I’m not sure why I felt so uncomfortable while watching this video. Perhaps it was due to the somewhat human face of the washing machine. I couldn’t look away as it slowly destroyed itself, at times proud, at times scared. The machines are alive I tell ya.
Everyone can use a little more Michael Jackson in their life. That’s why you need to watch these two videos of first a squirrel dancing to Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough and then a traffic cop dancing to Billie Jean. Just don’t watch them at work as you’ll burst out laughing.
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen today. The guy who sold the infamous ShamWow is now pushing a new product called the Schticky, which you can buy in a jiffy (his words not mine). Source.
About a month ago I had the great fortune to watch Louis C.K. in concert at the Beacon Theater. He was amazing as usual. Full of fresh material and comedy that made my cheeks hurt so much from laughing that at points I just wanted him to stop talking so I could get a break.
This Saturday Louis C.K. is making his entire comedy special available to download and stream for only $5. The cost is well worth the comedy. I’m sure I’ll be getting my hands on this special to rewatch his jokes.
To help promote his upcoming release Louis posted an out-take clip from his special. He talks about evolution and the oddities of human beings. Watch the clip below and be sure to grab the special on Saturday.
Source: Videogum
I spent most of my Sunday cutting together a new behind the scenes clip for my friends’ film, Charlie Christ: The Gospel According to Fools.
This is the first clip that I used some Creative Commons music and I think the result came out very nicely. Simply adding some music to the video added a great deal of excitement and flair and helped me obtain a level of quality that I don’t think I’ve hit before.
It was cut in Final Cut Pro X and I took full advantage of all of its new features, such as magnetic snap and clip connections. I’m so much more fluent with FCPX than I was with Final Cut Pro 7. Sure I didn’t spend that much time trying to learn FCP7 but then again the program didn’t make it particularly fun and interesting to learn.
The video is below. Have a look and let me know what you think.
Darren Aronofsky is a terrific director, able to capture obscene moments of human existence on film that make you cringe.
So it comes to no surprise that the Anti-Meth PSAs he directed are equally disturbing as his films.
Watch the first ad below. Warning: it’s very disturbing. Hit the link after to see all three videos.
Watching this video makes me feel incredible small and full of awe. Real, truthful, awe at how large the Earth is and how much we have yet to discover.
The stars in this video seem almost touchable and the Earth and everybody living on it seem so incredibly small.
I strongly urge you to take 5 minutes out of your day to watch this video. It is truly jaw-dropping.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
Over the weekend I acted as a camera operator. I took on this role to help film a few scenes from a movie my friends are making called Charlie Christ: The Gospel According to Fools. You can click to see the movie’s trailer page (which I made) and the movie’s trailer as well.
The shoot was a resounding success! We started at 11:30am and finished at 11:30pm. It was a long day but completely worth it. We got so many hard shots done and had a fun time doing it as well.
Towards the end of the day my fingers were beginning to cramp up from constantly readjusting the tripod. Also my eyes were beginning to lose the ability to focus properly, which wouldn’t allow me to properly focus the camera. Thankfully I never hit that wall and we were able to get all our filming done.
The day’s shoot was filmed on my Nikon D7000 (which I’ve written about before). At the beginning of the day I ran out to get a second battery for my camera. I’m very glad that I did: we ended up swapping batteries four times to get everything on film.
The movie is almost done! Rest assured you’ll hear more as we near the release date.
Over the weekend I was in New York City with my girlfriend for my birthday present: a wine and pizza tasting class at New York Vintners. It was an awesome present. We each got served 7 glasses of wine paired with 3 different flat-bread pizzas. The wine was great and the pizza was delicious. (The best pizza was one with Boursin cheese, mushrooms, and truffle oil. Delicious.)
Before our class began we walked a few blocks down to Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Plaza. That was an interesting scene.
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Today I’m doing some video editing work in Final Cut Pro X. One of the neatest things about Final Cut Pro X is when you import media into an Event, FCPX automatically begins to transcode your media into Apple ProRes 422.
This is great because when you edit your movie, and all your media is in the same video format, it makes the whole experience much easier and faster to use.
Rendering time to apply special effects is cut down. So is cutting clips and rearranging them. Everything works better.
The one down side to transcoding your media is the extreme toll it takes on your computer’s CPU. In certain configurations it’s enough to make the rest of your system unusable while you transcode.
Fortunately I’m equipped with a 2GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro with 8GB of DDR3 RAM. This makes the entire experience of transcoding much easier.
However it does amuse me how much FCPX sucks down CPU resources when it transcodes.
Case in point:
