nachtwey, the storyboarder and more pdnonline...
as i noted on friday james nachtwey and his TED wish came to full fruition over the weekend. apparently nachtwey has been working to document xdrtb or extreme drug resistant tuberculosis. he's been all over the world (cambodia, south africa, swaziland, thailand, siberia, lesotho and india) documenting the destruction.
his photo project was produced with the money from the TED prize and his TED "wish" has just stared to spread with a time magazine article (although, sadly, it's a bit buried and difficult to locate on the front page, but that's time for you. it's true, i'd rather find god on youtube...sigh). thankfully you can find nachtewy's work all over the world.
nachtwey's project is really ambitious and hopefully successful in it's aims. his TED lecture is amazing and worth listening to.
without question, TED continues to be absolutely amazing.
on a lighter note, casey verberkmoes has a new launch on his website and you can see his sweet storyboarding skills here.
and lastly, pdn online wanted to have a "shootout" between the 4K red one camcorder and the new 5d mark II. it's true, the world has gone mad with the release of the new 5d (evidence forthcoming...if that's not enough already).
while i've never seen footage from a 4k red one camcorder, i'm super reluctant to put the 5d mark II up against any 4k video file. even for fun. yes, the 5d mark II is mind-blowing but it's not a film camera. it's still a dslr.
pdn online does note that it would be "apples to oranges" (agreed), however, they later go on to boldly state, "how quickly the photographers were able to adapt to shooting commercials in HD+." and, "Videographers should be afraid...very afraid." again, i'm super reluctant to agree with this simply because post production on the video side of things is vastly different than post production with still images. it's another world when dealing with nonlinear editing (how much post was applied to reverie?). i'm uncertin whether a photographer could be an overnight videographer. coming from a film background i have some experience with it. yes, it's true, i'm not a autodesk editor but i encounter so many photographers who know very little (if anything at all) about editing video, dealing with codecs and media conversion - all keys to video. but then again that's why we have editors...but when pnd says "videograhpher" - it sounds like an all inclusive job discription to me...
and photograph doesn't always mean film. i believe vincent laforet's video "reverie" was amazing (the link has been pulled because everyone in the world watched it) but i don't know if a 5d hd video justifies anyone speeding across the city at night wearing sunglasses (is that a logical narrative device?). the blues brothers did it (possibly the terminator?) but i don't know if it's still an acceptable practice (the blues brothers being lazily cool and the terminator having a gun, the dude in reverie having a...dreamy super ego?). but then again, vincent laforet is vincent laforet and if anyone can get away with it, he probably can. maybe that's why they had to put "speedracer" on a helicopter, because he couldn't see driving at night with his sunglasses...
at the end of the day, i don't think videographers have anything to be afraid of...well, maybe driving at night on roads where people wear sunglasses.
there it is.
his photo project was produced with the money from the TED prize and his TED "wish" has just stared to spread with a time magazine article (although, sadly, it's a bit buried and difficult to locate on the front page, but that's time for you. it's true, i'd rather find god on youtube...sigh). thankfully you can find nachtewy's work all over the world.
nachtwey's project is really ambitious and hopefully successful in it's aims. his TED lecture is amazing and worth listening to.
without question, TED continues to be absolutely amazing.
on a lighter note, casey verberkmoes has a new launch on his website and you can see his sweet storyboarding skills here.
and lastly, pdn online wanted to have a "shootout" between the 4K red one camcorder and the new 5d mark II. it's true, the world has gone mad with the release of the new 5d (evidence forthcoming...if that's not enough already).
while i've never seen footage from a 4k red one camcorder, i'm super reluctant to put the 5d mark II up against any 4k video file. even for fun. yes, the 5d mark II is mind-blowing but it's not a film camera. it's still a dslr.
pdn online does note that it would be "apples to oranges" (agreed), however, they later go on to boldly state, "how quickly the photographers were able to adapt to shooting commercials in HD+." and, "Videographers should be afraid...very afraid." again, i'm super reluctant to agree with this simply because post production on the video side of things is vastly different than post production with still images. it's another world when dealing with nonlinear editing (how much post was applied to reverie?). i'm uncertin whether a photographer could be an overnight videographer. coming from a film background i have some experience with it. yes, it's true, i'm not a autodesk editor but i encounter so many photographers who know very little (if anything at all) about editing video, dealing with codecs and media conversion - all keys to video. but then again that's why we have editors...but when pnd says "videograhpher" - it sounds like an all inclusive job discription to me...
and photograph doesn't always mean film. i believe vincent laforet's video "reverie" was amazing (the link has been pulled because everyone in the world watched it) but i don't know if a 5d hd video justifies anyone speeding across the city at night wearing sunglasses (is that a logical narrative device?). the blues brothers did it (possibly the terminator?) but i don't know if it's still an acceptable practice (the blues brothers being lazily cool and the terminator having a gun, the dude in reverie having a...dreamy super ego?). but then again, vincent laforet is vincent laforet and if anyone can get away with it, he probably can. maybe that's why they had to put "speedracer" on a helicopter, because he couldn't see driving at night with his sunglasses...
at the end of the day, i don't think videographers have anything to be afraid of...well, maybe driving at night on roads where people wear sunglasses.
there it is.
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6.10.08
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