This has been out for awhile but just in case you havn’t seen it, Jon Rawlinson captures the 2nd largest aquarium in the world and displays it beautifully as living art.

Truly stunning…
-Andrew

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Thanks to everyone for all the terrific feedback and comments on this and all the other blogs that carried the Living One Sheet Video! It’s great to be part of this discussion. This is such an incredibly exciting time to be an image maker. We are at the dawn of something new.

It won’t be long before the Harry Potter vision of the future is realized with moving portraits adorning newspapers and adverts. I am so excited about all the possibilities with converging photography with motion and thrilled to be on the front lines.

I’ve been getting some feedback about how these changes are exciting but scary, and some fear about the barrier to entry (cost of Red etc…) and I’d just like to state the obvious and say that yeah, change can be scary, but as Heraclitus pointed out 2500 years ago, the only constant is change. So as artists, we wind up facing the fundamental Darwinian axiom- evolve or dissolve.

Sure the Red One is expensive, but you can rent. And even still, the video image quality from the 5DMII is breathtaking, and that is certainly affordable.

So I challenge you to go out and try something. Take your aesthetic and vision as an image maker and try something new. I’d love to see what you can come up with. As an added incentive, there’s even a contest in the works. Stay tuned for the deets.

Best,

Alexx

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As promised, here is our experience with using the Red One Camera, chronicling our voyage beyond the still image.  Looking forward to our next project featuring living art portraits. Stay tuned… After the video, take a peek at the links to see the final results.

We’re very excited about all the possibilities with converging photography and motion. Big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. Especially Pam, DJ and Chad over at Hallmark who championed the idea. It’s not every client who is willing to take a risk with something new and they deserve recognition for this.

Living One Sheets: Final Versions after the jump:

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From dpreview.com: Canon has announced a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR enabling manual exposure when shooting videos. With the updated version, users will be able to manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture and ISO settings in the video mode. The new firmware will be available for download on 2 June 2009 from Canon’s website.

Let the fun begin.

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Just ran into this video by the White Rabbits directed by Andrew Droz Palermo. It is a definite watch. The simple set design and circular motion really make this video stand out. This just goes to show you don’t need a complicated and expensive video set to create something amazing. The circular movement really helps you experience the flow of the song. When a music video matches all the elements of music, editing, and lighting together, it’s a beautiful thing. It can make you really feel a song. This video reminds me of one of my old favorite music videos by Taking Back Sunday.

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-Andrew 

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LED lights have always amazed me and they seem to be popping up as beautiful art pieces. I would love to have this Wind Activated LED display somewhere in my city at night. This was made by Jason Krugman.

“Conceptually, this project developed out of an idea to create a modular system that does not rely on a central decision making hub, such as a computer…Wind is one of the few natural phenomena that can penetrate the dense urban environment. However, we can’t see it because it needs a media to propagate through. The city, constructed of glass, steel and concrete, is intentionally rigid, not allowing nature to affect it. By purposefully adding a physical media for the wind to affect, we can make it a prominently visible feature of the urban environment, bringing natural beauty into densest urban thicket.”

-Andrew

via Kanye West

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I came across this on Vimeo’s staff picks the other night. I was won over immediately by the comical sound effects. The creature that resembles a dog is also so adorable I’m ashamed to like it so much. Story and sound effects aside though, Nelson has an incredible imagination and an amazing artistic style. He is very talented and he is destined for great things if he keeps it up! After a little more research into him, I found that he’s also made a couple videos without animation that also show great promise. I really hope he ends up in charge wherever he works though, because I’d love to see a movie filled with the creations from Mr. Boles mind.

-Andrew

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DailyDOOH posted this interactive Jameson ad by TBWA/Chiat/Day New York awhile back and I’m still showing it to people. We are all about out-of-home advertising here and all it takes is something a little different, and these interactive campaigns are a great start.

The possibilities are still unlimited here folks…
-Andrew

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So we recently wrapped production on a Living Movie Poster photographed using the Red One camera.  I really believe this is the future and I’m super thrilled to be a part of the revolution. If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s very cool if it’s done right. What begins as a still image suddenly comes alive when the characters move, perform an action, and then resolve back to the poster frame. If you thought the portraits and newspapers from Harry Potter were the future, then look no further. Unfortunately, we can’t release the final Living Poster yet, but as soon as the movie promotion begins I’ll have it up here.

This is the teaser, but keep checking back and in the coming weeks we’ll be posting videos that show how and why we used the Red One, how and why we used the Briese Focus-180 as a key-light, and the whole progression of creating a Living Movie Poster. Stay tuned…

-Alexx

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Watching Danny MacAskill perform on his bike is truly inspiring. Clearly this is someone who lives by the idea that being good is not enough. The little narrative at the beginning of the clip is a window into that philosophy and serves as a wonderful vignette on the merits of persistence.

-Alexx

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