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Awesome video shot on a Bolex with 16mm film. I love this! Check out the artist for this video: NSR. Really interesting musician.

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I was just reading the write-up on Gizmodo.com about the Canon 1D Mark IV–due out any day now–and blacked out at my computer. This fabulous camera just came out and it’s the McDreamy and McSteamy of DSLR cameras right now (ya like that Grey’s Anatomy reference? LOL!). Just let me quote to you the the tech specs and I’ll stop talking.

The 1D Mark IV uses an APS-H-sized 16-megapixel sensor that’s “similar in size to a Super 35mm motion picture film frame” with a 1.3x crop factor (so not full-frame, booo) , and a normal ISO range of 100 to 12,800, with expanded going up to 102,400 ISO (like Nikon’s fresh D3s). The new 45-point autofocus system has 39 cross-type points and uses a new AI Servo II AF predictive focusing algorithm that’s supposed to be faster, which is handy, since it shoots in 10fps bursts. …

But, let’s talk about video, which Canon isn’t too shy of making the star of this camera: You get full manual exposure control, stereo mic input, and 1080p video at 24, 25 or 30fps; 720p and standard def at 50 or 60fps; and the samples, while obviously Canon-vetted, so far look seriously amazing (that’s a link to a full-res1080p stream of the video above, by Vincent Laforet).

There’s a new auto-lighting optimizer that automatically adjusts contrast and brightness in-camera that sounds sorta like Nikon’s Active D-Lighting. And hurray, a new white balance algorithm that’s better at low color temperatures, something that Nikon’s typically been better with in the past.

“Umm, David you quoted gibberish! Show me what this means” M’kay, no prob. Below are two examples of short films shot with this amazing camera. And let me just say that when I saw these videos, I died. Like someone had to come revive me!

If you have roughly $6000 (camera + warranty) sitting around and wouldn’t mind buying me one of these I’d be your best friend for life! Or loaning it to me for a day would make me the happiest person in the world. No lie! Oh, what’s that? You want me to do your dishes and clean your house for a lifetime? Done! …Anything that puts this lovely device in my hands.

All joking aside, this camera will certainly cause some serious change in the film and photography world besides what revolutionary change these new DSLRs have already brought about–particularly in the area of video for the web.

Okay, enjoy!

Nocturne

“Nocturne” and it’s creator Vincent Laforet have an interesting story because this video was restricted just two months ago from release by Canon. In a nutshell, “Vincent Laforet dropped his short film ‘Nocturne‘ on the scene almost immediately after the Canon 1D Mark IV was announced back in October. The video created a huge amount of buzz in the photography and film making communities in large part because it was shot under available light in the dead of night at ISO 6400. Then, inexplicably, Canon pulled the plug on the video.” (from photographybay.com and confirmed on Laforet’s blog)

Prague: 1DMKIV

Finally, here is the most fabulous work of Philip Bloom, shot on location in Prague as Christmas day was coming into bloom over there. This short film is absolutely gorgeous! …And the music, so incredible! I die!! *dead* It’s too good. philipbloom.co.uk

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So I know I just blogged about Diego a few days ago, but I happened across Diego Stocco’s tweet about his collaboration with Hans Zimmer! Wowza!! So cool!

In this video Hans and Diego are discussing different techniques and tools for Experibass. You should also check out the the photos and more details on this on Behance.com on this collaboration.

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I went to see the film “The September Issue” and I loved it and I had to share. I appreciate fashion. What can I say?

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Out of this world, crazy, awesome coolness!! That’s all I can say about the cleverness of this video.

Just watch!

I didn’t find any explanatory information on the film site, but I did find some info from an article at motiongrapher.com.

We shot the people spinning on turntables at 33.3rpm at high speed and then matched them to the turntables which were working with Serato. The film was made in collaboration with The Scratch Perverts, Foreign Beggars, Shlomo and Will Clarke with sound design by Will Cohen. Post production by The Mill London.

Among the musicians that were involved, I randomly picked a link and came to the website of the Foreign Beggars. First, the site design is phenomenal, and secondly I like their music. (It’s rap and hip-hop, but not like the mainstream garbage that is currently being lauded, praised and called sugar, when it’s nothing but mindless crap. Foreign Beggars’ brand of hip-hop is of the socially conscious kind that I think should matter and have a larger platform in today’s world.)

Finally, here are some stills from the production, and there are more of course at neurosonicsaudiomedical.com.

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This is a great stopmotion short that I heard about on Current TV and decided to check out. I watched it and it gave me a chuckle. If you share my sense of humor, then I think you might enjoy it as much as I did. Be sure to visit the link to the website (below) to see some pics of the making of the film.

Pigeon Pilfer is Michael Stevenson’s senior film from San Francisco State University. It was completed in four months with sixty pounds of clay, a digital SLR camera, and one tiny hot room. Check out PigeonPilfer.com or follow twitter.com/stopmotioner for more info.

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