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HOLI by VARIABLE

THAT WAS BREATHTAKING !!

Production Company: Variable - WeAreVariable.com

Creative: Variable

Post Production/Editorial: The Mill - TheMill.com

Directors/Cinematographers: Jonathan Bregel & Khalid Mohtaseb @ Variable

Executive Producers: John Rule & Mike Sutton (@MNS1974)

Producer: Tyler Ginter @ Variable

Line Producer: Viraj Velinker 

Phantom Tech: Nick Midwig

The Mill: New York City

Post Production Producers: Dee Allen & Alex Maxwell

Editor: Ryan McKenna 

Colourist: Sal Malfitano

Original Score/Sound Design: Salomon Ligthelm - ligthelm.tv

Special thanks to the risk takers who helped make this job possible:

Rule Boston Camera - for trusting us with their Phantom Flex - Rule.com

Angenieux - for trusting us with their prototype glass - Angenieux.com

Ghost Drummer

is a multidisciplinary project that explores graphic qualities in process of playing on a drum kit. Besides being a musician, drummer when playing is unconsciously engaged in an elaborate choreography. The drum sticks are the extensions of drummer’s hands like a brush is an extension of the painter’s hand. Motion-captured movements become a visual map over a time revealing fragile rhythm structures and invisible notations behind energetic instrumental solo. ‘Portrait of a Ghost Drummer’ expands the understanding of drummers activity from purely auditory experience to spontaneous visual performance. From technical point of view motion trajectory was captured on Vicon MX system and raw CSV files were translated into visual language in 3d environment Cinema4D. My self-developed technique is inspired by areas such as drumming notation, action painting, choreography, japanese calligraphy and 3d digital drawing. Most important for me is that it gives me true feeling that I am my drawing.

“When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”

— Jackson Pollock, My Painting, 1956 (source: wikipedia)

I worked on this animation during my recent artistic residency at Culture Lab in Newcastle. I would like to thank Atau Tanaka, Pussykrew, David Green & all Culture Lab team.

(Source: monotask)

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus discovers a man without limbs being exploited at a carnival sideshow, but after an intriguing encounter with the showman he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed.

Directed by: Joshua Weigel; 

Written by: Joshua Weigel & Rebekah Weigel; 

Produced by: Joshua Weigel, Rebekah Weigel & Angie Alvarez; 

Starring: Eduardo Verastegui (Bella, Chasing Papi), Nick Vujicic (Life Without Limbs) & Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Fantastic Four - Rise of the Silver Surfer, Hellboy)

Equipment: RED EPIC, Phantom Flex, Phantom Gold, SmallHD DP6 & DP4

For the past few years, SnapRoll Media has been at the forefront of remotely controlled aerial camera systems. Like most, hey started out using DSLR cameras to record video, but it wasn’t long before the image quality wasn’t up to their standards. they began designing and building larger airframes to carry the weight of the cameras they and their clients wanted to use.

Their hard work paid off. they were the first to successfully carry the RED ONE digital cinema camera safely and smoothly. Then, they added Vision Research’s Phantom Flex and Phantom Gold high speed cameras to their arsenal. Furthermore, they had the opportunity to be the first in the world to successfully fly the new RED EPIC on their proven remote controlled aerial system thanks to Jarred Land and Jim Jannard.

They are constantly researching, developing, and fine tuning their helicopters to carry larger cameras with maximum stability. The greatest reward is seeing their clients’ faces when they get the shot that no crane, cable cam, or full size helicopter was able to capture. 2012 will be full of incredible projects along with further R&D on bigger and better remotely controlled (RPV) aerial camera systems. Stay tuned!

Edited By: Chris Murphy, Helio Collective (heliocollective.com) 

Music By: Awolnation - Sail 

Portrait watercolor - Speed painting (by agnescecile)

The Song of Sparrow_Majid Majidi

The story of an Iranian ostrich farmer who, in an effort to aid his hearing impaired daughter, turns to a different, character changing line of work.

When the farmer focuses on replacing his daughter’s hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

A young man throws himself from an apartment building. What’s lead him to this desperate point? Beautiful and mysterious women, that’s what. Directors Mary Clerté and Edouard Bertrand have lined up a whole series of them in “Just a Song”, the new video from French band Pony Pony Run Run.

Playing for Change is a multimedia effort to unite musicians and vocalists from diverse parts of the globe while seeking to immerse audiences in a movement to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music. Using mobile audio/video units, technicians traveled the world, recording local musicians outdoors in towns and cities worldwide. In addition, musicians from all over the world are now brought together to perform benefit concerts that build music and art schools in communities in need. The special premieres August 1 and airs throughout August 2009 on most PBS stations. Check local listings for dates and times in your area at pbs.org. You can help PBS continue to offer everyone — from every walk of life — the opportunity to experience amazing performances and explore new ideas through television and online content. To donate, please visit http://www.pbs.org/support

Gimme Shelter

The song “Gimme Shelter” expresses the urgency we all face to unite together as a planet, and offers us wisdom with the words “War, children, it’s just a shot away… Love, sister, it’s just a kiss away.”  It really is that simple.

This track is the latest song from our new album, PFC 2: Songs Around the World.  You can order your copy here.

Experience Human Flight with the Melbourne Skydive Centre.

melbourneskydivecentre.com.au/​

In February 2011, the five times world champions Fred Fugen and Vince Reffett from Soul Flyers were invited to Melbourne to provide advanced 3D coaching to some of Australia’s leading Skydive athlete talent.

Shot on a GoPro

Produced: “Betty Wants In”

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Music: “She is” - Salieri Music Inc

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Introducing HTC Sensation, a multimedia superphone — featuring premium unibody aluminum design with true widescreen qHD display, rich high-fidelity audio, advanced entertainment capabilities with HTC Watch, full HD video recording, instant capture camera and an immersive HTC Sense experience that sets a new multimedia high for smartphones.

Concept:

HTC Sensation is more than just a normal phone. And instead of showing the phone first and then what you can do we descide to go the opposite way with reverse story telling. We show first one of the key features like the great audio experience. We show how the HTC is influencing this world. Until we see an explosion of beautiness and a wonderful soundsculpture. Untill we see the ultimate sound sculpture the HTC sensation

The liquid itself symbolize the different multimedia faces of this phone. Its flexible enough to take every shape that you need according to your demands.

Credits:

Studio: 1stAveMachine
Director: Roman Ruetten
Producer: Monique Robertson
Designer: Roman Ruetten
Lead Compositor: Jeremiah Morehead 
Compositor: John Michael Buban
3D Lead: Roman Ruetten, Marc E. Florestant
3D Artists: Shane O’hara, Thomas Maine
Realflow Artist: Taras Hrabowsky
Editor: Nathan Scholtens
Storyboard Artist: Chris Butzer
Sound design: Benjamin Bethurum

My Portrait Study