One year ago, we did a post on our collaboration with choreographer David Fernandez on his performance “White Shirt, Black Pants, Black Tie”, shot using our Sony EX-1-R HD cameras. This year we shot the same concept, but using David’s XXS dancers, aged 9-12 years old, titled “White Shirt, Black Pants, Black Tie XXS”. To sum up my extreme enthusiasm: I was so impressed by these girls, it honestly made me want to sign up for classical dance classes.

Not only was the performance an excellent demonstration of David’s ability to work with professional dancers and aspiring young adults, but the preparation for the shoot was an opportunity for us learn a great amount about the growth of the HD camera market within the last year or so. By using two Canon 5D Mark 2 cameras alongside one of our EX-1-R’s, our opinions on DSLR video recording has done a complete 360. With the simple function and large array of Canon lenses to pick from, I can easily say that I’m in love.

Video clips of the performance coming soon!

the new barbieblog.com

who says that we don’t access our inner child here at the visual mercenary group? well we do, and this past month we got to have fun while helping our pals at attention pr launch the new barbie blog for their client mattel. since we shot the ‘catch me if you ken‘ promo during fashion week  last year for attention and mattel, we think it was cool that we got to spin it around to the barbie side this time.

so if you grew up playing with barbie and ken or just want to keep up to date with what is going on in the world of barbie - they’re back together as a couple btw - the blog is a great site to visit. there are also some cool woman-centric articles to help empower our daughters. and just for the record: no, we did not experience pink overload while working on this project