Category Archives: film / movies

PIXEL :: the world gets cubed

Beautifully executed pixel takeover of NYC, and then the world. If you like retro arcade games mixed with real-world footage in a fantastical mashup. Then you’ll love this. Ensure a full-screen view, wait for it to load and then hit play. The lovely Rachael sent this.
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GPS chairs tell a story in NYC

Blu Dot inspired by the furniture finding scene of NYC (called ‘curb mining’). Dropped 25 Real Good Chairs in NYC to see what would happen. This video is what they discovered. When I first moved to Bondi collecting furniture from the street was the only way I could furnish my place. You’d see me carrying [...]
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Thoughts on augmented storytelling

Jen Wilson, of The Project Factory, presented ideas and realities of the mobile web at the ADMA class I tutor. Amongst other brilliant things we were shown this clip – HP MScape game prototype. The clip got me thinking. Story writing comes to life through a variety of mediums. A book, allows you to get [...]
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Lucky Country site live

Footprint Films engaged us to develop the digital strategy for their upcoming “Australian western thriller” release Lucky Country. Today we launched the first part of that strategy – the website & blog. Courtney, Cate and Nick (at Liquidshape who designed and built it) have all put in the hours to turn it around in record [...]
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Short film feeling_lonely? by Rachael Turk

Watch this short film (10mins) in HD. It’s with great pleasure that I finally share Rachael’s film ‘feeling_lonely?’ which she wrote and directed. feeling_lonely? : Rob is “the man who has everything” (and everyone). But when 45-y-o ‘Mother Manchester’ catches his eye online, he gets more action than he bargained for. I’ve been fighting with [...]
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24hrs of geotagged photos on flickr

64,000+ photos highlight cities and countries on a moving globe over 24hrs. Best watched full screen. First found on FlowingData and the clips author is here.
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Stop-frame helicopter sea rescue

Great stop-frame story of a fisherman’s rescue from the rocks near Tamarama beach by photographer Keith Loutit. The photo effect makes the people seem like plastic figurines in a diorama. I’ve found a few tutorials on how to make this effect with stills photography on Digg.
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Light playing with sparklers

Like writing your name in lights, well kind of, you know when you grab a sparkler and frantically shift it around until your message is scared on your retina? Well here is a movie dedicated to that pastime. With the amount of views its received it would seem I’m a bit slow in discovering it. [...]
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Video footage with animated blend

Just found this great clip on Vimeo. Wanted to share. Despite the work looking familiar I don’t recognise the artists name: ljudbilden. Visit their blog for more rich artworks and videos. Minilogue – Animals from ljudbilden on Vimeo.
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Addictive TV remix Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle’s masterpiece gets mashed and mixed by the Addictive TV crew…
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Interview with Marc Forster, Director of Quantum of Solace

Rachael Turk (my better half) interviews the director of the new Bond film, Marc Forster. It’s the first time that Inside Film have created a video interview and published straight to web.
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MIFFed

It was my birthday last week and as a surprise Rach flew me to Melbourne for MIFF. MIFF stands for Melbourne international film festival. I forgot how much I love Melbourne. Intimate bars, incredible food and interesting individuals from all walks of life. Didn’t do nearly enough, but we had a good go. Saw just [...]
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Addictive TV remix Iron Man

Addictive TV give the Iron Man movie their particular style of remix mashup bootleg that they’re famous for. I know that New Line Cinema got them to mixup Shoot Em Up and Snakes On A Plane [below]. But I wonder if Paramount commissioned them to do Iron Man? Of course the marketers wet dream is [...]
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iTunes Movie Rentals a point of view

This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #107 (download pdf) March 2008 edition. Following the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals. iDistribute Australian consumers are not just at the end of the food chain, they’re part of it – iTunes ready or not. In mid-January at Macworld, Apple launched iTunes Movie [...]
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