Ninja July 20th, 2009
Here’s a little tune for your rainy days from an obscure and charming Brummie artist, Carina Round. She recorded this song by candle light with background beats provided the pitter patter of falling raindrops.
Enjoy,
Ninja
Ninja July 6th, 2009
Thank you, Giant Robot!!
Too bad this viddy was cut short by the security fellow.
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Photo by Sun Times
Brooklyn musical duo Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino met at Pratt Institute and have been playing peppy, poppy tunes since.
Matt and Kim live and play together in Daylight.
For Lessons Learned, the couple walk and strip their way through Times Square.
Head boppin’ fun,
Ninja
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Ninja April 30th, 2009
Amanda Palmer turns 33 today! To celebrate (and fulfill her only birthday wish), I thought I’d share some of her videos with you.
Leeds United music video
Ampersand music video
The Point Of It All music video
Guitar Hero music video
Blake Says live
The Dresden Dolls vs Panic! at the disco / Backstabber home video
Amanda performs her version of Radiohead’s classic Creep
If you don’t own a copy of her latest CD, you can pick up Who Killed Amanda Palmer here.
Ninja January 23rd, 2009
Here’s a fun, poppy, electronic groove for your Friday.
You don’t need a big budget to make a great music video. I love the DIY papercutting, stop motion animation in Rex the Dog’s Bubblicious music video. The Bubblicious single drops February 23rd.
Friday smiles,
Ninja
Penguin December 18th, 2008
This is a music video I cut together for my church’s Christmas service. The source footage is The Nativity Story and the song is Andrew Peterson’s “Labor of Love”.
The verse at the end is from Matthew 1:23
“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel,
which means ‘God is with us.’”
The video was edited on Adobe Premiere CS3 and finished on Adobe After Effects CS3.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin December 10th, 2008
Metallica has put out an awesome music video with Russians and zombies! It’s a really cool look at an alternate reality.
A combination of CGI, animation and footage scratched and blown out to look really old. It all just works.
ht: Ray
- Penguin
Related postsPenguin December 6th, 2008
Fat City Reprise – Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.
The video is gorgeous with its subtle animation and beautiful depth of field. It’s hard to imagine that it was all done with a DSLR
Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video.
Kuriyama says he directed the talent in the video to move as best they could in slow-motion while he had his director of photography Tommy Agriodimas shoot JPG bursts with the Nikon D200.
The duo were able to get about 60 images per burst at about four pictures per second.
After that the team re-worked the frames in post-production to move closer to 24 frames per second.
Including the time for conceptualizing and creating the story board, it took Kuriyama about 14 months to the video. He worked on it after-work hours every day.
The whole video cost just about $3000 to make
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- Penguin
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