Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Friday, 28 August 2009
Monday, 6 July 2009
J.J Abrams's Mystery Box
J.J Abrams des a good talk on filmamkeing and his philosphy on it, a very good talk from director of Star Trek and one of the creators of lost.
From website called Ted that features Many brilliant talks on many subjects from people all around the world.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html
From website called Ted that features Many brilliant talks on many subjects from people all around the world.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
New Post on James Brown and Me, Lance Acord
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Late Post, More Photos
Hey I,ve been quite busy actually, but definitly wanted to get more photographers down that i have seen and this guy is pretty good, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, He does alot of aerial and natural life shots which i like, a very distictive style. here is a website that has some pretyy good photographs.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/efa_10_06/01_s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html&h=618&w=990&sz=428&tbnid=dw3fXaErCcABuM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3DYann%2BArthus-Bertrand&hl=en&usg=__0z9DyATLWvyb5LSMCwXdBhq2QuM=&ei=ukNBSsPrLIuZjAe1vbCcCQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
This is Yanns site itself and is very good, he's recently done a movie called Home.
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/efa_10_06/01_s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html&h=618&w=990&sz=428&tbnid=dw3fXaErCcABuM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3DYann%2BArthus-Bertrand&hl=en&usg=__0z9DyATLWvyb5LSMCwXdBhq2QuM=&ei=ukNBSsPrLIuZjAe1vbCcCQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
This is Yanns site itself and is very good, he's recently done a movie called Home.
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Interesting Special effect short film some physics students did in Netherlands
Interesting to try some like this out on park hill flats around in a suburb somewhere, also made me think about fan content, pretty good stuff sometimes, adding a story or collection of bits that people enjoy, Transmedia story telling i think it called, Anyway thought someone could or should do a redux copy the film and add more effects or narrative to the piece.
By Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels
http://motionographer.com/2009/05/13/whats-in-the-box/
Story from motionographer
By Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels
http://motionographer.com/2009/05/13/whats-in-the-box/
Story from motionographer
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Robert Capa is another war photographer, who i think worked for life but landed on D-day with troops and took pictures, unfortunatly alot of them were lost in a development accident, but there about 10 left.
He used on the landing, 5o mm lenses that have definite focus, make things more blury in background and a Contax II, i also think some 50mm lenses have good aperture settings so you can get good footage in low or diffused lights settings
Friday, 8 May 2009
Any times a person makes a film he is creating an argument or that what i read from john burgers book, i might have to reread this chapter when i get home.
These are some pics from English photographer Larry Burrows, who went to vietnam and embedded with some us marines there, his photos are different from the films i have seen representing this war, Apocolypes now, platoon, Born on the fourth of july, Deer hunter, it seems more documentary and clear without filters or focus, a certain kinda of truth which is different from the films??? maybe this is where the difference between film and picture becomes interesting, as I learnt from the lecture series, and film tells a narrative but a picture doesn't explicably, we have to film in the before and afters, and even with subtle pictures, there can always be an argument the photographer is presenting with us, this is where "context" comes in handy
These are some pics from English photographer Larry Burrows, who went to vietnam and embedded with some us marines there, his photos are different from the films i have seen representing this war, Apocolypes now, platoon, Born on the fourth of july, Deer hunter, it seems more documentary and clear without filters or focus, a certain kinda of truth which is different from the films??? maybe this is where the difference between film and picture becomes interesting, as I learnt from the lecture series, and film tells a narrative but a picture doesn't explicably, we have to film in the before and afters, and even with subtle pictures, there can always be an argument the photographer is presenting with us, this is where "context" comes in handy
Kodachrome Example from wikipedia
Photos
These are some photos by Life Photographer Carl Mydans in 1940 in the Pacific ocean, i like the vividness of the photos, that are a stark contrast to what you see in 1940's era war photography, it seem like he might of used a Reversal film stock, Eastman kodachrome???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
here some pics anyways
WorkBook Photos
I really want to put more photos in my workbook, but didn't want to lose quality and use up ink and paper, So i thought i create this blog to add pictures for you to see and one's I like.
this great archive by blog and life has a lot of photo you can skim through from some very interesting Photographers. I'll put on some that i like, and the link to the site
here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
this great archive by blog and life has a lot of photo you can skim through from some very interesting Photographers. I'll put on some that i like, and the link to the site
here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Lichtfaktor
Lickfactor, Always a good website for light photography
http://www.lichtfaktor.eu/blog/?page_id=4
this link give some tips on how to do it. and they have a great collection of vids and pics
http://www.lichtfaktor.eu/blog/?page_id=4
this link give some tips on how to do it. and they have a great collection of vids and pics
I was looking on Motionographer and found an interesting quick post about a time lapse video a man made.
Done By Andrew Curtis
with interesting panning and photos maybe done on this camera the Nikon D80 which I'm not sure we have got at university, I have done some timelapse photography before and would really like to go at a moving image timelapse project.
Done By Andrew Curtis
with interesting panning and photos maybe done on this camera the Nikon D80 which I'm not sure we have got at university, I have done some timelapse photography before and would really like to go at a moving image timelapse project.
Cinco De Mayo Carnival from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.
Driving Timelapse 2.0 from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.
Links that i like!
http://motionographer.com/ Good Motion and animation stuff
http://drawn.ca/ Drawing and animation
http://www.designflavr.com/ Designs from the internet, Flash, photoshop illustrator etc
http://www.indymogul.com/ Nice website about Filmmaking
http://usoproject.blogspot.com/ Random sound blog i found that's pretty good
there be plenty more and hopefully feature links on here, to remind myself and anyone who comes on here.
http://drawn.ca/ Drawing and animation
http://www.designflavr.com/ Designs from the internet, Flash, photoshop illustrator etc
http://www.indymogul.com/ Nice website about Filmmaking
http://usoproject.blogspot.com/ Random sound blog i found that's pretty good
there be plenty more and hopefully feature links on here, to remind myself and anyone who comes on here.
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Hello
Hey this is my new blog, about things that i find, that i like that i want to keep, pictures, films, reviews, games, art, motion graphics etc, hopefully get some techniques and stuff in there. and i will see what i get in a years time see if i have anything interesting.
Alexander Unwin
Alexander Unwin
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