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Category Archives: Cool Stuff on Vimeo
Another Wonderful Namibian Timelapse
While this one appears to be a commercial promo, it still does an amazing job capturing the photographer’s paradise that Namibia is, and can be for those willing to come and explore the country. Enjoy! NAMIBIA from Rufus Blackwell on … Continue reading
Namibian Nights: The Best Timelapse Ever
I’ve looked at a lot of timelapses, and after a certain number of them you just start to want to fast forward through them because they’re spectacular and all, but after awhile everything just sort of starts to look the … Continue reading
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Tagged desert, light, Namibia, night sky, stars, stopmotion, timelapse
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Madagascar on 12.12.12 part II: the Snake
For my second installment in the “One Day on Earth” project, in which filmmakers around the world are invited to contribute footage which may be used in a feature-length film, I was also in Madagascar’s Andasibe-Mantadia National Park. Technically, we … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Stuff on Vimeo, Madagascar, One Day on Earth, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged boa, constrictor, eating, frog, one day on earth, snake, swallow, tree frog
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Madagascar on 12.12.12 part I: the Lemurs
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I have been pretty excited about 12.12.12. Why? Because that’s the day the third “One Day on Earth” film is to be recorded in every country around the world. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Cool Stuff on Vimeo, Madagascar, One Day on Earth, Wildlife and Nature
Tagged indri, lemurs, Madagascar, one day on earth, sifakas
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Free Animation Course by Bill Plympton
Want to learn more about animation from one of its masters? Bill Plympton is an animator who hand draws all of his frames – a dying art that has almost been completely replaced by Pixar-style computer animation. Don’t get me … Continue reading
Peace through Dance
Every now and then, I like to see what people are up to on Kickstarter, and how they make their pitch – in particular the video projects. Now and then you come across some really interesting projects. “Dancing in Jaffa” … Continue reading
What are YOUR plans for 12.12.12.?
On 12.12.12, filmmakers all over the world will be collecting footage for One Day on Earth, the third volume in a three-year project to capture a single day on earth, as experienced all over this amazing planet. Wouldn’t you like … Continue reading
One Day on Earth: The 11/11/11 Trailer is Here!
“One Day on Earth” is a fascinating project to collate footage from every country in the world into a single full-length film. In its first iteration, filmmakers worldwide were asked to submit footage taken on October 10, 2010 – or … Continue reading
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Tagged 11.11.11., 11/11/11, film, global, one day on earth
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Town of Ghosts
Awhile back, I posted about photographing ghost towns – specifically Kolmanskop, Namibia. When we looked at photographing the town, we thought about whether it might look better in black and white – but that morning, the warm light made everything … Continue reading
World’s Largest Stick Insect Hatches
Here’s a video you’ve probably seen before. It’s one of the world’s rarest insects, hatching from an impossibly small egg. The eggs are offspring of a breeding pair found under a bush growing on a rock that juts up out … Continue reading
A cardboard bicycle?? Yeah, but is it lighter than carbon fiber?
There’s a story making the rounds about a guy who has invented a bicycle nearly entirely made of cardboard. In short, they told him it couldn’t be done, and he went and proved them wrong – the best kind of … Continue reading
“One Day on Earth” Music Video
The “One Day on Earth” project, which collected video from all over the world on 11.11.11 (and also, by the way, on 10.10.10), has stitched all their footage together into a full-length film, which is to be screened at many … Continue reading
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Tagged Music for Video, one day on earth, worldwide
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From the folks at “One Day on Earth”
A few months ago, I wrote about the “One Day on Earth” project, when people all over the world were invited to submit video recorded on 11.11.11 to OneDayOnEarth.org. Their plan was to stitch together donated footage from the vast … Continue reading
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Tagged 11.11.11., crowdsourcing, experimental, film, global, OneDayOnEarth
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Document One Day On Earth
There’s a wonderful project called One Day on Earth where they are asking for help in documenting just that. If you happened to catch some video on 11.11.11 (sorry for the late notice!) you can sign up at the site and … Continue reading
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Tagged 11.11.11., collaboration, one day on earth, worldwide
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Why Afghanistan Matters
For what it’s worth, I spent the last five years of my military career (now retired) working for Afghanistan in the communication realm. Over the course of my ten trips there between 2006 and 2011, I felt constantly annoyed, yet … Continue reading
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Tagged Afganistan, Afghanistan, why afghanistan matters
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Visualizing Kiva’s Microfinancing
What happens when you depict a microloan as a tiny speck of light on a world map, going from one country to another? And then you multiply that by 620,000 lenders and 615,000 borrowers who were microfinanced via the innovative … Continue reading
Back the short film “Cicada Princess”
Ever think about backing a film? “Cicada Princess”, by Mauricio Baiocchi will, with a little support from reg’lar folks like us, become a 5-minute short film and companion book. It’s a story based on the remarkable lives of cicadas, which … Continue reading
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Tagged backing, Cicada, Cicada Princess, donate, kickstarter, short, short film
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Video: One Day at a Time…
I like checking out Vimeo because it’s chock full of creative ideas and videos in a way that other sites are not. But then again it’s “so many ideas, so little time”. But this video, called “Today” is well worth … Continue reading
Vimeo Awards Winners
Check out loads of cool videos from over 6,500 submissions in Vimeo’s short film festival. The winners are posted here and the community choice awards are here. Plenty of great viewing from filmmakers you never heard of.
Posted in Cool Stuff on Vimeo, Video Contests
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DIY Space Video
Want to make a video of the earth from miles above it (17 to be exact)? This family figured out how to do it, using items you probably have lying around the house. And in the end it didn’t end … Continue reading
Another Reason I Love Vimeo – The Story Behind the Still
For a few months now, Vimeo has been hosting a video contest called “The Story Beyond the Still.” OK it’s hosted by Canon, but on Vimeo. It’s a wonderful mix of user-generated content and crowdsourcing, in that users are … Continue reading