February 2012
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Watch5 Seconds Every Day Jan 29 - Feb 4
29. Rendering in After Effects 30. Looking out the window at work 31. Mustard1. Brushing my teeth 2. Kendra giving a presentation 3. Transferring the Honey Blonde 4. Kona (with annoying current owners)
January 2012
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Watch5 Seconds Every Day Jan 22-28
22. Kendra playing soccer 23. Making tortilla soup 24. Chatting with Chuck 25. Fuggles hops ready to go into Honey Blonde 26. Timelapse of the day 27. Working at Starbucks 28. Kona
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WatchThe Landlord (2009). One of my shorts is finally available online!
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Watch5 Seconds Every Day Jan 15-21
15. Scraping off the car 16. Herd of Elk 17. Pouring a Founders Backwoods Bastard 18. Kona 19. Getting a hair cut 20. Flying over the Willamette flooding 21. Kona
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Watch5 Seconds Every Day January 8-14
8. Soccer at the Sports Park 9. Night bike ride home 10. Morning ride into work 11. Eating some grilled venison 12. Kendra making frosting 13. OSU gymnastics meet 14. Grilling flank steak
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WatchThis year I am shooting at least 5 seconds of video (not for work) every day. Here is the first week. 0. New Years countdown 1. First kiss of the new year for Adam and Hillar 2. Grilling 3. Watching Michigan in the Sugar Bowl 4. Birthday Dinner 5. Unloading the uHaul 6. Our new house 7. Creepy things we found in the backyard I hope you enjoy 2012!
December 2011
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Favorite Videos 2011
It is that time of year again. A time to look back through a back-log of “likes” on Vimeo and find the videos that I think are especially good. There are a lot to choose from, but I narrowed it down. These are my favorite videos from 2011.
(click the titles to watch the videos)
5. Hero by Miguel Endara
I just recently found this video and I think it is simply incredible. It is a...
November 2011
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August 2011
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WatchDam Removal.
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Gifs FTW!
Animated .gifs used to be the bain of the web. Little creatures waving at you in all of their 8-bit glory, websites with flashing backgrounds giving seizures to any un-knowing visitor, and other small annoying animations. This was all up until someone started making their pictures move.
These are referred to as cinemagraphs. There is a flickr group dedicated to them...
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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How we did it: 24 Hour Short Film
Compass College of Cinematic Arts puts on a 24 Hour Film Festival each year. My team and I have participated in the past 4 and have always had a great experience. Our films have come out with good reviews and made the Top Ten each year. This year was the first time that none of us were going to be in Michigan (where the festival is held), but we thought we would give it a try anyway. Having only...
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WatchJust in case you missed it, this is our entry into the Compass College for Cinematic Arts 24 Hour Film Festival. We won 3rd place out of around 20 teams. This film was created in 5 different states during the 24 hour period.
It was quite an undertaking and we relied heavily on a variety of services for file transfers.
Enjoy!
April 2011
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WatchSwings and the Park. An experimental video.
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March 2011
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WatchBrushing my teeth to Kanye West, just for fun.
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February 2011
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WatchNew video! Playing around with a 50mm 2.5 Macro lens and some extension tubes. I got some really shallow DoF here!
It is a challenge to get used to shooting macro, and I need to practice it more, since I will be shooting a lot of macro nature stuff for Freshwaters Illustrated this spring.
WatchA scene from “There Will be Blood” with audience eye tracking overlaid. This could be a fantastic technology to use for filmmakers to see where the audience is looking during a film!
Ever wanted to know the Star Wars locations? →
How to get paid to make movies.
This may be a little cynical, but when it comes down to it: you either sell your own work or you make things to sell other people’s work.
The ideal situation is selling your own work, but the percentage of people that can do this is so low that we often end up using our talents to sell things for other people.
One of the best ways to not feel like you are selling out your skills is to work...
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WatchCorvallis Snow 7x7
January 2011
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WatchI finally got around to smoothing out some of the shots from this little doc about making maple syrup. Enjoy!
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WatchTesting Widerscreen videos on Vimeo
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Reality Crash: The Moviefilm! →
Here is an article from the local paper talking about the shoot I was on last weekend. You can kinda see my under the RED in one of the photos, there is also one of the monitor I used for focusing…
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Watchmmmm.
How to Shoot Footage Your Editor Will Respect →
After reading this article I just had to share it. As shooters you must know when to stop rolling on a shot or when to ask for a redo. It will save editors from pulling out their hair in post!