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Birds (1 of 4 short films) Stunning video for Anouk’s new...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:26:00 +0200

Birds (1 of 4 short films)

Stunning video for Anouk’s new song ‘Birds’ (singing in the Eurovision Song Contest final this Saturday).

Directed by one of our favorite Dutch directors: Dana Nechushtan. Watch the entire series of beautiful, sad, lovely films here: Four short films by Anouk - Sad Singalong Songs

Great use of storytelling in this music video miniseries, intermingling and connecting characters, locations and situations, to create a story of larger scale.

Pets and their owners… A hilarious mashup of sorts. Are pets...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:00 +0200

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Pets and their owners…

A hilarious mashup of sorts. Are pets like their owners, or is it the other way around? :-)

@ZachDriftwood’s #Petheadz

Some say pets look like their owners, but one Canadian photographer has taken it to a new and creative extreme. In his series, #petheadz, Zachary Rose (@zachdriftwood) takes DSLR portraits of people’s pets and mashes them up with portraits of their owners by cleverly holding the camera in the foreground.

The series started as an exercise in creativity with his two roommates but quickly caught on. To date, Zach has taken 18 #petheadz portraits of people all over Toronto. (His mom even posed for a photo with her German shepherd.) The project is still on-going with a lengthy wait-list, and Zach is excited to continue meeting people—and pets—around the city as he keeps shooting.

Quite astonishing… Magic Lantern Allows Canon 5D...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:01:00 +0200

Quite astonishing…

Magic Lantern Allows Canon 5D Filmmakers to Shoot Raw Continuously

Osscilate An unforgettable experimental animation by Daniel...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:51:39 +0200

Osscilate

An unforgettable experimental animation by Daniel Sierra for his master thesis at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says that he aims to

“visualise patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerising audiovisual experience in which sight and sound work in unison to capture the viewer’s attention.”

Go full screen and turn up the volume for an experience definitely not to be missed!

Understand Music This experimental animation is about the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:16:44 +0200

Understand Music

This experimental animation is about the attempt to understand all the parts and bits of the complexity of music.

GIF: A short history.

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:01:20 +0200

GIF: A short history.

The History of Typography - Animated Short A paper-letter...

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:31:52 +0200

The History of Typography - Animated Short

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography: 291 paper letters and 2454 photographs. Enjoy.

Digitized magazine subscriptions for business waiting...

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:01:00 +0200

Digitized magazine subscriptions for business waiting rooms

We’ve already seen The Silent History iPad novel use location detection to unlock extra content as part of its engagement with readers. Now Foli is using the same technology to bring waiting room literature up to date by enabling businesses to offer customers a selection of digital magazines that only becomes accessible at their physical location.

A Boy and His Atom To explore the limits of filmmaking, IBM...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:22:46 +0200

A Boy and His Atom

To explore the limits of filmmaking, IBM scientists create the world’s smallest movie, made by moving actual atoms frame by frame with IBM’s scanning tunneling microscope.

How far we’ve come in the half-century since Disney’s Our Friend the Atom.

10 tips from the pros for a successful start up

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:45:00 +0200

10 tips from the pros for a successful start up:

Last week, Vertov’s creative director Martijn visited the digital conference NEXT Berlin and explored the local start up scene. Based on several talks on stage and inspiring conversations behind the scenes, he wrote an article for the Dutch platform Frankwatching summarising ten helpful tips for a successful start up from the pros.

Draw a Stickman Not everyone can draw like Picasso, but everyone...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:14:00 +0200

Draw a Stickman

Not everyone can draw like Picasso, but everyone can draw a stickman. In the app called Stickman, that is all you need to be able to do. The story consists of a stickman that must battle a dragon to get a present and save two friends stuck on a tree without waking up a raging tiger. The story keeps you guessing what will happen next, yet at the same time involved in the process.

What makes the story beautiful is the fact that it is only successful in an electronic format. A stickman that is drawn by the reader-player and moves on its own would never work in print for obvious reasons. While the web format gives the sense that the user is creating a life and making a difference in the trajectory of the story. Unlike reading a novel, which tends to be a passive activity, Draw a Stickman gives the readers agency and a deeper sense of involvement.

Findery: Make Places Come Alive Findery helps people document...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:37:04 +0200

Findery: Make Places Come Alive

Findery helps people document places they care about, share those memories and discover new places through others’ stories. This is not the geo-tagging of Facebook and Instagram, but a new angle on place-based social media with a clear emphasis on storytelling.

Users can create “sets” of notes centered around the same topic or theme, like childhood memories or historical landmarks. Notes in sets can include links to each other, creating chronologies, or they can be placed on the map at random. Users can tag one another in posts and can set notes to be discoverable by anyone, discoverable by specific others or private.

