Less than 24 hours to go. Today is going to be rough.
Let me know if you live on the tour route. I’ll hand out photo passes in exchange for clean socks or homemade food.
Way, way bad ass. Google has teamed up with Arcade Fire and video director Chris Milk to make a crazy interactive video for their song We Used To Wait, set… on the street you grew up on.
The video gathers up a whole bunch of crazy aerial and street-level panoramas of your street from Google’s satellite spy cam gizmos, and HTML5 video is constructed on the fly, dynamically layering in elements of the music video over your intimately familiar scenery.
There’s no google magic at any of my Wisconsin addresses, but my mind is still pretty blown.
Today, we are testing my faith in the Gorillapod Focus.
…cable companies lost 711,000 subscribers, which represents the biggest quarterly loss in cable TV’s history. Six out of eight cable TV operators also reported their worst subscriber losses ever last quarter.
Here comes the part where network executives get to play “shocked and surprised” and never really realize that they don’t run shit anymore.
This is a campaign commercial airing on primetime television in Miami. It pretty much sums up my reasons for leaving the Miami production scene.
Lots of people hate Motion, and would choose AE over it any day. The biggest benefit of Motion is the tight integration with Final Cut Pro, which allows you to drop Motion files directly into timelines.
When I have a compositing project that I know Motion can handle, It’s convenient to duplicate the clip, then do a right click->”send to Motion project”. This makes the clip into its own motion project, and every time you save it in Motion, your changes get reflected in FCP. This saves you the trouble of rendering out, and matching settings between Motion and the FCP timeline. I also use Motion to build lower third (and occasional fullscreen title) templates which get saved directly to FCP, where they can be applied to a timeline with editable text. This beats the shit out of doing a different AE render for each lower third.
I’m shooting everything I can possibly shoot, so I can become one with the 1D before tour starts. Today, I got some fun freerunning shots in Santa Monica. Check out my Flickr stream for more.
As it turns out, Santa Monica has a British candy store.
I don’t know.
I had a fun side project today. The goal was to uncheck a couple checkboxes on a document and recheck some other boxes. It wouldn’t have been an issue with a still image (or some foresight while making the prop), but my subject was floating around and getting covered by fingers and stuff.
I used Apple Motion to clone, track and shift the boxes around. Overall, the shot came out pretty well, given the limited time I had to work with it.
After Effects Doodle: Day 1 (510 shoes)
Next week, Sean needs to After-Effects me a tan.
