New GoPro HD Hero2 Video - Worth a Look!

http://youtu.be/GUEZCxBcM78

Nope. Chuck Testa.

Fan-flippin-tastic. - dp knudten

Avoid Looking Like a Social Media Tool

Take a look at this.

How Did Steve Jobs Learn to Innovate?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/steve-jobs-apple-pixar-and-inspiring-innovation-video/2011/08/25/gIQArkNwdJ_blog.html

Show & Tell & Sell

If you don't know Adam from Adam, it's time you did.



- D.P. Knudten

via John Gruber

Beautiful Corporate Video Can Be Done!

Great Wooden Boats: RED EPIC from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

The Hobbit Production Diary

Look at that scouting. What I wouldn't give to be apart of that.

Leica Lenses

Leica Lenses (English) from leica camera on Vimeo.

Final Cut Pro

Team CoCo's take on Final Cut Pro X:

simple yet interactive

Source: The San Francisco Egotist

This is the way video advertising should be done

Enjoy

When is a picture worth > 1000 words?

Interesting sorta-still treatment for photography.



Could be very cool, and lightweight, for interactive applications.

- D.P. Knudten

(thx to Tom Cranley @ Roman Candle)

7D Slo-Mo

Behold.

Optimist from Brian Thomson on Vimeo.

-dp knudten

Evolution of the Cell Phone

This is a cool multimedia presentation of the evolution of the cell phone. I would have liked to have seen a more locked down camera or some dolly/tracking shots, but the presentation is awesome.

Slow-Mo Surfing Shot with a Canon 7D

Devin Graham shot this beautiful surfing footage using a Canon 7D and a couple lenses (70-200mm and 100-400mm) with a 2x teleconverter, so much of the footage was shot at 800mm. The slow motion is actually “faked” (here’s another faked 7D video) using software:

To get the “super slow motion”, after I filmed at 60fps, I through it into the program “After Effects”. I used an effect that comes with the program called “Time Warp”. This allowed me to make the 60fps, to 1000fps. The way this works is the computer processes/adds frames in between the frames that are already in existence. It took several days for the computer to process the clips into the super slow motion that appears as well, so it does take a lot out of the computer, as far as processing goes.

Using After Effects or Twixtor to create fake slow mo is becoming a pretty popular technique. Beats shelling out big bucks to rent a high speed camera for many purposes.

Everyday people.

Simple. Visual. Droll. Nice.



- dp knudten

thx gruber

Tartine Bread on Vimeo

Tartine Bread on Vimeo

Check out this great cinematic approach to coporate video that is so much more than just talking heads and voice over. The filmmakers really use all of the aspects of cinematography, editing and music to really help "tell the story."


Enjoy.

Creative Space

Awesome creative space that Chris and I toured last week in Milwaukee. Click on the photos once you reach the page:

http://blend-studios.com/

Creative Scan-and-Draw Color-Changing Pen Design

What if you could take your trusty drawing pen and simply scan any color you want and then turn around and draw with it?

http://dornob.com/creative-scan-and-draw-color-changing-pen-design

Sled Shots

This has some cool angles to keep in mind when shooting snowmobiles.

A New Way of Doing Movie Posters

This may be a game changer on how you view movie posters online.

Behind The Scenes of Pixar

The only crime about this clip is it's only 6 minutes long. Amazing company culture they have developed at Pixar.

http://vimeo.com/19789693

Fonts 101. Literally.

Don't know squat about typography?



Get schooled in 52 cool (and free) pages. Thanks, Font Shop.

- dp knudten

Best editing drives best spot.

Great copy. Great shots. Great editing. And Marshall Mathers has great delivery too.

Big risk. Really paid off.

How many times can you say one TV spot made you rethink an entire brand?

- dp knudten

Meisha Impossible.

So what's our Trail Nation host been up to?



Personally, I'm getting a tat of Gandalf today.

- dp knudten.

From the reel of Cole Koehler. Nice stuff.

Matrix Masala.

Bollywood mashes up Terminator and Matrix tropes to create AWESOME!



Flippin' love it. My fav? Machine gun forked tongue! Must see to believe.

-dpknudten

Thanks, Boing Boing.

2011 Search Predictions

Greenlight's top 10 predictions for paid and natural search in 2011 include:

Greenlight - 2011 Search Predictions

Polarizing? Good.

From a Fast Company article about the advent of the Livestrong campaign:

"Jones and Milkshake kept brainstorming: Defy cancer. Living forward. A strong life. Finally, they arrived at Live Strong, which became Livestrong. It sounded organic, a natural extension of Armstrong. The only catch? As much as some survivors felt empowered by the name (to the point of getting Livestrong tattoos), others in the focus groups disliked it. "You cannot tell someone diagnosed with cancer to live strong," one survivor insisted. "That's obnoxious."

"One thing I've learned," Jones told Ulman and his staff, "is that when things are polarizing, it's right."

Agreed.

- dpknudten

Comedy Central's new logo

Article here

Tell a story without words

WOW! Facial Expression animation MADNESS!!!

Video Games | L.A. Noire | Developer Diary: The Technology Behind Performance

Xbox 360 | PlayStation 3 | Nintendo Wii | PC Games

Turning All Clients Into Dream Clients (or Common Client Difficulties)

Here's a link to a couple interesting takes on client expectations and relationships...

Turning All Clients Into Dream Clients (or Common Client Difficulties)