Eneco Toon

Together with Achtung! we’ve created a film for Toon, a thermostat that helps you monitor and manage your energy consumption. Sharing a vision of the future as well as the current features of the device.

As Toon can be operated via a tablet, we chose to build the story around this. Realistic 3D, an earthly yet clean color palette and warm sound design were used to achieve a personal and lifelike touch.

Directed and produced by PlusOne.
http://www.plusoneamsterdam.com

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Be Sexy, Be Smart

Soa Aids Nederland asked us to help raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections and HIV among people living in the Netherlands from sub-Saharan Africa, Suriname, the Dutch Antilles and Aruba. Recent research has shown these groups to be at greater risk of infection due to cultural factors, which often result in them being less inclined to acknowledge the risk or seek help. This is not only bad for the health of the individuals concerned, but also the wider community. So there’s work to be done…

To have an impact on this audience, we knew we’d have to develop an approach which would resonate culturally. The film needed to balance clarity with playfulness to open minds and engage with a very serious message. It had to be sensitive to boundaries, yet direct enough to provoke action. We therefore set about writing a script with an authentic and powerful tone-of-voice, which avoided being patronizing.

Mostly inspired by African art we’ve crafted expressive hand-drawn graphics and fluent transitions to impart a personal touch and create a powerful visual language, which is easy to relate to for the target audience. 

In addition to the general campaign film we also created a piece intended for general practitioners. They’re on the front-line in recognizing and advising on this issue, so raising more awareness in this arena is important. This film will be uploaded soon, so keep a close watch on our website.

It was a great project to work on, with many creative challenges. Although very labour-intensive working frame by frame, we feel the resulting look has a charming handcrafted feel to it. It is accompanied by an evocative sound track which intertwines with the narrative, creating a piece that will hopefully resonate with its audience and be very memorable. We hope you like it!

Designed, directed and produced by PlusOne.
http://www.plusoneamsterdam.com

Client: Soa Aids Nederland
Creative Director: Martijn Hogenkamp 
Producer: Marcel Vrieswijk 
Design and animation: Christiaan Vlok, Cas Prins, Guido van Gemerden, Ola Tandstad, Rob Wienk, Jeroen Peter, Martijn Hogenkamp, Marcel Vrieswijk, Geert Jansen
Copy: Miriam Young, Jessica Lehrer
Music and Sound Design: ParkStudio
Client: Wim Zuilhof, Rieneke de Man, Eva Meddens
Special thanks to: Van Kruijssen Casting, InterVoiceOver, Raymi Sambo, Farida van den Stoom

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GoPro HERO3: Black Edition - Smaller, Lighter and 2X More Powerful

Shot 100% on the new HERO3® camera from ‪http://GoPro.com.

The Wi-Fi enabled HERO3: Black Edition is the most advanced GoPro, ever. No expense was spared during its development, resulting in a GoPro that is 30% smaller, 25% lighter & 2X more powerful than previous models. New resolutions and frame-rates include 4Kp 15, 2.7kp 30, 1080p 60, 1440p 48, 960p 100, 720p 120 and 12MP burst photo capture at 30 fps. Yes, for real.

Sit back and enjoy the HERO3: Black Edition in all its glory. #GoPro


FEATURED ATHLETES (in location & order of appearance)


SNOW: (Mt. Cook, New Zealand)

Tom Wallisch
Eric Willett
Julia Mancuso


SKI BASE JUMP: (Earnslaw Burn, New Zealand)

JT Holmes


SURF: (Tahiti, French Polynesia)

Kelly Slater
Anthony Walsh
Manoa Drollet


DIVE: (Vava'u, Tonga)

Mandy Rae Krack
Erin Magee
Ashleigh Baird


MTB: ( Queenstown, New Zealand and Squamish, BC, Canada)

Aaron Chase
Mike Montgomery
Kelly McGarry
Bret Tippy


KAYAK: (Turangi, Taupo, Aratiatia, Whangarei, and Maruia in New Zealand)

Ben Brown
Rush Sturges


MOTO: (San Francisco, CA)

James Rispoli
Josh Herrin
Jake Ellington


AEROBATIC PILOT: (Queenstown, New Zealand)

Chuck Berry


MUSIC:

OVERWERK - "Daybreak"
(GoPro HERO3 Edit)

From the upcoming EP "After Hours"

Download the song FREE here:
http://on.fb.me/SZlDsY


SPECIAL THANKS!


