Category: Cool Stuff on Vimeo
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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 same. This one, however, is different. Not only because I’ve tried to take photos in…
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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 were in the “Réserve Spéciale d’Analamazaotra,” and we were watching an indri (the largest kind…
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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 film, recorded on 10.10.10, was in my Christmas stocking this year (you can order yours…
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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 to join us? Where will YOU be on 12.12.12? It doesn’t have to be an…
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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 10.10.10 – which was turned into a film that premiered on Earth Day 2012 (and…
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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 so orange, with the sand filling most of the buildings, we thought color made things…
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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 of the ocean in the middle of nowhere. They were thought to be extinct for…
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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 story. Apparently they think it can be marketed for 20 bucks, which will make a…
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“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 venues worldwide on April 22 – Earth Day. One of the benefits of contributing is…
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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 majority of our planet’s countries into a feature film. Well, it seems their work is…
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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 contribute your content for consideration in a feature film. The same was done on 10.10.10…
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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 challenged, by the relatively superficial portrayal of the country being served to the rest of…
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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 organization Kiva (kiva.org)? Check out this creation by Kiva on Vimeo which depicts five+ years…
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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 watching and thinking about. The description reads: “On August 27th, 2009 Jonathan Harris turned 30…
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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.
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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 up costing a dime, because they recovered (nearly) everything they used. This is amazing –…