Fire Time-lapse by Michael Durham

Sharing a bit of wonderful Canon DSLR time-lapse work by my friend Michael Durham. He has been doing some amazing short-films for the National Park Service in the process honing some beautiful capture techniques. In his typically understated manner he sends me this email, "Recently While I was up on Mt Hood, I did some time-lapse of the fire up there. It turned out kind of awesome."

more on Michael's site: http://oregonwild.blogspot.com/2011/09/dollar-lake-complex-fire-time-lapse.html

Beauty in the Beast

Technology is a strange beast - most of it is pointless - I mean we do really pointless, self-destructive things with it - the stockmarket, automobiles, weapons, GMOs, plastics, computers, cell phones - the list is seemingly endless; Crap, we justify as critical to our lives. After the emergence of a technology, it's refinement, maybe it's ubiquity, it falls in the hands of artists. Then, and only then, do we discover the beauty in the beast.

It never was just a phone - we just didn't quit talking and texting long enough to see

or go here Splitscreen: A Love Story

The above was shot entirely on a Nokia N8 mobile phone. Winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011.

LOOM - a brilliant "little" film

Every once in a while you see something that just makes you pause - a little piece of brilliance - such is Loom. Magical film-making. Maybe more magical film-thinking!

As the creators say on their website:

"But it’s the point of view that creates an intense relationship between the hunter and its victim. There is much more to explore, much more to feel if one takes the time to really experience the content of a split second."