I love a little time lapse photography/videography. I have been watching Imogen Heap in regards to her concert and concept film, Love the Earth, that was broadcast live on November 5th, 2010 in London using footage from people all over of their takes on nature. Here is where she talks about the inspiration for making the film "project" and here is the website, which seems a bit defunct at the moment as you can't see the film or watch more of the event from the Royal Albert Hall. I watched a few of the YouTube clips of the event too but since I didn't see the piece, I don't really know how to react except to say that I REALLY like the concept of a musician and a filmmaker working together to bring a group of people together. So interesting and fresh. I loved this concept when I learned about Sufjan Stevens' film, BQE, but since I didn't see that either, except for a few short clips, I don't really know how to judge as I have never seen the final product. Basically, the concept is golden, let's just hope we can see both projects online soon. I'll keep looking.......
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Hermes Fingerskate
Xiomara, one of my students at CUNY Hostos in the South Bronx, sent me this link. I like this a lot, have seen some of the fingerboard stuff before and discovered the Hermes site which was the best thing I gained from watching the video.
They are doing some interesting things on their site so check it out. Couldn't embed the links here so they want you to trip around and explore on your own.
Liked the "inside my grandmother Paulette's wardrobe", part of the story-time with Colombe series. "My sweetheart has exactly the same tie as you" is another that looked cool and made me want to watch more. The way they are encoding and displaying their video is sumptious. Love the quality and simple shots. I blogged about this back in December 2009 focusing on a Japanese artist, Masashi Kawamura as he did an ad for HTC and it was really well done.
Besides that, I started clicking around YouTube and found a number of videos about the fingerboard competitions and was a little freaked out the energy spent on a set up like in this video. Wow. I hope my kids are riding the board with their bodies and not their fingers as it seems pretty insane........