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Some people just know how to make cinema.
‘Back to Solitude’, a short film by Joschka Laukeninks.
Wow. I’ve thought a lot about cinematography and lighting over the last couple of days, and how to raise the quality bar on our projects here at Dunya. This film not only delivers on the promise of beautiful imagery in a DSLR/digital-filmmaking world, but takes everything to the next level, from music to casting to structure and beyond.
Five days of shooting, six months of post-production, and some quintessential überdeutsch narrator voice that almost rivals Werner Herzog.
Watch this film. Love it. Then check out Joschka’s Vimeo page for another short and a bunch of video goodness.
I made a new episode of Overshare! Made one before this too that I absolutely couldn’t post, this is a re-shoot of that that I almost didn’t post, but a whole bunch of editing ended up making it totally watchable. So here it is! Enjoy and please share/reblog :)
New Overshare! This one’s called ‘Focus’. You know what would make my day? You watching it.
I’m actually going to try and take my own advice here and make another Overshare in, y’know, less than two months.
Enjoy and please re-blog!
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New Overshare!!! WE BACK, WE GLOBAL! I don’t know what that means.
But school is over, and Overshare is back! So Enjoy. And please share it on Facebook, Twitter, and reblog this post: I’m worried no one will watch this since it’s been two months, and I feel like the subject matter beyond the jokes is something we all deal with in a big way nowadays.
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If you look out of the window as a human being, at nature, all of nature is unconditionally and absolutely beautiful. Whatever it is. Whether it’s a jungle, a desert, the arctic waste, or your own backyard, the only ugly things you will ever see are things made by man. And if, from your earliest age looking at the world you see yourself as a member of a species that can only uglify and spoil the world, it gives what psychiatrists would call a deep sense of guilt. And guilt, as anyone knows, is the major cause of aggression. That’s why you get violent. Because you’re guilty. You feel worthless. And you feel worthless if you don’t believe you’re part of a species that is actually capable of creating beauty. Which we are. In terms of architecture, music, painting, and all kinds of things, beauty is possible. And is good.
So on Sunday morning, I saw musician/singer/actor/Top-Youtuber Chester See tweet out that he was, for some reason, in my city (Surrey), all the way from LA.
Now, I follow nearly 1000 people, so my timeline moves pretty fast. I would’ve missed this if I had logged in just a minute later. Taking it as some sort of sign to seize an opportunity to get some advice from a YouTube veteran and meet someone we look up to, Mannan/kthx and I headed out with a camera and no plan.
Turned out he was incredibly nice and open to talk, so I decided to go ahead and just interview him for Dunya, too! I’ve met celebrities/people I look up to before, but there was a really real difference with Chester— when he says he enjoys and cares about personal connections with his fans, he really isn’t joking.
And, of course, visit Chester See on YouTube :)
![While this whole quote is totally true, I (and I think we can all) relate with that first sentence. That said, however, too many people try to randomly hit on creativity without paying attention to that need for life experience.
texturism:
creativity is just connecting things – steve jobs [ via sebastianwaters ]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3li1kYBxo1qz6pkro1_500.png)
While this whole quote is totally true, I (and I think we can all) relate with that first sentence. That said, however, too many people try to randomly hit on creativity without paying attention to that need for life experience.
creativity is just connecting things – steve jobs [ via sebastianwaters ]
Video Blog Sixteen: The “Studio”.
I recently had to do a video assignment for my Communications class (CMNS130W, if you need to know), and decided to share the “setup” I had… set up… at home to make me all lit up. Filmed with a lower quality camera this time, but you can still more or less tell what’s going on.
I finish first year University tomorrow, so hopefully that means more video blogs and kaymoney coming up soon!
I reaaaaallly want to say “Huzzah!” right here but that would just be annoying and weird. So I’m definitely NOT saying “Huzzah!”. Right here.
A lot of people like to drink the Haterade when it comes to being critical of the US, and I’m no exception. But something I’ve been feeling over the past couple of years is an increasing level of discomfort with how we do things in Canada. From the environment to foreign policy to First Nations Affairs, we’re not exactly a model country in every way. Blame it on the democratically elected Harper government if you’d like, but we have at least as much responsibility for actions that are taken on our behalf as the publics of America, England, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the world. More, in fact, because we’re a democracy, and, our relatively low population means we have more responsibility per capita than perhaps anyone else in the world*
The Albertan Tar Sands are one such issue. I’m shamefully ignorant of the whole situation, but this documentary by Leslie Iwerks (The Pixar Touch) looks like it might have a lot to say on the matter, and I’m pretty sure we still have time to help the issue.
How? I might not have the best answers for that: simply using less oil (we all have that ability), making the idea of not being re-elected a very real issue in the minds of our politicians, creating art to address the harms such projects cause, and withdrawing support from companies that invest in activities we don’t agree with (Royal Bank, for example, is the main financier of the tar sand projects) are good starts.
Back to the trailer at hand, the vibe I get is that it focuses more on the American side of the issue, and fair enough: it’s an American film. But I’m sure there’s an NFB film or two on the subject for Canucks— even if you’re on the purely financial side of the issue, I think we’d be better positioned as the global centre of clean energy in the long term rather than exploit the land for short term profit.
I know that most of the people working on projects like this; the engineers, bankers, drivers, etc., are probably doing the best they can to have the smallest impact on the land. Without our support, however, and without us giving them the money to make this the best option for them to put food on their tables and turn a profit, they can’t really change everything for the better.
*not a researched fact
