the new place

After looking at 27 places, Natalie and I finally found and awesome place.  We live right by Alamo Square Park - walking distance to Divisadero Street restaurants and shops, and straight down Fulton Street to catch the surf at Ocean Beach.

I thought it'd be fun to make a video of moving in - the music is just something I made on the computer.





Also, there was an awesome sunrise the other day, so here's some pics of that as well.

Ridiculously awesome video

Synchronicity! Old cameras? Just got sent a box full of goodies - a couple Twin-Lens Reflex, Polaroid, bunch of filters. Architecture? Started working with an architectural photographer in LA.  Now, there's this sweet video by Alex Roman at Third & Seventh combining the two! It's 12mins, so give yourself a nice long break. Love the swings in depth of field, and it's paired with awesome music.


The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

Bokeh Video

Just playing around with holiday decorations and street lights, making super out-of-focus balls of light.  I like how the colors overlap. Plus, who doesn't like a little Otis.

Worst Horror Movies

Happy Halloween

from Slate Video, a great multimedia news site.

Publishing

Just finished watching Chase Jarvis' talk : Consequences of Creativity. He spoke to ADCD (Art Director's Club of Denver) and ASMP, a photographer's organization.

One point that stuck me, and anyone who reads anything these days, is that creative people can now also be the ones who publish / share their work. It doesn't have to be "validated" by an ad agency or magazine editor, you create stuff and throw it on the web and instantly people can watch your latest cat-themed-youtube video.

The cool thing about this, is that there's and abundance of stuff to find, created by people with no other motive than just to create. For instance my friend Eric Millard - a great musician - just put up some of his songs on facebook and myspace. The 'goal': simply to meet people with similar interests. With social network and publishing sources like TubeMogul and Issuu, the 'why' of publishing is more of a 'why not' - it's so easy.

I started thinking of all this while I was searching my bookmarks and came Motionographer, and this strange video by Terry Timely: Synesthesia. For some reason, it seems less outlandish after returning from Beijing last night. (And yes, there are cats).

Macro video to Radiohead song

I found this video on my friend Sydney's blog - she's a west coast artist.

I love the slow-motion combined with macro scenes. And insects make for great subjects with the lyrics.

Type is Art

Here is a stop action film I made - took a bunch of still photographs, where I moved the graphic elements just a tiny bit each frame. Got the inspiration from two places: Sue Tallon - my favorite food and conceptual photographer right now; and TypeIsArt, a website where you can mash around parts of letter into graphic art pieces. The song I created last fall, and it's just been kicking around my head with no outlet. I think it fits with this video.

Cool Reel

Really like this guy's  reel (Matthieu Bessudo).  Funky take on the old cartoon aesthetics.

Still some use for turntables!

I have my parents' turntable in the corner of my apartment, but I'd never thought of doing something like this. Maybe I just like the wolf costumes...

Video on creativity

I saw this video on my friend JD Beebe's blog - The New Anti-Social

Tilt shift time lapse = awesome

Here's an interesting video, made with tilt shift lenses and time lapse. It's from Keith Loutit at http://keithloutit.com/


Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.