Toy Story - Into Darkness

Star Trek : Into Darkness & Toy Story Mashup.
Well done.

Better in Slow Motion

A recurring theme.

Ignite. The Bridge. The Ramp. Orange.

An overworked concept? Maybe. But the funniest bits are the most true.

An Unexpected Briefing

I used to live and work in New Zealand, so I have flown Air New Zealand a number of times.
Once again, Air NZ (and Sir Peter Jackson, let's be fair) have created one of the two best safety briefing videos ever.
If I wasn't sitting with my seat upright, seatbelt buckled and tray table stowed, I'd be on the edge of my seat for this.

Star Wars Flashmob

As I have noted before, there are few things I like better than flash mob videos, or Star Wars.

Put them together = awesome.  Staged, but awesome.  Best score ever.

Toronto Timelapse

City Rising - by Tom Ryaboi.  My love of Toronto, compressed into 4 minutes.




(Apparently not everything has to be slowed down to be more awesome, speeding it up works too.)

SlowMo Summer

Yet further proof (from a growing case) that there's nothing better than everything slowed down.  Preferably to music.
And that I need a Phantom Flex.



(why don't my home movies look like this?)

(instead of this)

What the Hunger Games Might Have Been

I really enjoyed the Hunger Games - I loved the books (okay, book) but here's Director Kevin Tancharoen's pitch when he was applying to direct, cut from some other work one might recognize.  Nice, dark, violent ... 

Olympics = Most Over-the-top Inspiring Ads

Every two years, we get a deluge of the most over-the-top inspirational ads.  This one isn't a tear-jerker (like the P&G ad) but it's awesome.


Meet the Superhumans from STITCH on Vimeo.

Awesome.

... Also in the category of over-the-top (which describes pretty much anything Muse does ...) :

Pumped for the Olympics?

I don't give that much thought to the Olympics.  And Muse is over-the-top.  Put them together, and it's a killer pump up video ... fast motion, slow motion, and melodramatic music.
Yes!
If only the Olympics were even partially this awesome.

Loooooong Steadicam Shot From Hugo

I have a camera stabilizing vest. It's really heavy.  This great little video shows what goes into making a Steadicam shot - more than just waking around pointing your really (really!) heavy cinema (3D) camera at the action.  I feel the wheeze from the camera operator at the end.

Alan Rickman Making Tea

Further proof (like we needed further proof) that everything is more dramatic in slow motion.  Legendary British actor Alan Rickman making tea, for example.

This is why I love the internet.

This makes it all worth it.

Attack of the Spinning Beach Balls of Death

As a Mac person, I am well acquainted with the "Spinning Beach Ball of Death",  but this TED talk puts it in a whole new light.

We Finally Get A Decent Canadian Superbowl Ad

... and it's about hockey.
And I'm not a hockey player, but I am Canadian and even though I've never officially played the game, the game is somehow wrapped up in our national identity.  I respect Budweiser for not over beer-ifying the commercial; instead, their brand piggybacks on the emotion - real emotion from some real guys playing ...well, beer league hockey.

1000 Frames. PER SECOND.

Proof that just about everything is better slowed down with music. But the Phantom camera shoots at 1000 frames per second ... I used to be pretty happy with 60 fps and then fake it with a Twixtor plugin.
I'm ruined.

Star Wars : Uncut

Star Wars - re-created by fans, 15-seconds at a time.

Each 15-second segment was produced by a different group of filmmakers using their own equipment, and the result is a classic story retold by its fans, for its fans. You can feel the love.

Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.