Particularly puzzled that 32 people 'dislike' this clip on YouTube.
Thanks to @finnbarrw for yet again digging this one out.
Guy shot a frame every couple of miles all the way from from SF to Paris.
The middle section where he flies through the Northern Lights is more than a little trippy.
Took this yesterday flying in low over Manhattan on way back from Toronto on Air Canada 712.
Not perfect by any means (for example, if I'd have taken it 1.5 seconds later I would have got the Empire State Building mid-picture, as it is now the ESB is blurred).
But shows the potential (& fun) of using Instagram, esp with the new tilt-shift function.
(If Instagram don't send me a t-shirt for this - my 5th post about how awesome they are - I'll switch back to Hipstamatic).
It was only a brief 4-day Springtime fling, but we completely fell in love with Washington DC.
More like Paris or Madrid than New York; a city full of confidence, beauty, grandeur, power and rememberance.
And a completely essential experience on the journey to understand America and Americans.
We'll be back very soon.
Ever one to bore on eternally about things I love, I must admit my love affair with Instagram grows daily. Despite packing a full-size DSLR & a Canon G10 for the slopes, the *only* camera I used on this week's trip to Whistler was the iPhone 4 + Instagram. As I mentioned previously, when I posted an Instagram photo essay of a trip to Tokyo, while the real magic of Instagram is it's social side, for me one thing it lacks (aside from the feature that allows you to post directly to your Flickr) is the ability to produce collections or albums of images. So, again, I put my own together. Here are 20 or so photographs I took with Instagram while I was in Whistler with Ben & Hal this week.
We came off the Peak Express into the most heavenly light. A mix of sun, mist, deep blue sky.
Just below the peak of Whistler Mountain, we came across a Snowy Forest that was so beautiful we stopped and just stared in awe.
(Shot on iPhone 4, via Instagram; Lomo-fi lens)
What do you do if you're stuck in a hotel room with a high-speed camera ...?
(via @finnbarrw - who, if you're not following, you should follow; a mine of awesome finds around photography, especially).
The same Phantom technology is used in this film as we (BBH New York, Google Creative Lab, 1st Avenue Machine) used to create the Google Chrome Speed Tests; see below.
And slightly earlier . . .
I love Instagram.
I love Tokyo.
Here are 60 or so photographs I took with Instagram while I was there this week. While the real magic of Instagram is it's social side, for me one thing it lacks (aside from the feature that allows you to post directly to your Flickr) is the ability to produce collections or albums of images. So I put my own together.
Via @finnbarrw & @kirstinbutler
This is the most awe-inducing, ineffably brilliant film I have seen for a long time. This has been a 'Year of Space' for me (one of the best books I read all year was Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery).
This film is a detailed exploration of the moment The Shuttle (or, more precisely, the STS) takes off, mostly displayed in ultra HD 400fps slow motion film, taken from the dozens of mostly 16mm cameras that surround the Shuttle launch site to monitor the lift-off. The narration throughout describes exactly what we're seeing and why it's happening.
It's both beautiful and somewhat overwhelmingly intense, at the same time (you forget you're watching 400fps too easily). I remember seeing the first Shuttle take off on grainy colour TV, a week after my ninth birthday (I think we had just finished watching some pirated VHS videos on my neighbour's VHS player, which was a novelty in itself). I still think it's a shame it ended up taking cargo to the Space Station versus building a launch platform for something more ambitious, like a manned trip to Mars). Anyway . . .
Here's some more detail from the YouTube page:
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Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center.
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We visited Minnewaska State National Preserve near the Catskills. It was one of those days that's cold yet crisp - we could see for 100 miles.
This might be one of the better shots I've ever taken of Katie (her looking back, sun in background). It looks like she's telling me off. I don't think she is. I think she's just telling me to stop taking pictures. Katie never tells me off.
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More here, if you're still reading.
Taken with a Nikon D90.
Via @finnbarrw
This is apparently just production footage shot over the summer.
Full details here. Film out in 2011.
(Thanks to @finnbarrw for the tip off)
Everything about this film - the stunning (underwater) photography, melancholy music, & the honest, almost too-raw delivery of the voiceover, make this, for me anyway, a magical piece of art.
"For everything that brought us to that moment on earth, at that moment in time . . . to do something worth remembering, with a photograph, or a scar".
Humbling stuff.
(Once again via @finnbarrw - if you're not following him on Twitter you really should)
View in HD and full-screen for full magical effect.
There's a really excellent interview with Sam O'Hare here about the new film, how it was done and so on; worth the read: http://j.mp/aNE701 (via @finnbarrw)
Director: Sam O'Hare
Original music by Human (humanworldwide.com)
Composer: Matthew O'Malley
Music Producer/CD: Mike Jurasits
EP: Marc Altshuler
3 years, 45,000 photos.
The last 20 seconds plays all 3 years.
(via @finnbarrw)