DIVE:

Kirk Krack - Performance Freediving
http://www.performancefreediving.com

Dolphin Pacific
http://www.dolphinpacificdiving.com/

Riffe
http://www.speargun.com

Aqua Lung
http://www.aqualung.com

Suunto
http://www.suunto.com

Andy Casagrande


SNOW:

MAP Productions Ltd
http://mapproductions.co.nz/welcome/

The Northface
http://www.thenorthface.com

Heliworks Helicopters
http://www.heliworks.co.nz/


KAYAK:

Ngati Tuwharetoa
Te Runanganui o Ngati Hikairo ki Tongariro


SURF:

The Drollet Family
http://matarai.com/

Gravity

Some analogue experiments with gravity.
Big thanks to Radium Audio for this brilliant music & sound design!


Video: Clemens Wirth (www.clemenswirth.com)
Audio: Radium Audio (www.radium-audio.com)


Inspired by Lautlos from Feedmee (https://vimeo.com/10458544) and the movie Inception

INTERRUPT

An audiovisual neurotic slow-motion experience of random daily life in Southeast Asia.
Take your time, lean back and use big speakers or headphones. Enjoy and feel what I saw on my last trip.

Music by myself.
© 2015 facebook.com/paul.wex.films
Feel free to share.
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Entirely shot with a vintage 35mm OM Zuiko lens on a 5DMk3@ALL-I by using a Z-Finder.
Twixtored and graded with Color Finale on FCPX.

Sound of Ceres | BRYN MARINA - Official Music Video

Bryn Marina was written and recorded by Ryan Hover, Karen Hover and Robert Schneider in Fort Collins, Colorado and Decatur, Georgia. Bryn Marina is a journey through time and space- a story of how the human intersects with the universe and the relationship they share.

Over a year in the making, the Bryn Marina video was filmed in time-lapse using still cameras and macro lenses to capture children's “grow in water” toys as they slowly sprouted and came to life.

Sound of Ceres explores the wonders of our living planet through the lenses of mid-century lounge music, 60s pop, 70s nature documentary soundtracks, a single 80s drum fill, 90s shoegaze, and modern sampling techniques.

OFFICIAL BAND SITE: http://soundofceres.com

BUY THE TRACK: https://soundofceres.bandcamp.com

Hang Son Doong

Take an otherworldly journey through Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave, by both ground and air.

Filmed near the entrance and the first and second dolines (skylights) which are 2.5 and 3.5 km inside the cave respectively.

Gear
Canon 6D
Canon 16-35mm f4
DJI Phantom 2
GoPro Hero 4 Black

www.ryandeboodt.com
Find me on Instgram - www.instagram.com/rdeboodt
Find me on Facebook - www.facebook.com/RyanDeboodtPhotography
For licensing/usage please email - ryan@ryandeboodt.com

Music: A Glow - Dan Phillipson

Permissions and logistics arranged by Oxalis Adventure

100 Years - Armenian Genocide

In this special year 2015, we did this 3 minute animation for the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. The Turkish government denies to the date that the genocide took place. It has passed a hundred years, today April 24th, and we`ll keep on fighting till recognition. This is a small tribute to the 1.500.000 victims.

