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“The Art of Steadicam” from Refocused Media
Refocused Media has put together an homage video to the 50 “best” shots made possible since the Steadicam was invented by Garrett Brown in the early 1970’s, based on the database compiled at SteadiShots.org. It’s a fun video, and makes you realize how much more is possible with the invention of the Steadicam. The Art of Steadicam from Refocused Media […]
Film-versus-digital documentary ‘Side by Side’ now streaming on Netflix..
If you’re even a little interested in the debate about the respective merits of film and digital cinematography, you should take a look at Christopher Kenneally and Keanu Reeves’s 2012 documentary Side by Side on Netflix this weekend. The movie saw a limited theatrical release last year, and is already out on iTunes and Amazon Instant Video, but now there’s […]
Growing Our Own is awarded Special Jury Award for Human Rights at the Oxford Film Festival!
We had a BLAST at this years Oxford Film Festival showing ‘Growing Our Own!‘ And were super honored and excited when Growing Our Own was awarded the Special Jury Award for Human Rights! Thank you Oxford Film Festival! #OxFF13!
The Cure, Tim Pope, and Lego
Director Tim Pope did a lot of music videos for The Cure, “around 37” in fact. I always was intrigued by his work: it’s lushness and tonality, as well as their fantastical imaginative ways of telling a story (the swinging camera for Inbetween Days! The herk-jerky sped up/slow down of Neil Young’s “Wonderin’”!) They were pretty much the perfect creative […]
This – looks very interesting! Finding Vivian Maier.
Finding Vivian Maier. In 2007 Chicago 26-year-old real estate agent (and president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society) John Maloof walked into an auction house and placed a $380 bid on a box of 30,000 prints and negatives from an unknown photographer. Realizing the street photographs of 1950s/60s era Chicago and New York were of unusually high quality he purchased […]