The three-point landing is not so much a skill one learns, but rather a mark of pure coolness. And don’t forget that head snap:
A popular visual trope often associated with martial arts.
After performing a particularly cool move, or dropping from a great height, the character lands on the ground in a crouching position, feet wide apart and supporting their weight with one hand on the floor while the other hand is outstretched away from their body, usually pointed diagonally upwards.
Old skool toys and board games are put to good use in this stop-motion drum & bass, dubstepy music video. Then they’re destroyed. But put to good use again!
Light painting and bullet time are both amazing photographic techniques on their own, but what happens when you combine them?
The amazing video above by Richard Kendall and his team shows just that: three-dimensional light painting captured with a 360-degree Matrix-style bullet time (96) camera rig. The results are stunning.
One man’s intense journey to navigate the shadowy world of fast food drive-thrus:
Every Thursday I work in the Adult Mental Health Assessment Unit located in a separate building on the other side of the road to the Hospital. I like it there, the atmosphere is a lot more relaxed, the patients aren’t confined to their bedrooms and are mostly friendly (drugs could have something to do with it) and the exchange of dialogue and mannerisms I see from the patients whom I interact with on that one day are always interesting. Not a sterile environment like in the film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and nothing like the main hospital environment either.
Not to divulge any harmful, confidential patient behavior that could irrevocably ruin reputations, but I’ve seen Karate moves aimed at the wind that would make Jackie Chan fall off his bench in amazement, and dance moves so fly if they opened a studio they’d put any competition out of business. It is a very comforting atmosphere for patients to feel safe and get well in. Plus the cleaner down there gives me pots of jelly and fruit which is nice of her. I never eat the stuff.
Two weeks ago while passing the lounge in intensive care I saw a bushy-browed Brad Dourif on the telly and had to back-step to do a double take. He’s one of my favourite character actors and anything with Dourif in it is bound to be special. Well the movie that they were playing for the unfortunate viewers was DUNE (not David Lynch’s cut but Alan Smithee’s version, Alan Smithee is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968) which is one of the most heavy and trippy sci-fi films someone unaccustomed with science-fiction could ever watch. Why were they screening that for mentally unstable South Aucklanders? Then again, I doubt any of the wardens even knew what the movie was.
Dourif is in a great many of my favourite films. I recall him also starring in a memorable episode of The X-Files (“Beyond the Sea” S01E13) where he claimed being able to communicate with ghosts as a conduit for messages from the spirit world. The story revolved around the skeptic come believer, Agent Dana Scully for a change, who had recently lost her Father (played by the late Don Sinclair Davis) and whose religious beliefs coincided with Brad Dourif’s visions of a murderer loose on the streets. It was a great role reversal for the two agents. X-Files baby. Good episode. I remember way back in Primary and Intermediate school when no kid was allowed up past their bed-time, I used to tell my friends X-Files stories (sometimes only half way) so well that I’m still being reminded of that to this day. Good times.
*Ahem* To conclude; last Thursday I passed that same lounge and noticed, standing out like a mound of red sand, the awful Liz Hurley and Brendon Fraser in Bedazzled, which is a story about receiving wishes from the devil in return for a soul. In my opinion, this is another strange movie to be screening in a mental ward. Not to mention screening for anyone for that matter because that movie blows.
This is a small observation I made and I’m not suggestion brainwashing patients with movies, but perhaps the content of the movies that the Wards choose to show could help relieve patient anxiety. What do you think? Keep it PG, CMDHB.
Mental illness is a clinically significant behaviour or psychological (to do with the mind) disorder that is associated with distress or disability. It is not just the way someone responds to a particular event nor is it limited to the way a person interacts with society.
A mental illness can continuously or intermittently (occasionally) affect our capacity for speech, language, mood, affect, thoughts, perceptions, insight, judgement, cognition (understanding) and volition (ability to make choices). It can limit our ability to function as society would normally expect of us and can put us and others at risk.
Mental illness is therefore, a broad term that covers problems ranging from minor to severe disorders.
For some reason, stuff being blown to smithereens is always attention grabbing, but to watch something destroyed in seconds in slow motion is surreal. And by ‘something’ I mean explosive experiments on household items:
Super slow motion highlights from Danish TV show “Dumt & Farligt”.
“Kara” certainly has a rich character arc for a tech-demo. Narratively, this is a stand-alone short film in its own right. A big leap from Quantic Dream’s first Heavy Rain tech-demo engine showcased in 2006 that had a solid emotional edge many games/demos preceding lacked. Here is Quantic Dream’s next cinematic step in motion graphics:
At GDC 2012, Quantic Dream showed this tech demo of a new engine they are building. Note: “Kara” does not represent an actual game.
See how Valorie, the girl behind Kara, got the leading role and see her transformation to become part of Quantic Dream’s latest project.
Freddie Wong and crew are a viral video sensation whose funny shorts, often videogame related and loaded with visual effects, always wind up on someone’s blog. This is his third post here (the real bike hero, real-life portal gun) but only one of the few of his videos I find funny, and the dude has loads of videos. The reveal and reaction scenes are spot on, in this episode of PIMP MY HORSE!
Horse pimping is actually old skool F-Dubs; no wonder your show only lasted 1 episode:
Watch the behind the scenes video to get an idea of how dedicated these guys are to making people smile, and creating perfect 3D stunner shades for horses:
Wow. At first I didn’t think much of this because, well I didn’t understand what the big fuss was about ~ I know how great “Rear Window” is. But this is, as someone has already said, an awesome video accomplishment. Not for the timelapse per se, but for assembling the various scenes to form a panoramic view. The technology would have been unfathomable in 1954, even today it takes true ingenuity to create something like this with the technology available:
I dissected all of Hitchcock’s Rear Window and stitched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them.
Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie’s plot. ~ Creator, Jeff Desom
While cleaning out boxes in my room, I found some forgotten footage from back when I was attending film school. This brought back memories and good feelings, I was actually laughing aloud.
Not a day went by that I didn’t have my small Sony handycam with me, and together with my like-minded, new-found friends, we were one take wonders. Not only that, but we often made these mini shorts during school time:
During intermission for a children’s ‘Peter Pan’ play we were currently performing ~ hence the costumes and makeup.
Love the expressions! That was one of our best quirky shorts. Filmed in chronological order, completely impromptu, no rehearsal and one-take for every shot. After every one we would laugh because we kept surprising ourselves. The audio wasn’t perfect either because the laughter would often continue through while rolling.
Apart from the audio and the disappearing act/major continuity error towards the end (I didn’t call our band the ‘Shit Shooters’ for nothing :D), I’d say that was a job well done guys. Thanks for the memories.
Related news; my friend Tomah Mackie is back home in the United States continuing to live his passion. He has a new short film (written and directed) called “L O V E S U C K” which will be released early May. Here is a making-of-video to the production, aptly named “Passion for Cinema”
This short film was shot in Milwaukee by a talented and creative group of people who don’t call themselves filmmakers… yet.
That is a cool featurette and I dig it. A real insight into your appreciation toward storytelling. I look forward to watching “Lovesuck.” From myself and your New Zealand film family; good luck and well done to you and your crew Tom ~ Kia Kaha Bro!
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