If you’ve been paying attention, camera slider and dolly moves are becoming more in vogue by the moment thanks to the HD DLSR movement. I found this tutorial on Vimeo for by far the most professional DIY solution to build your own camera slider. He even sourced all the parts for you, check out the full tutorial on his website friedhelm-fischer.de. Thanks Friedhelm!
Apparently people in Canada have a lot of spare time on their hands. Dan Watson of You Will Soon trimmed up Flip’s Extremely Sorry video to his specifications and added a new soundtrack to boot. No claymation = fine with me.
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I made it very clear before that I wasn’t really feeling the new Flip video, Extremely Sorry. It had super sick skating in it, but my two biggest problems were the horrible DJ Baron soundtrack, and the superfluous useless clips scattered throughout the entire thing…MORE
With most of the east coast buried under a good 3 feet of snow right now, it seems only appropriate that most of the country is going to be fixated on the warm climate of Miami, Florida today. That’s right, most of you jocks are gonna be stuffing your fat faces with chips and dip and screaming like little girls while Stuperbowl XLIV mesmorizes you in your living room. But you might as well take a break during the halftime show to watch this world premiere trailer to get a different taste of Miami.
Be patient, it takes a second to load, but it’s worth it.
R.B. Umali continues to get his HD DLSR skills dialed in. Check out his edit from Zered Bassett’s Photo Show/Skate Jam at Mount Creek in New Jersey.
footage from Zered Bassett’s photo show/skate jam at Mount Creek. Sponsored by Zoo York and Red Bull Skateboarding. Shot handheld at 720/60P on the Canon 7D with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 and Canon 50mm 1.8mm lenses.
Last week brought us the Machotaildrop Trailer, turning heads all around. Adam Salo at ESPN caught up with Corey Adams and Alex Craig to find out more about this seemingly bizarre skateboarding movie now making the film festival rounds.
Check out this unreleased Gravis Promo Video of Dylan Rieder and Arto Saari on Greg Hunt’s website. Solid.
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Rick McCrank can act his ass off.
Trailer for the feature film Machotaildrop by Corey Adams and Alex Craig. Featuring Rick McCrank, John Rattray, Anthony Amadori, James Faulkner, Lukacs Bicskey, Vanessa Guide, Fred Mortagne, Frank Gerwer, Steve Olson plus many many more fine folks…
Me neither, but Ty Evans and Guy Mariano are. Check out some behind the scenes footage and photos from the Where The Wild Things Are set from the Skate Fairy.
Pilot Light wrapped up his top 10 picks for best video parts of the year placing Jake Johnson squarely at #1. Here’s the list:
1. Jake Johnson - Mind Field, Quartersnacks edit
2. Chewy Cannon - Diagonal
3. Grant Taylor - Debacle
4. Eli Reed - Zoo York State of Mind
5. Heath Kirchart - Mind Field
6. Dennis Busenitz - Diagonal
7. Bobby Worrest - Right Foot Forward
8. Pat Burke - Radio Television
9. Chet Childress - God Save the Label
10. Luke Croker - Deluxe Catalog
Check out the rationale and all the parts at Boil The Ocean.
