The Light of Life - stunning gfx!

Stephen Brunt Video Essay of the 2010 Winter Olympics

OK Go’s new video is incredible!

From http://syynlabs.com/:

When the rock band OK Go, famous for their viral videos including the spectacular and award winning “treadmills video“, wanted to feature a 4-minute long Rube Goldberg Machine in an upcoming video, they tapped Syyn Labs to build it.  The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not “overbuilt” or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow.  The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot.  To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both.

We had our work cut out for us; every facet of Syyn Labs’ expertise was required to meet this tremendous challenge. See the results of this remarkable effort in the video embedded above.

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans - this is incredible. One of the best pieces I’ve ever seen about Canada!

Oh Canada by Classified. Rad hip hop track for Canada!

The Olympic Cauldron - HDR shot by Duncs!



The Olympic Cauldron, originally uploaded by thelastminute.

Amazing HDR shot by Duncs! (http://lastminuteblog.com)

Vectorial Elevation Lightshow -1080p HD

shot & cut by: Jon Rawlinson
music is: love like a sunset pt2 by Phoenix (buy the song on iTunes: http://bit.ly/bE5UQu )
Vectorial Elevation - http://vectorialvancouver.net

Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.

This was shot using a Canon 5D with a 16-35 lens and a Canon intervalometer.  I used a Miller DS20 tripod as well.