ASU won three consecutive Division 1-AA National Championships in 2005, 2006, & 2007. This program exemplifies what we love about collegiate athletics in the South. The film goes behind the scene of the Mountaineers 2008 season.
A friend of mine (Sibbles) brought this to my attention…this is really cool. It forces you to pull a stupid-face. You can’t help but to smile. Keith Loutit was shooting for a project he was working on in Sydney, Austrailia. He kindly put out a couple of clips of his work for us to check out. The style is achieved with a “tilt-shift” lens that (as Kevin explained) is used on vertical shots like tall buildings, bridges, etc. Keith has found a style of his own with this technique. I assume that the images are over-saturated to give it that “plastic” look. It seems to be still images in sequence, but I can’t tell at what frame rate.
Click on the “HD” button, it will take you to Keith’s Vimeo page and you can view it in high def. Leave him a comment. Good stuff here.
“The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmaker Margaret Brown (”Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt”), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parrallet hearts of the city’s two carnivals. With unprecedented access, she traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historcal violence and power dynamics, elusive forces that keep this hallowed tradition organized along enduring color lines.” – theorderofmyths.com
“When art student Ben Willis dumps his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia after finding out how quickly she moved on. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own ‘art’ in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben’s art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it – especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben’s insomnia.” Written by Winnie Li===Corrected by Kate
Directed by Dana Brown, the same guy that brought us, more recently, “Highwater”. This film is really a heart-warming type depiction of surfers and why they do what they do. There is great segment at about 1 min 13 secs about a break 100 miles off of the california coast in the middle of the ocean called “Cortes”. I would guess that this is about were the continental shelf would be. Anyway, the waves are huge (70+ feet) and it is almost scary to watch.
Here is a review from IMDB.com:
“Before seeing this film, I was wary of a surfing movie made by the son of Bruce Brown, who made the famous surfing movie “The Endless Summer” something like 30 years ago. I expected that the son, Dana, would just be cashing in on his semi-famous name. But, those worries were unfounded. This documentary exudes a powerful love of and respect for the ocean. The surfing footage is unbelievable, it puts most special effects to shame, yet this is the real thing. The stunning cinematography complements the fabulous editing. I was spellbound. It’s not often that I come away from watching a movie feeling exhilaration, awe, amazement. One word of advice — watch it on the biggest, best screen you can find. ”
What a great film! It is a documentary of the history of surfing and it’s characters. This video is from google video and is the entire film. Check it out! It is over an hour long, so make sure you have time to watch.
“A semiserious, often rollicking, multigenerational insider’s look at the origins of surfing, the colorful and subversive birth of surf culture, and the mythology and lure of the big wave. This passionate and fluid film is without question the first authentic history of surfing from its humble Hawaiian beginnings to the big business it became to the still-rebellious universe it inhabits today. Riding Giants is a study in individuality and freedom, the pursuit and techniques of pure kinetic pleasure, and the risk taking and attitudes that characterize its leading figures. For some viewers, this is perhaps more than they ever wanted to know. But Peralta’s detailed knowledge of the surfing lifestyle, its icons and locations, its boom and exploitation by the media, and the fascination it has held for young men for more than five decades is unparalleled and fuels this expedition for the expert and initiate alike. Closely chronicling the sometimes-life-and-death drama that big-wave riding entails, Riding Giants is an often-mesmerizing visual thrill ride. But the most appealing aspect of this often revelatory documentary is the realization that the man versus nature dialectic never ends; the search for the ultimate wave and the spiritual pinnacle can only be pursued but never reached.” Written by Sujit R. Varma
This is some test footage from a DVX100 camera. I went down the hallway at work, and back…hence the title.
My short film “Steal My Heart” premieres tonight at 7pm and 8:20pm at Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile.
