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Abraj: The two towers of Dubai

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:59:59 +0000

Timelapse video by Philip Bloom featuring the two iconic towers of Dubai. The Burj Al Arab and the world’s tallest building. The Burj Khalifa.

Music is by Vaughan Williams: Variations on theme by Thomas Tallis

She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting…

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:30:13 +0000

This is a non-commercial attempt to highlight the fact that world leaders, irresponsible corporates and mindless ‘consumers’ are combining to destroy life on earth.

Via: equisdx

Also shown here another good one: The world is where we live

The travel diaries 2011

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:56:54 +0000

Loneliness, detached, overwhelmed, fascinated, homesick – a year of travelling around the globe on business trips.

Gunther Machu flew 6 times around the world, spent 1.5 weeks (net) in airplanes 2011 and collected shots the whole year for this project.

He walked for hours around airports to get the one shot, got nearly arrested at Chicago O’Hare but had some good luck too!

Filmed at Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Chicago, Houston, Dubai, Frankfurt and my home – airport Vienna.

Shot on Lumix GH1 and GH2 (both hacked), by making use of the ETC mode on the GH2 I was able to get up to 3200mm equiv. focal length.

Hope you enjoy this!

Lost in Tokyo

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:17:57 +0000

Mark Bramley had 2 days to himself in Tokyo so he decided to take about 10,000 photos. All shot on a Canon 5D MkII. All the video footage was shot handheld.

And this is the brilliant result.

Athens, the little great city

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:20:34 +0000

Enojy the video from Emmanouil Papadopoulos

music | Gustavo Santaolalla – Pajaros

LA Light

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:58:49 +0000

Song by Cinematic Orchestra cinematicorchestra.com/

Shot with a 5D MK II and a 7D

Zeiss 35, 50 1.4, 85 1.2, Canon 15mm, 24mm, 24-105, 70-300mm,

MOCA Kessler Cineslider, revolution head, and various DIY contraptions he has built for zoom motor control.

Colin Rich sought out to capture the electric radiance of Los Angeles at night.

It took him 6 months of on and off shooting to finish this project and he has learned a couple things along the way.

First off, LA might be the entertainment capital of the world, but it sure is difficult to shoot around downtown without having homeland security officers, police, or security take notice and harass you. Know your shooting rights!

Shooting time lapses is a labor of love and a study in patience.

Megalomania

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:14:33 +0000

Megalomania perceives the city in total construction. The built environment is explored as a labyrinth of architecture that is either unfinished, incomplete or broken. Megalomania is a response to the state of infrastructure and capital, evolving the appearance of progress into the sublime.

Constructed predominantly using 3d Studio Max and rendered with Vray. Organic movement sequences were originally filmed on a Canon 5D mkII, tracked in PF Track and developed in CG. Demolition created using Rayfire. All compositing done in Adobe After Effects, edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. Audio recorded and coordinated using Adobe Audition. More information about the project at thoughtsnotthoughts.blogspot.com/

Plan of the city

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:08:58 +0000

“One of the best matches of visuals to music I’ve seen.”
– Anne Midgette, Washington Post

more info on the director:
joshuafrankel.net/Plan_Of_The_City.html
twitter.com/#!/frankelfrankel

more info on the music:
newamsterdamrecords.com/#Album/Awake

A new film combing animation with live action conceived of and directed by Joshua Frankel, about the architecture of New York City blasting off into outer space and resettling on Mars. The film’s visuals are an animated collage combining live action footage, animated elements, illustrations and treated photographs, including photos taken by the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity made available to the public domain by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Plan of the City was created in collaboration with composer Judd Greenstein and NOW Ensemble, an acclaimed “indie classical” chamber ensemble; the ensemble, including Greenstein, feature prominently in the film as live actors set inside the animated framework.

The audio of the film consists solely of Greenstein’s Change, performed by NOW Ensemble; Change and Plan of the City were created in parallel, each expressing its own artistic intention while simultaneously serving its “sibling”.

The film was presented with the music performed live, timed to the film, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City in May, 2011. It also exists as its own stand-alone entity, utilizing NOW Ensemble’s recent studio recording of Change(out on New Amsterdam Records).

Director: Joshua Frankel

Music: “Change”, composed by Judd Greenstein and performed by NOW Ensemble

Cast: Sara Budde, Patrick Burke, Logan Coale, Mark Dancigers, Judd Greenstein, Michael Mizrahi, Alexandra Sopp, Susie Simpson, Celia Au, Jonthan Chang, Dan Chen, William Lex Ham, Ting Hu, Tammi Lee, Doua Moua, Rachel Shapira

Producer: Elissa Federoff
DP: Clayton Combe
Choreographer: Will Rawls
AD: Rachel Horlick
Key Grip: Christopher Fisher
Gaffer: Justyn Davis
Props: Eve Biddle
Script Supervisor: George Westberg
Stylist: Jenni Shaw
Asst Stylist: Julianne Laney
Casting Lauren Charkow
PAs: Clark Frankel, Daisuke Kasagawa, John Kitsis

Edited by: Joshua Frankel and George Westberg

Greenscreen Keying and Rotoscoping: Spline VFX
VFX Supervisor: Leslie Chung

Tools Development: Clay Budin, Dan Fast

Digital Artists: Dave C Frankel, Carolyn Frisch, Rio Harrington, Minwoo Lee, Suzanne Porush, Hyun Jung Ra, David Sarma, Adam Yost

Studio and Invaluable Support provided by My Active Driveway

Images of Mars Courtesy of NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Caltech

Made possible with a generous grant from New York State Council On The Arts

The Third & The Seventh

admin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:49:24 +0000

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Credits:

CG |Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman
POST |Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman
MUSIC Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)

Sound Design by Alex Roman based on original scores by:

Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Directed by Alex Roman
Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

The Unseen Sea

admin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:12:17 +0000

A collection of time lapses Simon Christen took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.