Compelling HDV: Post your links

[Scott Brady]

This? http://www.vimeo.com/19584946

Yeah, don't know why it did not embed. . .

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Sick!! Love Jimmy!!

That video was beyond beautiful!! Love his work!

 

[Scott Brady]

[video=vimeo;24456787]http://vimeo.com/24456787[/video]

 

[nwoods]

Yeah, that's nice Scott. A bit repetitive. You can only absorb so much spellbinding beauty and scenery . I loved that location of that little cabin/barn at 1:22 into the video. Now THAT is a room with a view!

Edit: watched it on Vimeo, and enjoyed the write up with the backstory that went into obtaining the footage for that clip:

This was filmed between 29th April and 10th May 2011 in the Arctic, on
the archipelago Lofoten in Norway.

My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists I am none the wiser.What I am talking about I have decided to call The Arctic Light and it is a natural phenomenon occurring 2-4 weeks before you can see the Midnight Sun.

The Sunset and Sunrise are connected in one magnificent show of color and light lasting from 8 to 12 hours. The sun is barely going below the horizon before coming up again. This is the most colorful light that I know, and the main reason I have been going up there for the last 4 years, at the exact
same time of year, to photograph. Based on previous experience, I knew this was going to be a very
difficult trip. Having lost a couple of cameras and some other equipment up there before, it was crucial to bring an extra set of everything. I also
made sure I had plenty of time in case something went wrong.
If you can imagine roping down mountain cliffs, or jumping around on slippery rocks covered in seaweed with 2 tripods, a rail, a controller,
camera, lenses, filters and rigging for 4-5 hour long sequences at a time, and then
having to calculate the rise and fall of the tides in order to capture the essence - it all prved bit of a challenge.

And almost as if planned, the trip would turn out to become very
difficult indeed. I had numerous setbacks including: airline lost my
luggage, struggling to swim ashore after falling into the Arctic sea: twice, breaking lenses, filters, tripod, computer, losing the whole dolly rig and controller into the sea, and even falling off a rather tall rock and ending
up in the hospital. As much as I wanted to give up, the best way Out is
always “Through”. I am glad I stuck it through though because there were some amazing sunrises waiting. At 1:06 you see a single scene from day to night to day.

I asked the very talented Marika Takeuchi to specifically compose and
perform a song for this movie, and what she came up with is absolutely remarkable. Thank you very much Marika!

 

[Viggen]

[video]http://blog.1aauto.com/2011/07/14/this-is-what-owning-a-car-for-40-years-is-like/[/video]

 

[nwoods]

Nice find Viggen. Man do I hope I look that healthy at that age.

 

[Viggen]

Nice find Viggen. Man do I hope I look that healthy at that age.

Forget the age. I just hope to have a car that I love enough to keep that long. I think I have it in the 60 but who knows.

 

[nwoods]

Not expo related in the slightest, but pretty entertaining, and really well shot and edited. Gotta love the 3 minute movie genre

http://vimeo.com/13639493

 

[ywen]

I just returned on Friday from a 3 weeks China trip. Inspired after seeing a vimeo fellow's japan vacation video, and I wanted to do one of my own. Took a Panasonic GH1 with 20mm + 14-42mm lenses, and shot run n' gun style video. Actually shot more video than stills for the first time ever. Couldn't sleep last night due to jet lag so I sat down and did a quick edit..

 

[Lost Canadian]

For a "quick edit," that was pretty tight! Looked like it a killer trip.

 

[nwoods]

Couldn't sleep last night due to jet lag so I sat down and did a quick edit..

Much respect! Just separating out the sound track from that couple wailing (singing?) by the water into background music would have taken me a week to edit Were the mountain sequences shown after that shot at Tiger Leaping Gorge?

 

[Every Miles A Memory]

Trevor, you took the words right out of my mouth!

If that's your quick edit mode, I'd take your skills any day! Looked like an amazing trip, thanks for sharing

 

[ywen]

Thanks!

nwoods: The mountains at the end is Mt. HuangShan. It's a sister park to Yosemite. Some of the bamboo scenes from Crouching tiger hidden dragon was actually shot at the foot of the mountain. Gorgeous moutains, but like most places in China, hordes of people..

It really takes a lengthy visit to China to be able to come back to U.S.A and appreciate the lifestyle here. Solitude and freedom of travel is hard to find in most of China.

 

[ywen]

Wow !

 

[ywen]