beep show

This was a photo shoot from http://phootcamp.com 2011 in Marfa, Texas, organized by Ryan Schude http://ryanschude.com/ - The music is a mashup I made of a 1938 Acapella recording of "Out on The Western Plain" from http://archive.org/details/EatMyCountryAcapella combined with the Sissy Noby DJ Sega Remix http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/18/premiere-sissy-nobby-lay-me-down-dj-sega-rmx-mp3/ which is a Sissy Bounce track. Pretty weird, I know.  Photos featured, in order, by:  

Daniel Seung Lee http://danielseunglee.com/phootcamp2011

Cheyne Gallarde http://www.firebirdphoto.com/

Mark Lobo AKA Tender Wolf http://www.marklobo.com.au/

Mona Brooks http://monabrooks.com/

Simply the best tech event I've been to: http://brooklynbeta.org 

I was inspired to make this after I started out doing a Crowd-sourced motion control experiment there, and ended up collaborating with http://captainandthefox.com who shot most of the moving video and worked with me on the editing. You should hire them for video work. I just do these for fun and was interested in trying to capture a small slice of the event.

Music http://bit.ly/yz7atI and Photos are used under the Creative Commons Attrib Non-Commercial license. 

Thanks to everyone that helped with this, to Chris & Cameron for putting the whole thing on, and to all the attendees for pushing the sweet scissor cart provided by Restoration Hardware (http://bit.ly/oSAFWt).

This is a trailer for an upcoming time lapse of a trip I shot a few months ago going from London to Iceland. Thanks to Jessica Zollman and Michael O'Neal for collaborating on this one, and to IcelandAir for sending me and two fellow photographers on the trip so that I could make one of my weird time-lapses.

The final two minute video is getting close to done so I wanted to release a trailer. There are about 1,000 photos represented in this trailer, but I shot 52,000 photos total over six days for the full piece. I've spent about 230 hours editing and rendering, which makes it by far my most ambitious time lapse to date. If someone could tell me why I keep making these I'd appreciate it.

Speaking of that, it's 100% my wacky photo project and not an ad for IcelandAir in any way shape or form. They covered our travel costs but we didn't accept any payment - I simply make these because I like am addicted to making time-lapses, and they thought it was an interesting way to show a trip from London to Iceland. Also, I fucking love Iceland so I hope you go there.

SF to Paris in Two Minutes

Shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse. Made with a 5d2, a time-lapse controller, and a 16mm – 35mm, mixed with some iPhone shots. The music is a modified demo track “Gain” by DETUNE ltd. denkitribe on the Korg iMS20 iPad App. I’m pretty sure the track is copyrighted but it’s My First Synthesizer score so I’m hoping denkitribe is cool with it. Edits and pans in After Effects CS5 and iMovie.

The photos during take-off and landing are all computer models and totally rendered because I would never use an electronic device during times which the FAA prohibits them. I did get lucky and have a whole row to myself to setup the tripod and gear.

Birthday Bonfire

2,204 Photos shot over 24 hours on a balcony in Austin. Song is She's Got You by Patsy Cline. Edited in After Effects CS5.

5,404 photos and three hours of video, mostly shot on a 5D2 with a bike-mounted tripod plus a tilt-shift lens at SXSW 2010. Edited in After Effects CS5 and iMovie on a 13" Macbook. Thanks to everyone at the SF Embassy, and at SXSW in general. Quadruple rainbow thanks to @lbm, @sgoralnick,@jayzombie, and everyone that gave me tips on editing this. Also thanks to all the amazing artists who played SXSW, and specifically the eight featured in this video. They are *almost* all used for less than 10 seconds, which hopefully constitutes some kind of Girl Talk fair use. In order from the video:

Our Grand Prize Award-Winning entry for the Explain IA Contest. Shot and directed by Nate Bolt and Kate Nartker who make these weird videos for fun as Beep Show. This one was for for Bolt | Peters. Starring Audrey as "daughter" and Frances James as "mother."

Huge thanks to everyone that helped. Especially Cyd Harrell for loaning us her amazingly talented 5yr old daughter Audrey. And thanks to Audrey for being amazing. Our special guest star Lou Rosenfeld, and to Jesse James Garrett for his thoughts at IA Summit '09. Script by the esteemed Tony Tulathimuttewho right now is laughing, always laughing. Thanks to Paul Octavious for remote art direction. The lego Falling Water belongs to Laura G and Men's Wearhouse. Intro Music is La Traviata Libiamo, purchased royalty-free from Stock Music, and Rick only lasts nine seconds, which should fall within fair use. Ask Girl Talk about that.

SHOTS New Years 2010