Concept advertisement video, The Birth

is a delightfully charming concept advertisement video from shootmefashion, with pleasantly  smooth and melancholic soundtrack 'Air On A G String' by J.S. Bach.

The video was produced by Ezel Domianic create and directed by Ozer with a full retinue of  cast and crew that speaks of of a fully decked out cinematic photography advertising film company.

Manhattan in Motion, a cool cityscape time lapse video

is a rivetingly entertaining cityscape time lapse of cinematic proportions and quality by Mindrelic. With breathtaking precision the camera glides the perspectives and deep cavernous gorges of Manhattan's architectural sky scrapers. The smooth camera action and speedy flashing traffic flows generate a profoundly free flying like transversal swim around and among the towers of New York City.

Mindrelic  (aka Josh Owens) created this delightful short video from over an hours worth of sequences he captured whilst spending a month of sponsored hotel hopping in Manhattan.

The aptly entitled music track he chose to accompany his video, Lights Dim from New York city based group The American Dollar sublimates a reflective appreciative mood of Mindrelic's illustrious time lapse.



If you were surprised by an occasional, as some might think, seemingly impossibly long camera glides out over balconies then check out the 6 foot Dynamic Perception dolly rig he used. Albeit, not the only piece of sophisticated technology, together with his Canon 5D & 7D cameras he also used a Little Bramper.

"Little Bramper is an intervalometer with some unusual and advanced capabilities.  Most significantly, by using the camera’s Bulb mode it allows you to vary the exposure smoothly during a time-lapse session."

Time Lapse of the Seattle Space Needle

is a superbly cool time lapse cinematic video, by Filmmaker, Director and teacher Phillip Bloom, shot from a 17th floor room of the Warwick Hotel aerially taking in the Seattle Space Needle tower and surrounding panoramic airspace.

He created this remarkably clever piece of cinematic media art from 150, 000 photo stills and slickly achieved his finished entertaining piece with astonishing sensitivity to motion, story, light and drama selectively adding a musical work of James Newton Howard's from The Happening.



Among the array of equipment he used, was the Canon 5DmkII, T2i, T3i and Panasonic GH2 cameras, and in order to block out reflections from windows, he used the Delkin lensskirt suction camera mount, plus the whole work was color corrected with Magic Bullet software.

Should you be feeling inspired, Phillip succinctly guide's your appreciation of his work in a 21 minute Soundcloud commentary of it, here.

The River: atmospherically riveting short film

Is an emotively entertaining short piece of superb stop-motion animation that firmly cements a new genre of film making into the mainstream of media art; created with the geeky favored toy box of Lego bricks, together with some cleverly orchestrated handmade visual and software effects.

Although captured on a Nikon D40x and authored in Final Cut Pro, the technical skill used to display large amounts of artwork is in the use value of treating Legos like clay.

The River won the best cinematography category of the bricks in motion 2009 star competition in which Nikolas Jaegar provides us with an alluring example of what can be achieved using technically astute Diy effects.

The underlying theme bears some semblance of a story, requisite with the history of the American Civil War, however bear in mind though The River has got an existential kick to it.

"A lot of people have asked me about the plot. I'll say that some parts are more clear than others, and that's really my intention. I don't want it to be a film where you reach the ending and go "oh, THAT's what was going on", not at all."



Both the film and music is by Nikolas Jaeger, with voices from Leonardo Liccini, Erik Wiedenmann and David Wardell, and Civil War sound effects provided by Phil Sepulveda.

Bad Things That Could Happen by This Is It

is an entertaining little video with amazing set design using giant props made out of cardboard about bad things that could happen.

"The film is self explanatory made up of seven short scenes. Playing with scale and bringing objects to life, the film creates a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd."



This Is It, is a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers, who are: Andy Baker, Laura Bird, Rose Blake, Daniel Britt, Chan An Gee, Michael Knight, Nicos Livesey, Tom McCaughan, Azusa Nakagawa, Joseph Pelling and Becky Sloan

Credits of the work
Cinematography - Hugo Donkin
Photography - Thomas Bolwell
Sound Design - Andrew Kinnear
Music - Andrew Kinnear & Joseph Pelling
Make Up - Elizabeth Barlow

Apart from the cool constructive effort of this sweet little film, I'm intrigued as to know when a film is not a video ? Nevertheless, I for one have a propensity here in this blog to view this kind of work as nothing short of a mighty fine piece of Media Art !

Inception inspired Time Lapse video montage

I find this video by Mike Flores cinematica-lly stunning. Gifted by the dramatic use of astronomical and landscape stock imagery, consistently panning us out of the frame, but maintaining our momentum with the musical crescendo of Hans Zimmer's soundtrack from Inception, (the) "Dream is collapsing".



One may feel confused by the inclusion of the off road vehicles towards the end of the video, but after re-watching the video a few more times, I now feel that without that unexpected element, the video may more than likely, stand out among the many - time lapse videos.

Lostmachinima's Short Film: Retaliation

'War does not determine who is right - only who is left.'

Although, I must confess I am not an action gamer this weirdly entertaining animation rattled my sox. It cleverly juxtaposes Telepopmusik's song, Yesterday Was A Lie with a computer graphics cinematic depth of field effect of excerpts from the Halo 3 game.

Film maker, Lostmachinima used a Blackmagic Intensity Pro HD Capture Card, edited using Sony Vegas 9 Pro using Visuals and Color Correction, Adobe After Effects CS4 and 'Magic Bullet Looks'.

Go here to see more cool work by this clever media artist.

Virtual band, Gorillaz with Stylo

is an entertaining, short, action packed tragic comedy thriller about a team of bad ass gorilla stooges speeding down the road. This exceptionally cool cinematic graphics video was created by Mario Ucci and features special un-invited guest Bruce Willis.

Gorillaz is a virtual band founded by Damon Albarn from Blur in 1998, with comic book artist Jamie Hewlett designing and drawing the band. They can be found in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Most Successful Virtual Band".  Stylo is their single from their recently released Plastic Beach album. Go here to read a review about them and their new album.

OK Go: Cinematic Panorama Rock Video

While I stagger stumble my blog experience into uncharted waters of online structure, this video, pushes our viewing appreciation around a challenging space, divided into two floors of an open plan factory. The video and song production is the result of a time lapse technique and provides a wealth of unexpected surprises as the camera swims and swoons us through a panoramic cinema of pure gravity.

This immense media art project was directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The song This Too Shall Pass is from the the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky"

Pretty cool and fun all round really !

Nuit Blanche

(from Spy Films) explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.

Nuit Blanche is a visually enthralling slow motion short surreal film by Arev Manoukian, who basically utilized the liquid dynamics of computer graphic animations and chroma key.

Shadow and light are the tools of the trade, in the art of cinematography,  The ability to creatively manipulate those two elements is what separates the great cinematographers from the ones who pop a Sony cam on a tripod and start rolling.

Alex Roman's Architectural Cinematographic Opus

is a full computer graphics animated media art project which he describes as 

"The visual fusion between the third and seventh arts that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal."

Alex did the modeling, texturing, illumination and rendering utilizing 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premier softwares. He sequenced, orchestrated & mixed the sound work with Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP technologies and based the music on the original scores of, The Departure by Michael Laurence Edward Nyman and Le Carnaval des animaux by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns.

Alex Roman's The Third & The Seventh work was based on real places, which he then sifted and cajoled into a delightfully relaxing media art opus which doesn't cause you to have to ratchet your attention every second to be wonderful to watch.