2veinte.com.ar
Facebook.com/2veinte
@2veintestudio

Non commercial project
Done by 2veinte
Directed by Pablo Gostanian
Creative Direction: Pablo Gostanian
Executive Producer: Agustin Valcarenghi
Animation Direction: Pablo Gostanian, Melisa Farina, Sebastian Garcia, Juan Pablo Sciaccaluga
Cel Animation Direction: Melisa Farina, Sebastian Garcia
Art Direction: Pablo Gostanian, Juan Molinet
Associate Arte Direction: Facundo Quiroga
Illustrators & Designers: Juan Molinet, Facundo Quiroga, Pablo Gostanian, Mariano Cutropia, Luke Etcheverry, Fernando Martinez Ruppel, Santiago Medina Neves
Character Design: Juan Molinet
Cel Animators: Melisa Farina, Sebastian Garcia, Facundo Quiroga, Augusto Gabrys, Santiago Medina Neves, Juan Nadalino, Nahuel Sagárnaga,
Lucia Castez, Martin Gil, Valentina Candia, Alex Gostanian, Diego Frachia, Gabriela Bosco
2D Animation: Juan Pablo Sciaccaluga, Josefina Preumayr, Alex Gostanian, Pablo Gostanian, Enmanuel Pelaez, Diego Flores Diapolo
3D Animation: Augusto Gabrys, Diego Flores Diapolo, Sebastian Garcia, Juan Pablo Sciaccaluga
Composition: Juan Pablo Sciaccaluga, Sebastian Garcia
Post Production: Pablo Gostanian, Josefina Preumayr
Story Board: Melisa Farina, Sebastian Garcia, Facundo Quiroga, Pablo Gostanian
Story & Concept: Pablo Gostanian
Producer: Geraldine Chaia Arazi

Music: Brian Eno – 2 forms of anger (not for commercial use)
SFX: Diego Flores Diapolo, Rancho

This video belongs to 2veinte, all rights reserved. Reproduction must be consent only by 2veinte.

Welcome to Airbnb + Making

When we travel, the world around us gets smaller. Friendships are made on the fly, landscapes are explored, and new experiences are found around every corner. And when you stay in an Airbnb listing, this small world feeling is amplified immeasurably. We've created a fantastic handmade world that dramatizes the feeling you get while traveling with Airbnb. It's an expansive world, yet truly personal. As the train travels through this world, the viewer gets to experience what is Airbnb and how Airbnb enables you to Belong Anywhere. Explore at airbnb.com

Welcome to Airbnb - Behind the Scenes

A behind the scenes look at the process of creating 'Welcome to Airbnb'. The film was shot through a small camera mounted on the model train in a single, 60-second take. All external movements are mechanical, not animated or done in post-production. All the different transitions that were hand operated had to be incredibly coordinated. It was a well-orchestrated effort to ensure that the 9 people who did several jobs at once were able to either fold things up before, or tilt things over and rotate things to ensure the one perfect take.

Box

Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. http://www.botndolly.com/box

CREDITS
Directed by: BOT & DOLLY
Executive Producer: Julia Gottlieb
Producers: Bill Galusha, Nick Read
Creative & Technical Director: Tarik Abdel-Gawad
Design Director: Bradley G Munkowitz
Lead Graphic Designers: Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr
3D Artists: Scott Pagano, Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr, Conor Grebel
2D Animators: Conor Grebel, Ben Hawkins, Pedro Figueira
Director of Photography: Joe Picard
Lighting Designers: Joe Picard, Phil Reyneri
Projection / TouchDesigner: Phil Reyneri
Robotics Animation: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Brandon Kruysman, George Banks, Michael Beardsworth
Robotics Operator: Michael Beardsworth, Brandon Kruysman
Prop Fabrication: Matt Bitterman, Ethan Dale
Script Supervisor: Ian Colon
Sound Engineers: Joe Picard, Michael Beardsworth
PAs: Sean Servis, Dakota Smith, Nico Mizono, Eric Wendel, Patrick Walsh
Editors: Ashley Rodholm, Ian Colon
Music / Sound Design: Keith Ruggiero
Sound Mix: Joel Raabe
Performers: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Iris, Scout

A Brief History of User Interface

Dave Wiskus explores the history of interaction and interface design, from the keyboard and mouse to multitouch, and beyond.

