10.08.2011

christopher.slaughter

Adapted from an article on the photographer Tim Archibald, good advice for those in the creative business: 

• Learn the history of your craft.
• Tell someone whose work you love why you love it.
• Surround yourself with a community of peers whose work you admire.
• Don’t pay a consultant for advice, listen closely to your friends.
• Call a creative worker on the phone and ask them how they made a project you like.
• Always be honest and generous with your advice to others.
• Learn how to be happy for your fellow creatives when they kick ass.

creative | business | advice | Cool | Media

11.05.2011

andrea.rascaglia

White Balance is boring!

If you like to mess around with your photos and you are a Lightroom or Aperture user you can grab some cool color preset at preset pond.

Here are the ones I made:

http://presetpond.com/author/andrearusky/ 

presetpond | Andrea Rascaglia | look | preset | aperture | lightroom | color grading | photo | photography

10.05.2011

christopher.slaughter

Quite cool... and apparently based on a true story.  This video made by Ogilvy Taiwan... for a bank, of all things. 

Taiwan | Cool | video

08.05.2011

andrea.rascaglia

Filmmaker Philip Bloom shot and edited a very cool HDR time-lapse.

Check the link with the commentary / behind the scenes:

http://philipbloom.net/2011/05/07/24hoursofneon/

http://vimeo.com/23413966

Up until this point I had a collection of timelapses being taken but no real glue…it’s the glue that holds a piece together. Be it a theme, an object, a character, a story. Without that glue it was just random shots.

I went over to Tower 3 to help Eric Kessler set up his camera for a timelapse, I took two cameras with me too to capture his angle as he was facing the other way. It was not at this point that I had my Eureka moment. It was the next morning when I went to pick up my cameras. Eric had done a 7 bracket timelapse with his GH2. I had experimented just once with bracketing exposure for timelapse a while back but never did the post work on it. Eric showed me an example frame and it looked nice. I stole the footage from him and messed around with it in Photomatix Pro and using the tone mapping setting I tweaked it around a fair bit until I got something that was striking…

02.03.2010

christopher.slaughter

In case you haven't seen it already, the pop band OK Go  (they of "treadmills video" fame) have created yet another fantastic music video.

The Rube Goldberg machine was built by Syyn Labs, a group of "...creative engineers who twist together art and technology... (and) build interactive installations that encourage strangers to play together by lowering social barriers."

Rube Goldberg | OK Go | geek | amusing | Cool | funny | master shot | music