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Address Is Approximate

rog — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:43:51 +0000

Spotted this video on the VimeoHD channel last night. It’s a story of a desk toy longing for an escape from the dark office.. It’s a stop motion animation shot using Google Street View, and some office furniture. I had to watch it a couple of times to take in some of the details. The way the lights in the tunnels sync with the desk lights circling overhead is a particularly nice touch.

Red Scarlet X Footage

rog — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:45:38 +0000

Tonaci Tran was the first person to receive a Red Scarlet after it’s launch last week. He has posted a short clip up on Vimeo. There is still a lot more to see from this camera but the footage does look very nice. I’d particularly like to see how this camera performs with some low light shots.

I guess this is the first of many as more Scarlets make their way in to the world!

Also here are some super hi-res stills…

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3236260/scarlet/A002_C135_0105AT.0000220.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3236260/scarlet/A002_C141_0105YG.0000056.jpg

Some beautiful footage

rog — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:06:40 +0000

Had a very busy and not so relaxing weekend in London. Went to a surprise party for a friends 30th Birthday and filmed the whole thing for the Britain in a Day project. Lots of work to do to get the footage ready for them now though.. Also stumbled across a couple of very nice videos over the weekend. Here they are:

This is some beautiful time lapse footage from the International Space Station (ISS) collected between August and October by astronauts Ron Garan and Satoshi Furukawa. There isn’t much to say about this really. It just looks fantastic and has a brilliant soundtrack to compliment it. I particularly like the flashes of lightning in the clouds as they pass over storms.

The Redneck Hippie by Phillip Bloom is a beautifully shot documentary about a Texan native called Pierce who loves his guns. I’ve never really mentioned Phillip Bloom on here but he is a very well known film maker and an early adopter in the DSLR world. He has recently purchased a RED EPIC and is putting it to good use on stories like this. He also managed to get hold of a Phantom FLEX for those ultra slow motion shots. His write up about the shoot goes in to a lot of detail about both cameras and the problems that he encounters on the way. Definitely worth a read if your in to that sort of thing.

I’m looking for some interesting characters based around the Birmingham area so that I can put together a small documentary about them. If you know someone who is unique send me an email or drop some information in the comments below.

Drive

rog — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:26:39 +0000

I went to the cinema on Sunday night to see Drive, the latest film by Nicolas Winding Refn starring Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. When a job goes wrong, a contract is put out and he has to do what he can to stay alive and get to the person who’s taken out the contract.

Whilst that description might sound like your standard run of the mill movie akin to The Transporter, there is quite a bit more to Drive than that, Gosling plays an introvert character with a seemingly well controlled anger problem. He is a beast that rarely rears his ugly side but when he does it erupts in a very violent fashion and the same can be said for the film in general.

Refn’s directing style is a smooth 80′s affair with soft focus complimented by an equally smooth soundtrack by Cliff Martinez. I enjoyed the soundtrack that much that I purchased it and when I listen to it I feel like I’m a part of the movie.

If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend this film. Probably the nicest looking film I’ve seen since A Single Man.

College feat. Electric Youth – A Real Hero:

Trailer:

Happy New Year!!

rogthefrog — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:46:32 +0000

I’m feeling pretty fat after christmas and the button on my trousers popped off on my first day back at work. I guess the diet starts here.

For christmas I got a Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens, a gingerbread house and a litre of Bombay Sapphire, this is what came out!

Also i’ve been playing with twixtor and having fun in the snow, so I made this.

Soon i’ll get round to editing the footage from the Jurassic Park themed party for new year and lots of Christmas sledging, so keep your peepers peeled!

TRON: Legacy

rogthefrog — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:41:03 +0000

I’m very excited about this movie, apparently for Avatar they used 3 cameras for the 3D and that looked pretty crisp. In Tron:Legacy they used up to 10 cameras, I think this is going to push 3D to the next level.

This short documentary focuses on the sound design for Tron. I’ve just booked my tickets to go see this at the IMAX. Pretty excited!

SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of TRON LEGACY from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

Source Code Trailer

rog — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:36:52 +0000

I was pretty excited about Duncan Jones’ last film Moon. I loved the design of the poster and the trailer intrigued me. I felt compelled to go and see it. When I saw it, I loved it. The Soundtrack with the weary reverb soaked piano built tension giving a constant feeling that Sam Bell wasn’t alone, it was beautifully shot and had a perfect solo performance from Sam Rockwell. If you haven’t seen it, go, now, DO IT!

I just watched the trailer for Duncan Jones’ second feature: Source Code. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier in a military experiment where he takes on the body of another man on a train for the last eight minutes of his life in order to try to stop the train from exploding and prevent another future terrorist attack. Whilst that may sound like another standard action/sci-fi movie a la Deja Vu, because it is directed by Jones it’s definitely worth a look. The soundtrack also got me in the mood, I think that we are in for another Clint Mansell masterpiece.

Penki: 3D Light Painting

rogthefrog — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:30:49 +0000

Just got sent this by Marie, they created an iPhone app that allows you to create 3D lightpainting on long exposure photographs, check out the video as it’s pretty difficult to explain.

I’ve done a bit of very basic light-painting before, but never anything this cool. Can’t wait to try this out, photo’s/videos to follow.

You can check out the full article here and their vimeo page lives here :)

I want a weather balloon

rogthefrog — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:48:57 +0000

Sorry dad, but this kid’s dad is waaayyyy cooler.

If only we had this kind of tech when I was a kid.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

A Busy Week…

rogthefrog — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:07:31 +0000

I’ve never written anything about my band before. But this week has been really busy, we have spent about 10 hours recording and played a great gig last night supporting Tellison and Kytes. Someone took a couple of videos and I took a few photo’s in the studio, so I thought I would post them here.

Enjoy :)