A masterpiece!!!


OFFF Barcelona 2011 Main Titles from OFFF, let's feed the future on Vimeo.

BRAVO! Postpanic and everyone involved!

I haven't watched lots of animation lately... today I stumbled upon this one. Woha, this is brilliant!


Dirty Deeds - Stupid People from Flying V on Vimeo.

Ungu from Blake Kueny on Vimeo.

Not so new, but still nice to watch...



Behind the scenes:

"The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water is a short, animated film made by a collaboration of creative and dedicated volunteers at the Surfrider Foundation. Several local Surfrider Foundation chapters combined their talents and funds to create the film -- and then actor Zuleikha Robinson of Lost, generously agreed to narrate it.

The premise of the film is that the water cycle we all learned about in the 4th grade has been dramatically altered over time, leaving us with a broken system that wastes water and energy, pollutes our natural waterways, harms critical marine life, and poorly deals with flooding and other water management problems.

The film serves to take a holistic look at water management, highlight controversial problems, and suggest solutions that integrate multiple economic and environmental benefits. The intended audience includes entire communities: from homeowners and the general public, to public agencies and elected government officials."

Trailer:


Full movie: (soooo worth watching!!!)


more information: knowyourh2o.org

I found this in my RSS reader today and love it. So I'm just gonna repost Nathan Oldfields blogentry because everything is already said in it and I agree 100%. Tight camerawork and editing as well!


Scrapertown from California is a place. on Vimeo.

"This is pure inspiration.

This short reminds me of a favourite quote from Lauryn Hill: "That's what praising God is all about, it's doing your passion, fulfilling your passion. You know, that's how we are are thankful, that's how we say we appreciate the opportunity to be alive."

I'm always touched by people pursuing the things that stir their hearts. What else in this short life is so worthy?"

I just uploaded some older stuff on my website.
Two Servus TV opener done at the Red Bull Mediahouse last fall.

Screenshots:

Music Nuggets


Talk im Hangar-7

Learn here: riseaboveplastics.org
Animation done by Borders Perrin Norrander, who did already some other campaigns for Surfrider.

Screenshot of bpninc.com:

PLEASE, think about it!

What a great reel from the Impactist. 75 seconds of design, edited nicely to a great track. I really dig their style. Amazingly talented couple.

Screenshot

I just read on Phibs blog that Pete left Buck NY lately... I wish you all the best back in New Zealand man! Check out his amazing portfolio! So much talent there!!!
Although I was working for a very short time at Buck NY sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. I'm sure that's because of the nice people there. You are part of the family as of day one! Very good times... :)

Pete rockin.

Salem Aleikum!

I'm back from a over four-week travel through Morocco. This was an awesome experience. Lots of things happend. We had not the best luck with the waves but nevertheless got some great shots. Now loads of work is waiting for me. I'll put pictures on Flickr asap and start working on the movie postproduction soon. I'll keep you guys posted... This movie is going to be SICK!!!

Later!


Check out my first GoPro shots (video screengrabs) ever. This test was done in the very south (Westsahara). We surfed a spot inbetween two military bases. The locals told us later that nobody ever surfed here before...

Alright I just uploaded my little Panama flick "Passion driven". Yeah, it took me some time but it's online now. Here are some words about it:

I've learned a bunch of things doing this little project on my own. A real learning by doing experience :) This movie is full of compromises. You can also see it as my first camera test with a Panasonic GH-1 because I got the camera just a few days before leaving for Central America in July 09. I'd say 85% of the movie was filmed handheld without any kind of stabilisation-rig or even a LCD-viewfinder. I had a tripod at the beginning but it didn't make it to the end of the trip... So I can tell you that it was (and still is) pretty hard keeping things steady (and in focus) with those hybrid DSLRs without any stabilisation-support. But it was also fun as hell. Some (shaky) footage was supplied by my buddy Hari straight out of his little Pansonic TZ7. We had a cheesy waterhousing for the TZ7 with us but couldn't really use it because Hari dropped his camera on his third day on the trip. So the LCD was dead and he could never see what he was actually shooting. With that said the next drawback was that somebody stole my iPod where I stored the external & better recorded audio of the interviews. I think this sucks the most. So I had to go with the shitty sound by the little in-camera mic. Summarized that makes no in-water footage, lots of shaky footage and shitty sound. Not the best circumstances for making a surf-related flick. Whatever... as I said above I learned a lot :)
The same applies to postproduction. For the first time I did a 32bpc color-correction (linear color workflow) including the right color-management in After Effects. An arduous task for my four-year-old macbook pro. But for some reason I still have the Gamma issue (colors and picture looks flat) when exporting for the web, also with the x264 open source codec. This is a common problem since over two years on a Mac exporting h264 Quicktime videos. Let's hope Apple will fix this in future. So all I could do was trying to match the original colors by adjusting it later in the Quicktime player.