The website currently has a small — but active — user community where members can recognize each other by their profile pictures on the map. You can scan for notes left by @donald, Findery team member Donald Tetto, by seeking the image of a man in a giraffe mask.

Findery’s intimate community is further developed by the use of tags. “Helpmefindery” is a new tag, inspired by the success of one poster’s call for help in identifying the setting of an old photo of his grandfather — within a half hour of his posting, another user had determined the spot to be since-demolished Bernstein’s Fish Grotto in San Francisco. The team promotes tags for “findery challenges,” invitations for users to post notes about their first kisses, farthest travel destinations or brushes with the law.

For those more interested in exploring others’ notes than posting their own, the Findery team spotlights compelling sets and users — such as @The Sock Project’s documentation of donating socks to the homeless and @Missed’s descriptions of lost opportunities with attractive strangers.

Nominated for a 2013 SABRE Award for Oxfam Novib...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:21:00 +0200

Nominated for a 2013 SABRE Award for Oxfam Novib campaign!

Vertov together with sister agency Coebergh Communicatie & PR have been nominated for the Oxfam Novib ‘Pakt Uit’ campaign in the Benelux category of the 2013 EMEA SABRE AWARDS.

With the campaign ‘Give a Goat as a Present’ for client Oxfam Novib, people were made aware of the possibility to give a present that really makes a difference. Aside from three online videos with singer Ben Saunders, writerKluun en socialite Marijke Helwegen, the campaign was also supported by a television commercial with Holland’s Next Top Models and television personality Irene van de Laar.

The Sabre Awards will be given out May 30 in Barcelona. The videos of the campaign are available here.

Sparkles and Wine Amazing visual effect created by simply...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:30:49 +0200

Sparkles and Wine

Amazing visual effect created by simply spinning a light source, transforming a woman’s face continuously. Hypnotizing…

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:25:58 +0200

A Duck has an Adventure Simple. Engaging. Yellow. A Duck Has an...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:01:15 +0200

A Duck has an Adventure

Simple. Engaging. Yellow. A Duck Has an Adventure is a fun digital storytelling project created by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. Combining various elements of digital media, Goodbrey calls it “both a game and a story, although it probably leans a little more in the direction of story.”

Accompany the duck on his adventure here.

cinephilearchive: An inspirational collection of “back to the...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:21:37 +0200

cinephilearchive:

An inspirational collection of “back to the camera” shots. The character stands center frame (most of the time), looking out at some epic landscape.

The impact of Smart Glasses on Digital Storytelling According to...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:33 +0200

The impact of Smart Glasses on Digital Storytelling

According to CEO of APX-labs Brian Hallard Smart Glasses severely impact the way we approach and practice digital storytelling. In a conversation with the Huffington Post’s Brian Smith, Hallard is focused on bringing smart glasses to life, yet remains realistic about its entry into the digital scene.

“Glasses are a very personal device - they ‘intrude’ on your visual experience in an unparalleled way. This amplifies their impact, both good and bad. So, they raise the game for content providers, brands and those third parties looking to make a connection in some way with a person.

Secondly, smart glasses enable a whole range of scenarios that were impossible before. They are real-time and in-context — creating unique moments for engagement that no other device can deliver. Content can be highly personalized as TV/movie content publishers and marketers are able to engage individuals through their glasses based upon preferences as they are viewing digital media (or even non-digital media that has a “hook” into the virtual world)”.

For the whole conversation between Hallard & Smith, please click here.

The SoLoMo Manifesto Social. Local. Mobile. These are the...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:44:08 +0200

The SoLoMo Manifesto

Social. Local. Mobile. These are the sweeping trends thriving in marketing today and for the foreseeable future. In terms of media consumption, they have come to dominate consumer attention. In terms of targeting and communication, they have opened dynamic new channels. In terms of data and measurement, they are nothing short of revolutionary. And in terms of technology, they are disrupting entire industries.

While each is a powerful force unto itself, the focus of the SoLoMo Manifesto is on their nexus.

An interesting read that can be downloaded for free here.

Star Trek: Literally into the darkness The studio behind...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:37:23 +0100

Star Trek: Literally into the darkness

The studio behind the Star Trek Into Darkness took the title quite literal this time around when executing promotional activities for the upcoming film. They commissioned the flying of a giant, glowing Starfleet insignia in the London night sky. Compromised of 30 LED-illuminatied quadrotors, the 308-foot-tall sign rotated in place 118 feet above ground, before dimming its lights alongside those of Tower Bridge and Big Ben in recognition of the WWF’s Earth Hour conservation effort.