I went up to Bellingham yesterday to shoot a time lapse video for artist Ben Mann. If you live in Bellingham, you've seen Ben's work, it's EVERYWHERE. Mambo Italiano, Little Cheerful, Mallards... This is the first time I've done a time lapse this long and I think it turned out pretty good. I plugged the camera into the computer and just captured directly to the hard drive instead of recording to tape. So I didn't have to worry about switching tapes every hour and didn't have to put all that wear on the heads. The painting took about 4 hours.
Ben Mann - Performance Art (Time Lapse) from ben mann on Vimeo.
One of the first videos that I made as a "professional" (i'm using the term very loosely here) was for Ben back in 2005-ish, while I was a student at Western. You can see it after the jump. I shot in on my parents' 8mm camcorder, with no external mic, no lights and no idea what I was doing. It's a miracle that it turned out as well as it did.
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Smells Like Money DVD Cover
When I was going to school at WWU and the NW Film School (yeah that's a picture of me on the homepage), I produced, shot and edited a documentary called "Smells Like Money: The Story of Bellingham's Georgia Pacific Plant." My goal at the time (2006) was to sell 100 copies of the DVDs. I just got a check from Village Books, and during the holiday season they sold a whopping 4 copies, which puts me at 102 DVDs sold. It took me three years, but I did it!
shooting The Order in the freezing cold
This isn't new, but here's a link to a trailer for The Order that I worked on a while back up in Bellingham. It was directed by Lars Simkins, the VFX guy for Handcrank Films up there in bham. Also check out the top video here, which has some before/ after green screen stuff (at about half way through) so you can see what we actually shot vs. how it looks after Lars worked his magic on it.
If you're wondering where you can see the feature, you're out of luck. We only shot the trailer.