Must see! The slow mo_

Slow Motion [HD] from NicK on Vimeo.

Not sure why this is SO cool…but it is pretty great.

LINK: Ten-Minute Masterpiece of Slow-Mo from Kurzzeit
Werner Mehl of Kurzzeit.com produced a 10-minute video for the 2009 Shot Show. When syndicated via YouTube, this video became an internet phenomenon. It has been watched over 1.42 million times! Employing cameras that deliver up to 1,000,000 (one million) frames per second, Mehl’s bullet flight video has been called “astounding”, “mesmerizing”, and a “work of art.” If you haven’t seen it yet, sit back and enjoy!

Muazzam… Başka söze gerek yok, videoyu izleyin yeter

While I thought the movie totally blew, it was pretty incredible vis a vie the slow motion front. Plus, now I get to add “somersaulting off an elephant tusk” to my tag cloud.

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Steve Moakler

“All the Faint Lights”

September 2009; Independent

By Emily J Ramey

Steve Moakler is one of those new artists that has absolutely everything it takes to make it.  His clear, dulcet vocals, mellow rock instrumentation, and sweet blended acoustic harmonies put him easily at the top of the list of People Who Aren’t Played on the Radio but Should Be.  While listening to his album, All the Faint Lights, I am amazed to hear at least six or seven primary influences.  Moakler has that rare flexibility that allows him to fuse different directions into one cohesive and powerful album.

Moakler takes a page from Matt Nathanson’s book on the first track “True Like Your Name,” but is comparable to fellow Nashville-based musician Mat Kearney on his oh-so-singable “Run.” Moakler sounds a bit like John Mayer on the warm, relaxed “Don’t Have To Think Twice,” and something like Jack Johnson on breezy, light-hearted “Slow Mo.”  “Stay Away from Me,” is probably the boldest track on the album, reminiscent of Jason Mraz or Dave Matthews Band, and “Hesitate” seems an obvious salute to one of Moakler’s personal favorites, Andy Davis, another Nashville-based songwriter.

While each of Moakler’s melodies are silvery, fluid compositions, they’re acoustic nature categorizes them in the over-populated genre of pop folk singer/songwriter; however, Steve Moakler’s true uniqueness surfaces in his emotive lyrics.  Moakler weaves his stories and elevates his words in order to affect not just a narrative but an overarching tone for the piece as a whole.  Listening to each of his soft, rich tunes, Moakler’s audience can feel what he was feeling, and that connection with his listeners is what makes his music so solid.

The first track on All the Faint Lights, “True Like Your Name” boasts a few of the most poignant lyrics on the album: “The sparks in your touch/I’m playing with fire/You’re never too much that I am entirely in/Love is the worst you can’t explain/But once you feel it inside you’re not the same/I climbed so high that I can’t find the air.”  The title track’s lines are simple and passionate: “A song for all the faint lights/They left me stranded and lost/Reaching through empty pockets trying to pay my cost/I put up a fight/But now it’s taking its toll/I’m waiting for something to set fire/Wake up my soul.”  And Moakler’s “Run” is memorable and clever; one particularly thought-provoking line echoed in my head for some time after: “How many times do you set love free/Before you know it’s supposed to be?”

This young songwriter’s words seem to speak for themselves.  As I said before, Steve Moakler and his All the Faint Lights aren’t on the radio yet, but I have no doubt it’s just a matter of time.

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Philip Bloom gives us his first edit after aquiring a pre-production Canon 7D. Shot @ 50p.

More to come…

Source & More Info: Philip Bloom

Einfach schön? Naja, auch ein bisschen schräg, die “Matrix Mäuse”.

Ken Block is an absolutely amazing driver. Gymkhana 1 was an absolutely amazing video.

The latest video from DC Shoes featuring him? Not close to being as great as the original.

Why not? I will explain.

Let me tell you I LOVE this vid and for reasons the directors failed to understand due to words that would ring true to, “mitigating circumstances.”

This was a vid that was ALWAYS supposed to be about Ken BLock.

Why is it then that this turned into a video about DC Shoes? The first installment hardly even mentioned DC Shoes…the second had them jumping up and down screaming, “Hey! Look at me and my crazy slo-mo, stomping on balloon skills!”

Sadly, Ken Block kinda took a back seat in this video ( somewhat ) in relation to the corporate agenda put in place by DC Shoes.

