredibly creative. In the “off” mode, nothing in this ad is impossible for the amateur filmmakers to create. Everything is achieved in the editing and with, I daresay, an elegant voice-over. In the end, it is a wonderful celebration of the raw creativity that people possess.
Billy Joel on Sesame Street
Billy Joel performs an alternate version of Just The Way You Are on Sesame Street for Oscar “The Grouch”, with Marlee Matlin signing.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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