Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
Trouble in Boro Olympus is a short form TV pilot for The Triboro, an episodic one hour dramatic series about a group of youth in The Triboro (Olympus, Black Mountain & White Valley) that join forces and stand up to the ring of corruption that has taken control of their towns. It’s a suspenseful, noir, epic, and doesn’t neglect all the teenage stuff that keeps things honest:
Are online pilots set to become the future of television?
With quality like this, I sure don’t see why not.
Ryan Cashman also has a lot of time.
By taking tons of 20-30 second long exposures using his DSLR, and then stringing them together in a time lapse/stop motion fashion, he was able to create a fantastic video using nothing more than a green LED keychain, a camera, and time.
See for yourself:
[Via: Gizmodo]
Darcy Prendergast’s Off The Rails is a fantastic short about “all the crazy people met on public transportation”.
It’s done in stop motion claymation, and the lighting, tone, and color are all fantastically original and engaging.
Since Off The Rails has been on YouTube since October of ‘06, but has only managed a mere 20,000+ views, I’m going to call it an undiscovered gem of the ‘Tubes.
Enjoy:
Mark of the Eagle is a series of webisodes sponsored by the USPS (Yes, you read that correctly; not the brown guys, but the United States Post Office) that emphasize the fact that they deliver…no matter what.
In the first episode, “a letter carrier discovers powerful forces lurking around the cubicles of an ordinary office building, he must find it in himself to overcome these forces and deliver… no matter what”:
There are three more episodes if you like what you see, and if you watch them on MarkOfTheEagle.com, you can even watch them in a widescreen YouTube player that I’ve never seen before, so check it out, and see what the mark is all about.
[Via: NOTCOT]
How do you promote a new pair of Adidas skate shoes?
If you said crazy video with furries running around looking for an Adidas store, give yourself a pat on the back, because you’re correct (and crazy).
Click through for the video and more from Sieben & Friends.
[Via: Juxtapoz]
This is Hamburg is a fantastic stop motion movie of two guys showing off their city through the windshield of their car.
The camera setup was a Canon EOS 40D with a Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm lens on a Manfrotto tripod fixed with seatbelts in the rear seat of a BMW 635 CSI. AV mode was used with a fixed manual focus set to 1M at f/6.3, and triggered automatically by a TC-80N3 set to 8-second intervals.
In all, there are roughly four hundred frames in the movie, with plenty of scenery to keep you entertained, so travel from the comfort of your own chair with This is Hamburg.
[Via: NOTCOT]
The Disposable Film Festival celebrates the artistic potential of disposable video: Short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices.
As new media and the rise of online distribution continue to change the video landscape, the Disposable Film Festival serves to highlight some of the best work currently being made, and hopefully inspire the growth and development of future work as well.
Take one part Legos, add in The Simpsons, and finish it off with a dash of stop motion, and you’ll soon be enjoying one tasty video:
[Via: Boing Boing]
It’s supposed to be a Bullit remake (the site’s in French) but regardless of what it’s supposed to be, a black Ferrari F430 chasing an orange Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera through the streets of Paris is definitely something to be seen and heard:
[Via: NOTCOT]
There’s nothing more American than getting together at the local fairgrounds and smacking some old cars together for the entertainment of others.
However, when you slow this Redneck rumble down and view a demolition derby in super slow motion, it turns into a ballet of metal and mayhem that’s actually rather beautiful to watch:
Plus, watching in slow motion as cars literally mount one another adds just enough cringe to make it enjoyable at the expense of others.
[Via: Jalopnik]
