“Smile, you’re on candid camera!”
Watch the video we made for Rituals’ Laughing Buddha collection and try not to laugh!
#whatmakesyousmile
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.
Sparkles and Wine
Amazing visual effect created by simply spinning a light source, transforming a woman’s face continuously. Hypnotizing…
The State of Distribution
Excellent short video on how, despite revolutions in technology, old models for funding and distributing media are holding creators back.
From the - highly anticipated - new online distribution platform for creators: VHX.tv
(via explore-blog)
Fireworks in reverse are awfully beautiful!
Julian Tay made this video from footage of Melbourne’s New Year’s Eve fireworks.
M83 ‘Wait’
This is what happens when the band M83 collaborates with French directorial team Fleur & Manu: a dazzling, hallucinatory music video - not sure what it all means, but we love staring at these mysterious images… Last part of a Sci-Fi Music Trilogy featuring some extensive homages to the science-fiction cinema greats. Can you spot them?
Hyundai Street League film
From our good friend and talented writer/director Robert Samuels (aka Superrocketman) in the UK, comes this beautiful and heartfelt film about how football - or soccer for you Americans - transforms the lives of disadvantaged young people.
Take a moment to be awed by a short film in which football meets poetry meets inspiration. Featuring poem and performance by one of the most respected spoken word artists in the UK: Polarbear.
Street League is a UK charity made possible by Hyundai.
The Secret Lives of Supercutters
Why people spend so many hours stitching footage into YouTube collages.
From Slate comes this terrific article on the makers of ‘supercuts’. Excerpt:
Since the beginning of time, humans have reshaped the creative works we encounter. Oral tradition invited storytellers to embellish existing narratives. Sheet music was powerless to prevent the parlor pianist’s reinterpretation. In the ’70s and ’80s, turntable jockeys led a sampling explosion. And today, of course, we have the “supercut.”
As YouTube crawlers well know, the supercut strings together rapid-fire, out-of-context movie or TV scenes to create a sort of video essay. What motivates the supercutter to slog through hours of footage to compile these minute observations? And what distinguishes the masters of the form?
Read the full article, with loads of inspiring anecdotes and examples.
I, Pencil – lovely little film about how everything is connected. Because, as Charles Eames famously noted, “Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
The 4th edition of TEDxAmsterdam is taking place at the Stadsschouwburg on November 30th, 2012. This years’ theme – human nature – refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that humans tend to have naturally. Visit tedxamsterdam.com on 30 November 2012 and watch the live stream there or join one of many viewing parties.
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