Posts from the category Video
Rear Window Timelapse
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Compiled time-lapse sequence of the courtyard view from Hitchcock film “Rear Window”.
Cornwall Summer
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Beautiful time-lapse films from the south west of England by Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi.
Jaw-dropping aerial views of Switzerland
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A twenty minute film in association with Swiss Tourism, showing tremendous aerial views from around Switzerland.
The photographic ad with no Photoshop
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British photographer “Miss Anelia” produced surreal and highly-detailed fashion images to advertise the new Nikon D810, without the use of Photoshop.
Parcours on the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern
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Être Fort (“Be Strong”) parcours athlete Simon Gfeller crosses the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern the hard way: by hand, across the underside of the iron framework.
Mind-bending planetary panoramas
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Seen plenty of time lapses involving star trails and motion effects? You won’t have seen anything like this sequence by photographer Vincent Brady.
Jemima’s Journey Through Switzerland
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British Pathé was a leading news service in the earlier part of the twentieth century, when people would visit a picture house (or cinema) to see the latest news reels, instead of seeing them in the comfort of their own homes. British Pathé completed their YouTube channel this week and amongst around 85,000 films now online
At the heart of the Léman
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Léman is the original (some would say “correct”) name for what most of the rest of the world knows as Lake Geneva. It’s one of the most varying beautiful and vibrant regions of Switzerland, with a seemingly endless range of castles, vineyards, lakes and mountains. The local tourism organizations certainly had a lot to work
Winter street parades
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If standing around in the street and drinking far too much whilst being bombarded with confetti, to the accompaniment of popular tunes being played by an inebriated brass band in eyeball-searing fancy dress doesn’t appeal, then there’s always an alternative to the traditional winter Fasnacht carnivals: the Fire Parade in Liestal. I wrote about Chienbäse (the
Grindelwald in the “good old days”
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Travellers, historians and winter sport fanatics (and those of us who are less fanatic but still enjoy the mountains) will love this old film by Ronald Haines, shot in 1956 in the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald and on the surrounding mountains. (Link via Grindelwald Tourism on Facebook.)
Mountains of Valais
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A wonderful time-lapse sequence from the southern borders with Italy, ranging from the Nufenen Pass to Zermatt and the Matterhorn. Film maker Christian Mülhauser writes: Through fog, rain, snow and even wind gusts of up to 120 km/h I am happy to have completed this project. Mountains of Valais is by far my most time
Filming from the air
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Sitting at my computer this afternoon, I spot, out of the window, a yellow plane droning lazily around above the village. Not a full-sized plane but a metre-long radio-controlled model, with a GoPro camera attached, filming today’s glorious winter day on the lake. I couldn’t resist taking a few photos for the pilot and chatting
Pale Blue Eyes
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An excerpt from photographer Laura Levine’s unreleased underground Super-8 film, Just Like A Movie, featuring Michael Stipe.
Dreaming of flight
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U.K. band Rudimental chose to film a large amount of the video for their recent release “Free” in the Swiss Jungfrau Region.
A Perfect Day
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I like it when there is a lot of contrast between subjects in an image or film, or conflicting imagery vs. mood. Such as in the case of this recent advert for the Playstation games console, in which “participants” in “games” sing about how much they’re enjoying the experience.
For The Love Of Mountains
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A beautiful little sequence by motion designer Al Boardman to represent some statistics from mountains around the world. Found via fubiz.net.
