Here’s a behind the scenes look at the making of a Rip Curl surf commercial made using 52 cameras. Timeslice seems to have the bullet-time technique down to a science.
Final Cut Plugin for easier H.264 workflow
This new plugin will allow Final Cut to automatically convert H.264 files (from Canon cameras at least) into the ProRes codec without any extra work. There are a bunch of other useful things the update does. Read more about it here.
Gravis – Dylan Reider
After watching his episodes on Epicly Later’d, I am feeling particularly inspired by Dylans story of fame and misfortune. If you somehow missed this amazing video he put out for Gravis, you can thank me later for showing you.
Posted in Skateboarding, Video
Antwuan Dixon Epicly Later’d
I must admit this is probably the first episode of Epicly Later’d that I have watched the whole way through… but I am not disappointed. I am currently watching the Dylan Rieder episodes. All of them. For those who don’t know, Epicly Later’d is a web video series produced by fellow Ohio-an Patrick O’Dell, presented by Vice, where he interviews the bigger names in skateboarding these days. Each episode is a very honest, uncensored look into the lives of these professional athletes. I highly recommend watching.
Posted in Skateboarding, Video
Robin Leduc – Laissez Moi Passer
This is a very visually stimulating music video from French musician Robin Leduc. The song isn’t the greatest, but the stop motion animation makes up for it. I would tell you more about its production but I can’t read French.
Krooked 3-D Trailer
Krooked will be releasing a full-length DVD this Friday entirely in 3D. Check out the most recent trailers. I hope everyone saved their Avatar glasses.
Posted in Skateboarding, Video
Handy Base.x
Here’s a pretty wild little teaser for a very modular rig for D-SLR filmmaking. Made by Handy Film Tools.
The video cameras of choice for BMX filmers
Nuno at Defgrip made an article where the more popular BMX filmers of this era describe the video cameras they use and why. I found it rather informative, maybe you will too.
Walter Pieringer
While doing some website maintenance this morning I realized that I had forgotten some people on the ‘Links’ page. One of them being Walter Pieringer. Walter is unquestionably one of the best BMX photographers of our time. Taking a look at his website is proof. But what a lot of people don’t know is that Walter was also a shredder back in the day. Don’t believe me? This is where I was going to post a clip from Props where he does that huge wallride and smashes out his teeth. Can’t find it. Fail.
Push It A Stop 