TIME Magazine's latest cover was made by 958 Intel drones that were preprogrammed to create a sky animation of the TIME logo with red border. The Intel drones were also used to create a sky graphic during the Winter Olympics. For the TIME cover, the drones could not...
Art of Video
Faces Places – Art Documentary/Road Movie
An 89-year old leading figure of the French New Wave, and an acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist co-direct this French art documentary/road movie. They travel in a photo van which has a photo booth and an oversized printer. Their mission is to make...
Hologram, Peppers Ghost and a New Live Performance for Dead Artists
Maria Callas, the legendary opera star, was according to the NY Times the greatest singer of the 20th Century. She died in 1977, but she performs in a new concert with a live orchestra. A company called Base Hologram is using an old technique called Peppers Ghost with...
8 x 10 Video Camera
I just completed designing and building an 8×10 video camera, the first in the world that I know of. Essentially its off-axis reimaging of a projected image. It’s a bit like IMAX, but waaaaay bigger. – Zev Hoover Before you get too excited, the camera is indeed an 8 x...
Brilliant Video Sells Used Honda for $20,000
This video has had over 6 million views in two weeks. They were asking $500 for the car. They received from Carmax a hilarious-but-real offer to buy the car for $20,000. They accepted and sold the car to Carmax. Here's the Carmax video that bid $20,000 for the car.
Reversing a Video Clip
I'm working on a short video promoting my transfer business. I thought about the Bob Dylan video
Kodachrome – A New Magazine from Kodak
"Kodachrome" is a limited edition magazine geared toward people who love “art, film and analog culture.” It goes beyond the world of analog photography and filmmaking. Kodak says it also about film, writing, sculpture, music, graphics. It is about art and analog...
Filming in Zero Gravity
OK Go, the American Rock band, has another music video that pushes the boundary of physical possibility. This time they are filming in zero gravity. You saw them in our previous post called One Moment Music Video, but this time they're in a plane with zero gravity....
Ford Motors remakes “C’était un rendez-vous”
"C'était un rendez-vous" (Translation: It Was a Date) is a 1976 French short film directed by Claude Lelouch, showing a high-speed drive through Paris. The name was later shortened to "Rendez-vous." It was shot in a single take as an example of cinéma-vérité. The film...
Some Cheap Lighting Tricks
If you know how to light, there are some cheap lighting tricks you can find in a hardware store or online. If you are shooting a living room that includes table lights, it's standard practice to temporarily replace the incandescent light bulbs. Use similar bulbs which...
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