Behind the Scenes of a Grammy Nominated Stop Motion Music Video

The stop motion music video for Oren Lavie‘s song “Her Morning Elegance” took the web by storm last year, amassing over ten million views on YouTube and receiving a Grammy nomination.

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Sony just announced a new video camera that’s quite a worthy challenger to the Flip Video. The Bloggie Touch replaces the original Bloggie video camera and boasts a much sleeker design (dropping the swiveling LCD), a 3-inch touchscreen, 4 to 8 GB of internal memory, 1080p HD video recording, and 12.8 megapixel photographs. Like the Flip, it’s designed for quick and easy photos and videos on the go, and can connect to computers via a built-in USB connector.

At first glance, it appears to be missing an audio in jack and a tripod screw mount? Either way, I think it is an amazing design and can’t wait to get my hands on one to play around with.

It’ll be available starting in October for $180 to $200 depending on how much space you need.

Latest video I shot at the OC Foodie Fest. Trying out new camera setup and still working on editing video. Read the rest of this entry »

Behind the Scenes of Annie Leibovitz Shooting Sean Connery for Louis Vuitton

Not a bad look at behind the scenes. Sean Connery and Louis Vuitton, two faves in my book. Looks like she is shooting with a Canon 1D mark iii or mark iv.

Spent quite a few days at Comic-Con shooting stills and video. Decided to throw most of the footage I shot into a video for all the dudes on YouTube.

Another video I put together from Comic-Con of the DiggNation Live Taping with Mike Relm. Mike’s an amazing guy and had a blast hanging out multiple nights during Comic-Con.

Chicago lightning storm captured recently by Craig Shimala from his balcony. Using a Canon 7D and a 10-22mm wide angle lens, he was lucky enough to film lightning striking the three tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time.

Worth a look. PSA featuring a band of badass moms.

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Put together a video testing out the video capability of the Canon 5d mark ii. Had a blast.

PacSun Beach Ballyhoo
June 19-20, 2010
Santa Monica, CA

Canon 5d mark ii 50 1.4

Live Performances by AWOLNATION, CIRCA SURVIVE, BAD RABBITS, AS TALL AS LIONS, YELAWOLF, RA RA RIOT, MINUS THE BEAR, HEY CHAMP, EYE ALASKA, STEEL TRAIN, NEON TREES, MATT & KIM, B.O.B.

I decided to shoot video simultaneously while doing my normal still photos in Downtown LA during the 2010 Lakers celebration/riots right after the game finished. The video camera was attached to the side and is a bit off, but you get the idea. I might try this out again for another event.