Passion driven, Panama 2009 from rawmeyn on Vimeo.

Due to the bad quality sound I uploaded a textfile of the interview here.
For better colors and playback I recommend downloading the source-file from Vimeo (you need to sign up a free membership) or just here.

All things considered I'm still happy with the result. It makes me wanna go on a trip again... so it's totally cool that we are leaving for Morocco in two days ;)
But this time more experienced, even more motivated, with more cameras and generally better equipped. Can't wait for that!!!

"I am a firm believer and that life is to be reached out and taken by the throat, shaken, and lived as intensely as you possibly can." - Russell Slough

Music in order of appearance:
"Feedback In The Field"
Plants And Animals

"We Are The People"
Empire Of The Sun

"Spendin' Days"
Japanese Motors

"Gravity"
Lusine

"The Boys Are Back In Town"
Thin Lizzy

"Bright Neon Payphone"
Cut Copy


UPDATE April 2010:
When I was in Morocco this March a sad message reached me. Russell died. But I sent him and his son Jay the video as promised a few days before. Later Michelle, Russells taughter send me following message: “My dad just passed the way this morning. Just to let you know he was VERY VERY HAPPY these days with the interview you did. My brother took the laptop to the hospital this last week and showed him the video. I cannot explained to you how excited he was. My brother is planning a memorial at the beach (We are throwing his ashes at El Palmar as he wanted). Thanks for everything.” Michelle Slough

Rest In Peace Russell.

Lots of stuff happened lately so there was not really time to update this blog. I'm hanging in Saalbach/Hinterglemm right now (again). Work and shred at its best! :)
We finally did it. Our Creative Collective aka. Bubbles & Bones is online now!!! Check out our brandnew website: www.bubblesbones.com and let me know what you think!
We are five motivated individuals who are sick of doing unsatisfied jobs and decided to do our own thing. Following our passion and dreams!
We also set up a blog blog.bubblesbones.com. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
A few days ago we went to ISPO in Munich and had a great time. Met lots of nice people and made some new friends. We also got some really interesting connections... (more on this soon).
In addition to that I booked a flight to Morocco and gonna stay there for more than a month in March! Can't wait for that! I already know that this trip is going to be awesome!!!
Surf and work - a dream! :) I'll keep you guys posted!!!

Bubbles & Bones Website Screenshot:

Sweet stop motion short films by Buck for the Sundance Film Festival.
"Grow Underground" is my favorite :) So beautiful!!!

Screenshot:

Nice flick which combines filming and motiondesign, nature and technology... I like!

NA# from Blake Fawley on Vimeo.

CANON Commercial - Freeze Tag from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.

And check also out Vimeo's 25 favorite videos of 2009. Nice stuff!

Damn! I was thinking about how to attach the GoPro to a skatedeck and now I found this:


Yeah this is done in post but it's totally cool! :)

Knife Show got kind of famous for their fresh snowboarding flicks, now they enter the skateboard world too...

Heavy Metal Knife Show from Mike Benson on Vimeo.

Knife Show is going to be filming some skating in 2009 and 2010. Here's a taste of what's to come: Jeffrey Garcia, Casey Wrightsman and Brent Chastang. Shot and edited by Mike Benson and Casey Wrightsman, with help from Chris Johnston. KNIFESHOWINC.COM

The bilingual french-english mograph blog Kromotion finally got relaunched.
Looks promising! Their free pdf magazine Kromag was always one of my favorites.