Mirror City: A Kaleidoscopic Timelapse of Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Vegas and L.A.

When I first started Mirror City, I wanted to create a video that was completely out of the norm. I wanted to showcase something unique and artistic, which takes Timelapse photography into a more abstract direction. Mirror City is a visual story through some of the great American cities: Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. These clips were all processed from their original form, into the kaleidoscopic visuals that you see in this video. Many people visit these large cities every day, and all of these places have been shot and filmed, but I wanted to emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before. I wanted to put man-made geometric shapes, mixed with elements of color and movement to create less of a structured video, and more of a plethora of visual stimulation. The video starts off with simple mirrors and recognizable architecture, as the video progresses, so does the visual stimulation, showing the real abstraction of the piece. I have worked on this piece for an extremely long amount of time. I have spent time mirroring images and videos for the past five years, and I have been working on this specific piece for about four months. I felt it was time to combine Timelapse photography and the simplicity of a kaleidoscope, and create Mirror City. Directed, Filmed & Edited: Michael Shainblum www.shainblumphoto.com/ www.facebook.com/shainblumphoto www.500px.com/Shainblum www.twitter.com/shainblum Music: Bassnectar Track: Bassnectar – Butterfly (ft. Mimi Page) www.bassnectar.net/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bassnectar/id2900657 Motion Control Gear Sponsors: Emotimo www.emotimo.com/ Dynamic Perception www.dynamicperception.com/ (All clips are available in the original and mirrored format) For licensing & inquires please contact at Shainblumphoto@gmail.com

From the video page: 

These clips were all processed from their original form, into the kaleidoscopic visuals that you see in this video. Many people visit these large cities every day, and all of these places have been shot and filmed, but I wanted to emulate these urban landscapes in a way that nobody has even seen before. I wanted to put man-made geometric shapes, mixed with elements of color and movement to create less of a structured video, and more of a plethora of visual stimulation.

 

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How A Tesla Model S is Made

If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry-with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory straight from the future. That's where the battery-powered Model S is born.

It is an amazing machine.  

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Eighty-six Year-old Irish Fisherman Still Fishing

We went to southern Ireland trying to find an interesting story to capture. While we were in Castletownbere, Ireland, the name Pat Murphy kept coming up around town. The locals said that if we wanted to get an interesting story, we had to interview him. So we went on a journey to find him. We had to wait in the town three days before we could meet him, because he was out at sea. This is the story we got from him when he returned. Special thanks to the town of Castletownbere, Ireland. Filmed on the Canon 5D. Zeiss 85mm f/1.4, Canon 24mm f/1.4, Canon 50mm f/1.8. 3' slider. Glidecam 2000. You can visit more of our work at www.wearefilmsny.com www.twitter.com/wearefilms www.facebook.com/wearefilms

The Oldest Man In The Sea from We Are Films profiles Pat Murphy who still makes a living doing what he has done for so long. 

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Return to the Sea - Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto

Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors during a two-week residency at the Monterey Museum of Art—Pacific Street location. Traditionally used as a symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, the artist’s use of salt emanates from a powerful personal experience in working through the death of his sister. His artwork is rooted in themes of life, death, and rebirth, and his process with salt has helped him cleanse his grief. Return to the Sea, Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto is organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston School of the Arts. Video produced by John Greenwald

From the video page: 

Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist from Hiroshima, Japan, who creates elaborate, site-specific installations made entirely out of salt. Often in the form of large-scale labyrinths or aerial projections of typhoons, Yamamoto takes one of the earth’s oldest, most sought-after mineral elements to cover the entire gallery floors.

 

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Macro Flower Timelapse from Daniel Csobot

Kamera und Schnitt: Daniel Csobot www.danic.me www.novalapse.com Technik: Canon 7D Kessler CineSlider Canon EF 100mm Macro Canon 15-85mm Fotozelt Tageslichtlampen Lizenzierung von Sequenzen auf Anfrage möglich. Licensing for sequences available on request. Musik: Daniel Gautreau - Digital Heartbeat - www.audionetwork.com

From Daniel Csobot

Canon 7D, Kessler CineSlider, Canon EF 100mm Macro, Canon 15-85mm. Awesome.

 

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Shunpo - An Agile Dance Video

What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A Step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo. Shunpo was shot in 6 days in 13 different locations in Paris plus one in Turkey at "Tuz Gölü" salt lake. The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 L, 24-70L and 70-200L lenses. Directed by Steven Briand - briand.steven@gmail.com With Juliette Nicolotto Choreographer Fabrice Domenet Cinematographer Kanamé Onoyama Steadycam Operator Johan Leclaire Bottarelli recording supervisor Benoît Maerens Original Music by Grégoire Letouvet Sound Design Moritz Reich Additional Beats Nodey Produced By Nathalie Lapicorey & Zeynep Gizem De Loecker with the support of Dailymotion

Shunpo  (瞬歩) is a step or movement faster than the eye can detect. And this dance video evokes shunpo in clever ways. 

 

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56,000 km - films by Kares Le Roy

56 000 kilomètres au coeur de l'Asie a film by Kares Le Roy music by The Cinematic Orchestra ► [website] www.karesleroy.com ► [blog] www.bykares.com ► [fb] www.facebook.com/bykares *Acheter le livre sur le site de la Fnac : livre.fnac.com/a3817330/Kares-Le-Roy-56-000-kilometres-un-continent-et-des-hommes © Amu Darya

French photographer, Kares Le Roy spent the last two years in Asia traveling over 56000km. These two short videos ("Into the heart of Asia", and "A Continent and its People") were the result.

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56000 kilomètres - un continent et des hommes Photographs by Kares Le Roy ► [website] www.karesleroy.com ► [blog] www.bykares.com ► [fb] www.facebook.com/bykares *Acheter le livre sur le site de la Fnac : livre.fnac.com/a3817330/Kares-Le-Roy-56-000-kilometres-un-continent-et-des-hommes Photography by Kares > www.karesleroy.com Motion by Slimane Aniss > www.slimotion.com Music by Woodini > www.woodini.fr © Amu Darya