Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.
I’m fully embracing my (relatively new) obsession with both tilt shift photography and music videos, and I’ve just stumbled across a really delightful combination of the two (via BoingBoing): Here’s a lovely tilt-shift music video for the band Codebreaker, featuring vocalist Kathy Diamond. The piece was shot, directed, and edited by Erik West, who says, “None of the snow in this piece is simulated. I went out and show on the snowiest days of winter. The last scenes in the video were shot during a blizzard. This was shot on a Canon Powershot SD630 Point & Shoot. Additional footage was shot on a Sony EX1 by Jeff Thomas. Posted using Final Cut, Photoshop, Motion and Color.” (via Aaron Wahle via Matt Kirsch)
the visual mercenary group recently shot two spots for cult 360’s client, meda pharmaceuticals. the two shots resulted in a set of test spots that will go into testing to see which one will become broadcast ready commercials. we had done a lot of web based green screen MPA on their Kelly Awards site over the past couple of years so we were a perfect match.
we did a pretty cool shoot where we used the AJA i/o card and captured HD video from the sony EX-1 directly into a macbook pro. it was seamless and awesome! currently we’ve finished the spots and they’re in focus group testing. when results are released in the next two weeks, we’ll post the videos.
I’m officially obsessed with Wordle. The concept is simple - paste in a bunch of text (the example above is the Gettysburg Address) and Wordle spits out a pretty word cloud with emphasis determined by the frequency of words in the text. Play around with the font, color, and layout, and turn your words into works of art.
