After massive delays, but finally, Project 02 Timelapse.
Final project for Year 1 architecture, and as quick as it has begun, it’s over.
First time feeling like an entire year had just flew by.
As much as I love what I’m doing now, I can’t wait for the break. Probably gonna try to pick up screenprinting before internship begins, and hopefully diving as well.
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra.
The Love Competition by Brent Hoff
Not so much about the winners but rather the reactions after the whole thing.
Either I’ve been watching too many videos, or I’ve just had a lucky streak. A fan film based on The Punisher, which I think just bested any movie made about that character.
#dirtylaundry
▲This one is too good to be ignored. Love the comparison, and the movements and atmospheres which link all the way down to the details. Simple but gets the message across.
Alright, I’ll leave the blog to die for a little longer. Have been a little to busy recently to post anything of substance.
Naw, I’m lying. The keyword is procrastination. Well, here are the last few pictures from London, all shot on film. A mix of Agfa and Kodak.
Daily diet when it came to home cooked food. Not really the healthiest, but it definitely tasted the best. Pork loins or beef or chicken everyday, pretty much good filling meat. Ginger ale, the best fizzy drink ever. Cheap Marks & Spencer ginger ale? Even better. The toffee apple cider we picked up a discrete convenient store along the street was amazing as well.
Neil.
Daniel. We got to go for another trip together next time. (Japan, pretty please?)
Some busking folks on the train. They were excellent. Will add on the video in the next edit once Vimeo has it processed. I wish there were more of these kind of things on the local trains. Could do with a little more smiles and a lot less drama.
Neil again.
Couple on the streets early morning. I know a lot of people hate the gray London mood, but I actually love the atmosphere it gives.
Neil caught me staring at this building. Threw in a few comments about being a hipster and seeing the artistic side of things. Snapped a picture of it anyway and shrugged away the comments. It was that red band along the side of the building which caught my attention. I don’t know why, but spent a good half a minute looking at the red band and wondering if anyone out there that morning was wondering the same thing as me at that given moment. There are always these odd incidents which will forever etch in memory, as insignificant as a red band as it can be.
Hyde Park.
Cycling on one of the rental bikes. This one was shot on infinite focus with a countdown timer.
Deck chairs weren’t free, but nothing can ruin a perfect day.
The squirrels there were tame. We tried to get them close with bargain bin, after easter, caramel eggs, but they didn’t particularly like the taste. Suit yourself, the eggs were brilliant stuff.
I’d like to think that at that moment, a whole bunch of angels just took off from their deck chairs.
Bloom was early from what I heard. But still fleetingly beautiful either way.
Brass apparatus in the naval museum. I always can’t remember the exact name of places, like most forgettable locations in a city of concrete blocks. Somehow I always remember the content more.
It’s a lot like people I know. I remember everything else; their looks down to the little details, like the squarish of jaws, to the double eyelid or lack thereof. The little crinkle at the side of the eye when they smile, or the wrinkles on the forehead of the man observing the object behind the glass. The setting of the scene, like drinking 5 glasses of water while talking to someone because I had to stop getting distracted with phone fiddling, the freezing cold room which hid the fact that it was a burning afternoon on the outside. But for my life, I can’t remember names as well. I do remember them in moments, but as fleetingly as they jolt back into memory, they dissolve into the crevasses in my mind.
Tarnish and shine.
Hard to believe that this humble display helped unlock the secrets of the world and guided souls to their fate.
Peering in.
Why.
Of course, there were days I wished I was one of the few which got the chance to explore the unknowns.
▲Animal Planet Refresh
Sooo goood!!!! :)
Still doesn’t save that logo.
This makes me want to learn 3d animation D:
▲So good.
I thought this was a really good, well directed and creative music video with a deeper meaning behind it.
Better than most trash these days.
In reference to the previous post, here’s the stopmotion which the kids did ^^
(Any Sec 1, 2 and 3s reading this, sign up for camp!)
▲On a very unrelated note, I miss this game a lot. Ridge Racer Type 4. It practically made up most of my gaming time when I was a kid, back then when I still had a PS1 (Sadly I no longer have the game nor the console. I remember completing it with every team and drawing out cars just because of this game.
Somehow, despite the shitty graphics back then, I was still rather amazed by the design of the whole game in all, from the intro movie to the way the title screen was in this bold yellow and black font; a minimalistic and neat design. Coupled with the use of light trails and moving dot animations during the selection (And don’t forget, a really awesome soundtrack), I can say it’s probably one of the best games ever, to me.
I hate nostalgia sometimes.
▲Gran Turismo 5 Official Intro Movie (by tbvdb)
The first part is pure genius in my opinion, filming wise, the way they sectioned the credits and the de-focusing. (The mass robotic assembly line was a little unnerving though. The second part wasn’t as good IMO, but sorry, I really love that My Chemical Romance song (Planetary (GO!))
I used to be a racer on the age of PS1 and PS2; played the first Ridge Racer and (If memory serves me right) the first version of Gran Turismo, then later in PS2, both Need For Speed Underground versions; Hot Pursuit on the computer. Probably one of the reasons why I enjoyed racing sports a lot more than team sports.
Watching this really makes me want to get a gaming computer just to go racing all over again.
▲Another of Danny Macaskill’s videos. I’m still rather amazed by the fluidity of his movement and the nice videography and music.
One day I shall get a really wide angle lens. One day.
Two years ago Scottish street trials rider Danny MacAskill was just a guy working a nine-to-five job as a mechanic in an Edinburgh bike shop, crafting his vision of what was possible on a bicycle in the hours after work. In March 2009, he took a risk and left his job to pursue riding full time. A month later his roommate, Dave Sowerby, released a video of MacAskill leaping, flipping, and balancing across Edinburgh’s famous buildings, parks, and back alleys on his bike. No one had seen riding like this before.
The video went viral. First friends and then total strangers forwarded it via email and posted it on Facebook. MacAskill’s audacity, skill, and grace spoke to people, even those who had never heard of the obscure sport of street trials, where bicyclists use existing structures to create physical puzzles that are solved by moving from obstacle to obstacle. Some even chalked MacAskill’s mind-bending moves up to a special effects hoax. The video went on to be viewed 27 million times.
MacAskill could have been a one-hit wonder. But when his 2011 short film Industrial Revolutions—which featured him riding through Scotland’s abandoned factories, leaping between train cars, and riding across two-inch beams suspended 15 feet above concrete—generated three million views on YouTube in a month, he proved he wasn’t. What MacAskill can do on a bicycle, his body shifting, pausing, and then exploding upward in a seamless tangle of man and bike, makes us reimagine our daily environments.
Groundbreaking adventure has always made us examine and then redraw the fine line between the possible and the impossible. Like the great performance artist and tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who captured New Yorkers’ attention with his 1974 walk between the towers of the World Trade Center, MacAskill has taken the the landscapes of his everyday and turned mundane into a physical canvas.
Since 2009, MacAskill has used his newfound fame and monetary support to log over 40,000 miles in an RV, traveling across Scotland looking for the perfect trick in the ideal location.
“I never had the goal of being a professional rider,” says MacAskill. “I just wanted to ride my bike.”
—Fitz Cahall
Really awesome filming and even more awesome skill.
▲Willie Nelson covers Coldplay, with brilliant animation by filmmaker Johnny Kelly (of Procrastination fame), commissioned by Chipotle to emphasize the importance of developing a sustainable food system
Oh shit, this is so beautifully done. The pigs are amusing.
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