OFFF

I'm OFFF to Barcelona - yay!

Really looking forward to catch up with some friends and meet some new — get inspired again.

It's needed at the moment, been a bit much work lately, so looking forward to a break indeed.

Watch this space for reports on the festival.

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Fabric video

So... I've just finished and delivered a video for Fabric

The mix combines 90's music with current music — 30 tracks featured in 60 minutes, so there was a lot of choice of audio for the video — almost too much!

I spent quite a lot of time to do the audio mixdown (which is where my old DJ skills had to come into practice, though I played Techno!), as I had to select 4-5 tracks out of these 30 — in a way creating my own mini-fabric-mix for my video.

I wanted to make a visual that shows both old school 90's and more current sounds, as is done in the mix by Jackmaster.

Basically: I like to stand in the space between two mirrors and look either left or right, or to look at a TV screen which is feeding from a camera - filming the screen and look into 'infinity'. BUT what I always found annoying is that I can't see beyond a certain angle — the angle you can view is the angle of what the camera is shooting.

I've experimented to try and do a similar thing by slicing the frames of footage in space and observing them from different angles with a 3D camera (through after effects) this is a technique I tried randomly 2-3 years ago when at college.

Inspired by:

I can unfortunately not upload the video yet but here are some frames from the video:

Looking at movement through time

Going inside a movement or person

Just flew back to London last night...

I went to Sweden for a holiday during the royal wedding, flew back last night which made this 5 minute TED talk extra relevant and inspirational

Holidays

Just came back from a week in the alps (val thoréns) AMAZING weather every day and great snow + great company. So many laughs and nice to see a place where everyone has a smile on their face. Really refreshing. I shot a few videos with my iphone while there, here is on from a after ski place at 2400m altitude called la folie douce.

Project TMead

Test from my shoot at Thamesmead. I am planning to make a conceptual shortfilm and learn some new techniques along the way such as tracking and integrating 3D and live-action.

Learning C4D

I've been learning dynamics and gravitation in C4D and it's pretty easy once you've got the hang of it.

I've been following tutorials by greyscalegorilla and other video's on youtube.