Posts about Video

  • Danny Macaskill on the Cuillin Ridgeline

    “The Ridge” is the brand new film from mountain-biker Danny Macaskill. For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland to take on a death-defying ride along the notorious Cuillin Ridgeline. Even if you’re not fussed about…

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  • Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

    Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

    I’m not especially knowledgeable about aircraft but there’s something about plane flypasts which give me goosebumps.

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  • Rear Window Timelapse

    Rear Window Timelapse

    Compiled time-lapse sequence of the courtyard view from Hitchcock film “Rear Window”.

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  • Cornwall Summer

    Beautiful time-lapse films from the south west of England by Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi.

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  • Farnborough Air Show

    Farnborough Air Show

    The Red Arrows perform at the 2014 Farnborough Air Show.

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  • Jaw-dropping aerial views of Switzerland

    A twenty minute film in association with Swiss Tourism, showing tremendous aerial views from around Switzerland.

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  • The photographic ad with no Photoshop

    British photographer “Miss Anelia” produced surreal and highly-detailed fashion images to advertise the new Nikon D810, without the use of Photoshop.

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  • Parcours on the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern

    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.

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  • Mind-bending planetary panoramas

    Seen plenty of time lapses involving star trails and motion effects? You won’t have seen anything like this sequence by photographer Vincent Brady.

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  • Jemima’s Journey Through Switzerland

    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…

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  • At the heart of the Léman

    At the heart of the Léman

    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…

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  • Grindelwald in the “good old days”

    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.)

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  • Your 2013

    Your 2013

    It’s wasn’t just me who released a review of 2013 this week: Google has too. Their Zeitgeist film of 2013 shows what the world was looking for online this year.

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  • Filming from the air

    Filming from the air

    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…

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  • Pale Blue Eyes

    Pale Blue Eyes

    An excerpt from photographer Laura Levine’s unreleased underground Super-8 film, Just Like A Movie, featuring Michael Stipe.

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  • A Perfect Day

    A Perfect Day

    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.

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  • For The Love Of Mountains

    For The Love Of Mountains

    A beautiful little sequence by motion designer Al Boardman to represent some statistics from mountains around the world. Found via fubiz.net.

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  • To Applecross via the Pass of the Cattle

    The winding and bumpy single-track mountain road leading to the hamlet of Applecross, on Scotland’s west coast, is quite a thrill.

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  • The perils of a non-independent web

    Jeremy Keith highlights the dangers of placing your valuable data and creative efforts in the hands of larger companies, out of your control.

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  • Unexpected locations

    Unexpected locations

    Brooke Shaden is a wonderfully creative photographer, whose images make me wish that I had the opportunity to spend more time on creating and editing more theatrical images. But I can’t complain; my time is, after all, spent on pursuing other passions and fascinating goals. One of the problems I came across when shooting for…

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  • Top of the world

    Top of the world

    Reknowned photographer Joe McNally ascends to the very top of the tallest man-made structure in the world… to say he’s been and to take some portraits while he’s there. Why just take a photo of the view when you can tell a story of the people that work there?

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