The flashbacks to the all encompassing, kick-major-ass, adrenaline injecting reasons the first DC Shoes/Ken Block Gymkhana was such a success are not really present in this video. I didn’t get the same “buzz” I got from the first flick.

The video was loaded with too much crap and not enough Blockage.

Cue crap comment: ” I feel like I’m scuba diving…I feel like I’m scuba diving.”

Say no to drugs kids.

People aren’t stupid and I’m sure we could all see that, once again, it was a case of “corporate B.S” trying to ride the coat-tails of the success of an individual.

In the first Ken Block Gymkhana 1, the scene with Block smashing doughies around the guy on the seg-way literally had people on the edge of their seats and as I watched, I was left with the thought that, “Whoa, that Block guy must be absolutely insane!!”

But was it “insane” or “crazy” for him?

Probably not.

The second flick had a guy, in the same role, this time doing something more…authentically melodramatic, let’s say.

I can imagine it being something like this…

Director: “Yeah, so for this next scene, we’ll have Block, that guy over there…in the…( Hey, pssst, what’s that car called again?)..oh, YEAH, the Soo-Bah-Roo, hammer down towards “Dave” here… and then instead of that old mobile Seg-Way moving forward like in the last video… let’s equip Dave with a…well, a gun, a BIG gun…so he can stand there and look really tough on camera..and then he can, ohhh, I don’t know – take the focus away from Ken Block…and…Oh YEAH! Shoot…wait for it… PAINT BALLS at Block as he does donuts around him!!

And then, when he’s nearly finished his paint ball load, we can have him hoist his pea shooter in the air and fire off a couple of celebrationary shots!! Coz’ the guys tough! Like.. Block, tough! “

*R/O Slaps forehead*

Can someone please check the classifieds for a talented director wanted in Hollywood, ASAP…

Look. I liked the vid…but for only one reason…

It wasn’t the crappy paint ball stuff, it wasn’t the crappy props littered around the docklands ( blue water balloons?? ) and it definitely wasn’t the hair raising, “tag a WRX with your paint filled water balloon” game, that got the masses excited (That was just plain stupidity) nor was it the, “Smashing of flouro lights across each others chests as a show of manhood to get me excited”, ploy…

This was not aimed at Scandanavians who innately know the “flick”. This was a media driven advertisement, aimed at the popular masses that buy DC shoes and who may know a thing or two about a turbo and an AWD system…

…but who gives a stuff if the dude driving it was Ken Block?

Ken Block was the true star of this show that, unfortunately, you kinda had to look for in this vid.

That is not how the first video went and the first installment was not made that way. The first video was all about one man and one machine…and a guy on a seg-way!

That’s what made it the massive spectacle it is and that is what made it one of the most posted videos on the net.

I liked this video purely because it managed to capture some amazing jewels from the vault of K.B’s “Driving for Lunatics” manual – one such example being the occasion he came out of the dock lands full throttle and was sideways holding it flat and then suddenly, there was a drop off…straight into the ocean and yet, Block kept the boot stuck firmly into it …drifting it right to the edge!

If that wasn’t enough, a slow mo quickly followed and that left us in no doubt Ol’ Blockhead is definitely insane in some areas of his brain.

Yes, Slo-Mo was a blessing and a curse for this movie. the director had too much of it in some parts and not nearly enough of it in others.

The scene with the dummy was just stupidity. They should’ve used the guy with the paint gun and his pedo ’stache instead.

Let us not forget though, that... the first video was only really ever about KEN BLOCK.

Not DC shoes. I don’t even LIKE DC shoes.

Puma speed, drift and future cat shoes are way better.

I saw the new Ken Block video, Gymkhana 2

Pretty cool.

Haven’t seen it yet?

Ok, here…watch this…

Using D90 to do slow mo and reverse for my Final Year Projecct. It is impossible for you to do slow mo with 24fps camera because when you do slow mo you will need more frame per second to add in. But, kind of satify with the slow mo result after edit it with After Effect CS4. Instead of adding frame into it, the software slow the fps for the video. That’s sound weird…LOL

oh yea, in this footage there is no lighting at all. Just using all the natural light. Seriously, no joke. Using prime lense 20mm at f2.8, so this kind of situation is possible…

Enjoy

Super slow motion video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12 foot monster barrel – the first shots of their kind ever recorded. Make sure you watch the video in HD.

HD super slow motion video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom in a 12 foot monster barrel the first shots of their kind ever recorded.

The full story is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BOhDaJH0m4&fmt=22