SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL from Diesel New Voices on Vimeo.

Playground

Really nice video produced by burn, they produce videos with amazing visuals and this one really shows an insight into this remarkable talent. Its really innovative how he uses the urban backdrop as a playground for seeking new sounds.

Burn Ignite presents :: PLAYGROUND :: Julius Wright a.k.a Lyrical God from Burn Ignite on Vimeo.

Julius Wright a.k.a Lyrical God sees the world as a "playground". Julius is a 21-year-old Philadelphian beat/rap artist, a combination of urban percussionist and MC, whose exceptional talents combine to deliver a moving and sometimes brutal street soundscape.

Anything he can pen-tap or beat on is used for his music - stop signs, trash cans, post boxes - the city of Philadelphia becomes a re-appropriated soundboard reflecting the rhythm of his life.

Wright picked up a pen and started tapping on his school desk in the eighth grade and has now grown from the street to the studio. Julius tells us the city made him who he is, he in turn has remade the city, digging out its hidden rhythms and reaching out to its people.

This film was created alongside two other Burn productions, one a film portrait featuring Jess Kimura and the all-girl hardcore snowboarding film collective Peep Show, and the other a short film collaboration on the ultimate Mexico City street skate, featuring LA legend Steve Berra.

Burn Studios, aka Burn music, seeks to highlight individuals passion for what they do by exploring how they channel their energies in music.

Diary of a disappointed book.

Really like this short film the shots that are done really well, an insight into the life of this book, lovely piece.

The Diary of a Disappointed Book from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

This short film tells a disappointing year in the life of a book. Though they might often be our most treasured possessions, it is remarkable how easily books can be neglected, mistreated and sometimes even lost.

Its been long time since i posted something on this blog, starting to put things that inspire me again.

Getting a DSLR soon so going to start making my own video soon, cant wait.

For the time being here is a video that moved me emotionley, really well done.

MOMENTOS from Nuno Rocha on Vimeo.

This is a short-film I wrote and directed for LG Portugal. The concept, "Life's good" was the main purpose of this work.

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Paul Graham Photography.

Photography taken from the exhibition's: Troubled land,Beyond caring,The great North Road. really like these documentary style photographs. good inspiration for town city brief as they nicely document city life and people.

Really liked the ideas behind these films.

People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo.

Human Beings. 1-100

This is first in a series of four films – People In Order – commissioned by the UK’s Channel 4 in 2006. The concept behind our films was simple: we asked ourselves if you can reveal something about life by simply arranging people according to scales. Three minutes is a very short time to communicate something – perhaps too short to tell a story, or to get to know a character – so we wanted to make this series by setting ourselves some very straightforward rules, and then following them through over a long trip. The rules had to be simple so it would take the audience virtually no time to understand them. We established what scales we’d look at, and then chose how each film would be framed. Then it was a case of getting in a campervan and driving round Britain, filming as many people as we could over 4 weeks in February, coping with microphones crackling and our camera refusing to work.

The experience was exhausting but also life affirming. In our whole trip we were struck by how happy people were to help. Only a handful of our shoots were arranged in advance. We relied instead on the kindness of strangers - and we found that everywhere, from deprived urban estates to rural aristocrats.

The resulting films are like a list of government statistics where the citizens they are referring to have broken out from behind the figures on the page. The people on the screen stop us from seeing them as numbers. Even in single second bursts there are worlds of personality stretching out in front of us. The films are really about our awe at how big life is, infinite in its variety, even when it seems just normal to each of us living it.

People In Order: 2. Birth from James Price on Vimeo.

34 Women arranged by length of pregnancy. (weeks 4-41)

People In Order: 3. Love from James Price on Vimeo.

48 couples arranged by length of relationship. (in descending order)

People In Order: 4. Home from James Price on Vimeo.

73 Households arranged by income. (£400,000 - £3,240)

Dublin's people, shot really nicely and edited really well, use of close ups and focus pulling all slowed down to create an atmosphere that is probably abundant in dublin... very nice given me ideas for shooting people in small town/big town.. cheers Philip bloom.

Dublin's People: Canon 7d 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Filmed at the end of the 2 day F-Stop Academy Cinematography workshop in Dublin when we were in wind down mode. Shot on a pre-production Canon 7d.

I took the Canon 7d, Zacuto Tactical rig, Z-Finder V2 and one lone lens, a Canon 35mm f1.4, which becomes more like a 50mm lens on the 7d. So a bit like what I did with Sofia's People (but I didn't have the Zacuto rig for that).

I shot 1/50th of a second as I was shooting 24p and to match the 50hz frequency of the artificial all around me in Temple Bar.

I also shot some stuff 720p 50p with shutter at 1/100th to get the slow motion shots of the juggler which were conformed to 23.98p in Cinema tools to create the beautiful slow motion.

Sound on the last bit was just the internal mono cam mic as I didn't want a big mic on top of the camera.

Another brilliant edit by Philip bloom.

San Francisco's People. Canon 5DmkII 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Shot on 5DmkII with 50mm F1.2 and Zacuto Z-Finder

Music is Taxi Driver by Bernard Herrmann

Shot at 30p and conformed with Cinema Tools to 24p.

Check out my blog: www.philipbloom.co.uk for more info