Every day, people all over the world are clicking, tapping, typing, and touching and dragging things on glass screens. Our ability to use all this fancy technology with ease didn’t happen overnight. So how did we end up here?

Brought to you by Hullo, the pillow that stays cool all night: http://hullopillow.com/betterelevation

AT&T V386: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvxjP...
DOS tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Hzt...
Source code from Slopes: http://getslopes.com
Windows 95 Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcN...
Photoshop 3: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/apps/...
Flying Toasters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Da...)
Metallica versus Napster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic....
iPhone announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4OEs...
Oculus Rift: https://www.oculus.com/rift/

Bonus link: GUI screenshot archive: http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html (via Guy English)

My thanks to Jason Snell, Brent Simmons, Nick Arnott, Joe Cieplinksi, and Ryan Nielsen for fact-checking and copy editing. If I’m wrong about anything, blame them.

And an extra special thanks to the wonderful people who support the show on Patreon:

Ryan Nielsen
Abraham Vegh
Orta Therox
Curtis Herbert
Zach Kahn
Samuel Strickland
Daniel Cacace
Kevin Korpi
Joshua Ouille
Jordan Cooper
Pat McConnell
Klaas Pieter Annema
Bernd Goldschmidt
Garrett Allen
Matt Oram
Ben McCarthy
Brian Alvey

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The Golden Ratio vs. The Rule of Thirds

When it comes to photography, there is a debate whether or not the Golden Ratio is better than the Rule of Thirds. Join Tara as she discusses the importance of these.

Read More:
What is the ‘Golden Ratio’ and why is it better than the ‘Rule of Thirds?’
http://photo.stackexchange.com/questi...
“Somebody recently told me that I will be able to compose more pleasing pictures if I use the Golden Ratio instead of the Rule of Thirds, and that the Rule of Thirds was an inferior way to compose photographs.”

How to Use the Golden Ratio to Improve Your Photography
http://www.apogeephoto.com/may2014/ho...
“The Golden Ratio has been used as a powerful composition tool for centuries. It is a design principle based on the ratio of 1 to 1.618.”
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What Every CEO Needs to Know About UX with Dr. Eric Schaffer

What every CEO needs to know about creating a user experience practice with Dr. Eric Schaffer. For more Information on HFI; http://www.humanfactors.com/uxsetup/i...

CEO's are going through a transition that just has to make their heads explode.
It used to be that success was about getting powerful hardware in place or efficient software or great marketing offers.

But today things are suddenly very different. In 2012, Forrester found that 97 percent
of companies surveyed considered customer experience as the top strategic priority, and 28 percent considered it the primary priority. Seventy-five percent of companies hope to make customer experience a competitive differentiator.

Today, hardware and software and offers are undifferentiated. Marketing devolves to offering customers a four-slice toaster to convert. But then the competition offers a six-slice toaster, and the margins get vanishingly thin. So we differentiate today on customer experience. We roll that buzzword around a lot, but what does it mean.

For an executive, experience in hardware and software and offers and toasters, it might not be clear. Sure, in the physical spaces, we make stores with nice appointments and attentive staff, and we train our call center folks to be empathetic, but most of the customer experience challenge today is in the digital channels. And what does it mean there?

There's a profession called usability or user experience engineering, which focuses exactly on this topic. There's a billion dollars' worth of research on how to optimize human computer interactions. There are graduate degrees and training and certifications and methods and tools and standards, and a load of folks who put up a sign to say they do user experience design, but they actually specialize more in something else. User experience engineers systematically create designs that are efficient, accurate, self-evident, fun, and compelling.

You can measure the impact and business results, like throughput or number of calls to the call center or conversion rate. But if you're a CEO who understands the importance of customer experience, you have one big scary challenge. You won't know how to set up a practice in customer experience design, and a lot of what you learned from hardware and software and offers won't work.

