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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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.

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

RARE Candid Jordan Belfort Interview - The Wolf of Wall Street

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/

Up Up Up

Hill climbing is a niche within a niche. It was one of the original tests of a cyclists skill, the proving ground before time-trials and road races. Now somewhat forgotten, a hardcore band of thin-limbed riders spend their Autumn sacrificing beer and cake for a shot at amateur bike racing glory.

Director | Thom Heald
B Camera | Camila Carlow
Titles | Luke Spurgeon
Thanks to | Sam Haire, Steve Watson, Bristol South CC, Aspect Film and Video

twitter.com/teeheald
bristolsouthcc.co.uk

A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

Is there a better way of showing a text message in a film? How about the internet? Even though we’re well into the digital age, film is still ineffective at depicting the world we live in. Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form.

For educational purposes only.
You can support the channel at patreon.com/everyframeapainting
And you can follow me at twitter.com/tonyszhou

Here are three short films that take place on your desktop
Internet Story (2010): youtu.be/g-SL4ejpP94
Noah (2013): bit.ly/18ivwOI
Transformers: the Premake (2014): youtu.be/dD3K1eWXI54

Music:
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - In Motion (from The Social Network)
David Arnold & Michael Price - On the Move (from Sherlock)
Daft Punk - End of Line (from Tron: Legacy)
Al Hirt - Green Hornet Theme (from Kill Bill Vol. 1)

Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time

Four years after his passing, we still haven't quite caught up to Satoshi Kon, one of the great visionaries of modern film. In just four features and one TV series, he developed a unique style of editing that distorted and warped space and time. Join me in honoring the greatest Japanese animator not named Miyazaki.

For educational purposes only.
You can support the channel at patreon.com/everyframeapainting
And you can follow me at twitter.com/tonyszhou

For further reading/viewing, I highly recommend:
Andrew Osmond's book "Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist" (my major source) http://amzn.com/1933330740
Kristin Thompson's essay on match cuts & graphic matches http://bit.ly/1x960Em
And this tumblr with an excellent name http://fuckyeahsatoshikon.tumblr.com/

Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?

There are filmmakers we love and then there’s Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an exploration of “Bayhem” — his style of camera movement, composition and editing that creates something overblown, dynamic and distinct.

For educational purposes only.
You can support the channel at patreon.com/everyframeapainting
And you can follow me at twitter.com/tonyszhou

For further reading/viewing, I recommend
Letterboxd user sydney’s review of Bad Boys 2: http://bit.ly/1iZe7SX
Michael Bay watches West Side Story: http://nyti.ms/Vg7ErY
Werner Herzog Talks About Wrestlemania & Anna Nicole Smith: http://bit.ly/VfQ9Iu

Music:
The Sound Defects - Take Out
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story Overture
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong

The Art of Color-Correction on 6.27.12

Colorist Rob Bessette of Finish Post presents an overview on the art of color correction with a step-by-step look at the finer points of Black Magic Design's DaVinci Resolve.

For more information about Rob Bessette, visit finishedit.com/rob.htm

Discovery Channel The Science of Interstellar

Matthew Mcconaughey voices over as the narration.

CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford + Making

From the album 'Solar Echoes'.
NigelStanford.com/Solar_Echoes

Download the video in 4k. All of the science experiments in the video are real. Watch behind the scenes and see how it was made.
NigelStanford.com/Cymatics

Directed by ShahirDaud.com
Cinematographer: Timur Civan

Behind the Scene

Ferro Fluid



Cymatics Chladni Plate



Speaker Dish



Hose Pipe



Ruben's Tube



Tesla Coil

'Reely and Truly' - a short film on photography (Director's Cut)

‘Reely and Truly’ is a new documentary from director Tyrone Lebon. The 30-minute film is an visual poem on contemporary photographers and their practices. 

Lebon’s intention is for the film to be a photographic object in itself. It is shot on all available celluloid formats (including 65mm, 35mm, super 16mm, 16mm, and super 8mm). The film has a free structure with an unconventional narrative, taking on the form of a visual poem.

This film is part of the ongoing ‘Reely and Truly’ project which will culminate in a book of photographs, texts and films about the practice of over 30 contemporary photographers to be published by DoBeDo in 2015. This 30 minute film is an extended trailer for that project.

Featuring (in order of appearance): Mark Lebon, Dick Jewell, Juergen Teller, Jack Webb, Sean Vegezzi, Jason Evans, Nigel Shafran, Fumiko Imano, Charchakaj Waikawee, Lina Scheynius, Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Ari Marcopoulos, Jill Freedman, Nick Sethi, Asger Carlsen, Arne Svenson, Petra Collins, Tim Barber, Renee Cox, Mario Sorrenti, and Lele Saveri.

The book is availaible for pre-order at DoBeDo.Co.uk

David Fincher's film theory

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Behind the Scenes on 'Gone Girl'

Hollywood blockbuster Gone Girl was edited entirely in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. The workflow used by David Fincher and his post-production team offers insights into the evolution of filmmaking today. Working interactively, with editorial and visual effects tightly linked, the team was able to shape the 6K source footage into a cinematic masterpiece. Hear how they did it. LEARN MORE about the Adobe Creative Cloud pro video tools: http://adobe.ly/1Bn4vX3

Understanding Art House | Under The Skin

You can discuss art house films, Under The Skin or anything else with me here: http://thenerdwriter.tumblr.com/ask
For short thoughts, my twitter is here: http://bit.ly/Sk3b5H

VIMEO SHORTS CITED:

Laurin Dopfner, "Verschleif"
https://vimeo.com/44339328

Tilt, "TILT JAPAN"
https://vimeo.com/96535666

Studio Swine, "Hair Highway"
https://vimeo.com/98210665

Mattis Dovier, "Plurabelle - Our Fires"
https://vimeo.com/99541639

1984 London, "Dream Life of Paper"
https://vimeo.com/99722811

STUFF:
Read my latest short story, "The Harbor", here: https://medium.com/@TheeNerdwriter/th...
To buy my first novel, Big City: https://gumroad.com/l/rqDD
To buy or listen to my first album, New Disguises: http://strumstick.bandcamp.com/
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