You never know when this tutorial on diving from a waterfall will come handy. Oddly enough, the figure in the how-to image looks exactly like Harrison Ford and his epic dive from The Fugitive. Below is the classic scene I’m referencing.
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Wave cinemagraphs by Ray Collins
Photographer Ray Collins captures the magic that happens at the intersection of water and light. Each shot in this film was created from a single one of Ray’s original photos. The stills are transformed into cinemagraphs – a hybrid between photo and video – an infinite loop that makes a single moment last forever. The original […]
A trip through New York City, 1911
In 1911, Swedish film company Svenska Biografteatern recorded its trip to New York. Fortunately, the footage survived and most recently was speed-corrected and reproduced with added street sounds of car horns, horses, and police whistles to give us a sense of the environment back then. Some observations: Notice all the people wearing hats The streets look a […]
Where fashion and architecture meet
A monochromatic film by LA-based filmmaker Eliot Lee Hazel, who has also done visual work for Thom York and Beck. Says Hazel: “In this film, imagery that is simultaneously epic and poetic combines to produce an intimate portrayal of a symbolic central figure.” Watch the video in its entirety below:
Adamant about living in the now
“I live in the now so the past is something you’ll have to dig up.” — David Hockney, the British artist who’s become known as the ‘the painter of Southern California’ “Artists aren’t hedonists. They’re workers.” Hockey’s persistence echoes Japan’s Hokusai who also believed the best work was yet to come. You can take breaks […]
Herzog: “Don’t wait for the system to accept you.”
“Don’t wait for the system to accept you. You create your own system, create your own [budget] and make your own first feature film or your first own documentary.” Werner Herzog talks filmmaking, Pokemon Go, and how to manage our online life via Daily Prompt: Apprentice
Spike Jonze: ‘You have to do the work now, because you don’t have forever’
“You have to do the work now, because you don’t have forever.” — Spike Jonze
Roger Ebert wrote this after 25 years as a movie critic
The film critic Roger Ebert originally published this piece in 1992 after celebrating his 25th year as a movie critic for the Chicago-Sun Times. He passed away in April 2013. The job of a movie critic is unusual. Instead of spending your time at the office or even at home penning away your […]
Lo and Behold, it’s Werner Herzog talking about technology again
A month after legendary director Werner Herzog inquired about Pokemon GO, he is back with a new movie that questions the entire ethos of the Internet. Is the Internet helping or hurting human relationships? Are we creative as we think we are or will robots think and act superior? The Internet claims to be the […]