You might make motivational speeches about customer experience, but motivation is not the problem. No one is trying to make online banking hard. You might set clear goals with your team, and the result is often a scrum of executives all trying to own customer
experience without any idea what to do with it. You might buy some training,
but the training staff come out into an environment that's not ready, and they soon forget their skills as they get no chance to use them.

So you hire a super strong expert in customer experience design. But while they're great at designing experiences, they don't know how to set up an industrial strength practice for designing experiences. Then you look for a consultancy that claims to do user experience design, but you actually get a graphics firm that makes lovely pictures that are very impressive but doesn't get you where you need to be. But before you give up, recognize that a sustainable customer experience design practice can only happen with a set of things in place. It's just like a hospital. It happens because of organizational structures and standards and surgeons and pipes. You hire an expert in setting up hospitals. You need a consulting partner that will help your company to set up a serious sustainable industrial strength practice.

To download a copy of this drawing and the related UX paper, go to http://www.HumanFactors.com/CEOVideo.asp

Crop Sensors vs Full Frame :: Crop Or Crap?

Let's get a few things out of the way ::

I have said, in the past, that you should move toward full frame sensors. I have always championed full frame sensors. At the end of the day, full frame sensors beat APS sized and smaller sensors.

The whole reason I bought an original x100 was because it had the largest sensor I could find in a small camera. It had been a number of years since I had shot an APS crop frame sensor. The last APS camera I shot professionally was the Nikon D200. I replaced that with a Nikon D3 (full frame) and then moved on to the Canon 5d2, (also full frame.) From the time I retired my D200 to using the x100 on jobs was about four years. When I bought that little x100 I had ZERO desire to change to a new camera system. I sure as hell was NOT going to switch from a full frame camera to an APS camera. Full frame cameras are better. Right?

If I have ruffled your feathers, as these topics usually tend to do, please read my entire blog post about this topic before you fire something off at me. I go more in depth there.

http://dedpxl.com/crop-or-crap-math-o...

Cubic Bezier Curves - Under the Hood

Take a peek under the hood to see how computers draw cubic Bézier curves, as used in design and motion graphics programs. This video is part of the article Mastering the Bezier Curve in Sketch.

http://medium.com/@pnowelldesign/mastering-the-bezier-curve-in-sketch-4da8fdf0dbbb

ISLAND of DHARMA

Photography & editing | Piotr Wancerz | www.facebook.com/timelapsemediapl
Music | Tony Anderson "The Prophecy" | www.tonyandersonmusic.com

Locations: Anuradhapura, Colombo, Dambulla, Ella, Haputale, Kandy, Negombo, Sigiriya, Tangalle, Udawalawe

Eyes: The Windows to Your Health

Your eyes are tiny spheres of wonder. A doctor can find warning signs of high blood pressure, diabetes, and a whole range of other systemic health issues, just by examining your eyes. Ophthalmologist Neal Adams explains why the eye's tissues and blood vessels make such a good barometer for wellness.

RARE Candid Jordan Belfort Interview - The Wolf of Wall Street

Let’s Cook

How sisters Michelle and Diana Stock create their handcrafted, scented candles for Small Gunns.

See the entire line at smallgunns.com/shop — Making-of: prolost.com/letscook

 

ACCELERATE: Be the Tortoise Not the Hare

In life. At work. Maybe what you're doing isn't working. You know you need to accelerate. You know you need to change the game. Turn things up...So maybe what you need is a new way of thinking. Some new good advice. An inspiring motivational manifesto, a new big idea. 

and maybe that big idea...is a really simple one. One you learned when you were a child.

Be the Tortoise. Not the Hare.

a essay in motion about the simple truth that slowing down IS speeding up.

Issimo Productions - issimoproductions.com/
Written and Edited by Zach Kempf - zach@issimoproductions.com
Executive Producer, Jacob Hoehne

Client, Corporate Alliance - corporatealliance.net/

Thumbnail image, creative commons, Alexander Montuschi, flickr.com/photos/montuschi/6011883737/