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Lexus ~ 'Extraordinary' from ManvsMachine on Vimeo.

Extraordinary things happen when imagination meets technology.

Directed by ManvsMachine for CHI & Partners, we sought to present Lexus as technological visionaries with absolute confidence — integrating Lexus philosophies and innovations into an audiovisual case study of wonder, realigning public perception of the brand, and making something that is just great to watch.

— CREDITS

Client: Lexus

Agency: CHI & Partners

Director: ManvsMachine

Production company: Friend

Executive producer: Luke Jacobs

Line producer: Richard Fenton

Editorial: Trim

Editor: Dominic Leung

VFX company: The Mill

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THE MISSED SPACEFLIGHT - VR Experience from MELT on Vimeo.

After years of abstract motion design we're extremely proud to present our first realistic project !!!

We'd love to show it to everyone in proper VR (like Gear VR), but if you don't own one, just imagine you're in the Soyuz spacecraft and Google Cardboard it maybe? :D

In 1978 Poland got a chance to send its national into outer space. From four brave pilots - one has been chosen, while three of his replacements stayed on the ground. Samsung wanted to make their dream come true and curated this VR experience - inspired by a Soyuz 30 spaceflight.

Read more: vr.bymelt.com/portfolio/48-the_missed_spaceflight or read more on behance: behance.net/gallery/54579357/The-Missed-Spaceflight-VR-Experience-for-Samsung

Client: SAMSUNG Agency: VML Poland

Experience VR by MELT

/ Doświadcz wirtualnej rzeczywistości MELT

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Clara - Mi isla from Nodrizismo on Vimeo.

Una app para empoderar a los menores frente a los abusos sexuales.

Este es el proyecto final de Clara para el Gran Curso de Diseño de Productos Digitales en La Nave Nodriza una escuela donde se aprende haciendo y compartiendo. http://bit.ly/2bFvYhO

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Pursuit (4K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

----- Blu-Ray discs available here: mikeolbinski.com/shop/ Music by Peter Nanasi, find his work here: peternanasi.bandcamp.com/ Follow me: twitter.com/mikeolbinski / facebook.com/mikeolbinskiphotography / instagram.com/mikeolbinski -------

On June 12th, I broke down into tears. Minutes earlier, I had been outside my truck, leaning against it, head buried in my arms, frustration and failure washing over me. I wanted to quit. I got back in the car and as I drove, the pain got the better of me and the tears came.

This past spring was a tough one. Supercell structure and beautiful tornadoes had been very hard to come by. In fact, the tornado in the opening of this film was the only good one I saw this entire year. I had been on the road longer than ever before. Driven more miles. I was away from my family for 12 straight days at one point, and when I got home, I had to tell them I was going back out 24 hours later for June 12th. It was just too good to pass up. It promised to be a day that I could get everything I had been hoping for this spring and I had no choice. My wife understood, even though I knew she wished I stayed home. And I wished it too.

I knew right where I wanted to be that day. But this year I struggled with confidence in trusting my instincts. Maybe it was because the lack of good storms this spring made me question my skills, or maybe it was something else inside of me. Whatever the case, I let myself get twisted and unsure, and found myself 80 miles away from where I had wanted to be when the tornadoes started to drop and the best structure of the year materialized in the sky. The photos from Twitter and Facebook started to roll in and I knew I had missed everything.

It may not be easy to understand why, but when you work as hard as I did this spring, a moment like that can break you. I felt like I let my wife down. But mostly I let myself down. I forgot who I was and that's not me. Or it shouldn't have been me. I failed myself. And it seemed like the easy choice to just give up and head for home.

But I didn't. I'm not sure why, but the pain slowly began to subside. I realized it was only 4pm and the storms were still ongoing. Maybe if I could get in front of them the day could be saved. Ninety minutes later, I got out ahead and saw some of the best structure I'd seen all spring and a lightning show that was so incredible it's one of the very last clips of this film.

And that's why this film is called "Pursuit." Because you can't give up. Keep chasing, keep pursuing. Whatever it is. That's the only way to get what you want.

I learned something about myself on June 12th which carried over to the final few days of chasing this spring. I trusted myself again and those days were incredibly rewarding. This was who I'd been all along but had forgotten. I can't wait for next year.

The work on this film began on March 28th and ended June 29th. There were 27 total days of actual chasing and many more for traveling. I drove across 10 states and put over 28,000 new miles on the ol' 4Runner. I snapped over 90,000 time-lapse frames. I saw the most incredible mammatus displays, the best nighttime lightning and structure I've ever seen, a tornado birth caught on time-lapse and a display of undulatus asperatus that blew my mind. Wall clouds, massive cores, supercell structures, shelf clouds...it ended up being an amazing season and I'm so incredibly proud of the footage in this film. It wasn't the best year in storm chasing history...but I got to chase storms and share it with you guys. All worth it.

I wanted to do something new this year, so I worked with composer Peter Nanasi to develop a custom track for Pursuit. I'm super excited about it and loved the process of exchanging ideas and building the song as the editing of the film progressed. I am so thankful to Peter for what he came up with, I'm in love with this track!

The time away from my family turned out to be over a month all told. I'm always and continually blessed by a wife who supports what I do and backs me completely. But not only do I have her to thank this spring, but also her parents who hung around for a good chunk of May and early June, to help out wherever needed, watch the kids, run errands and generally be there for Jina. I don't have enough words to convey how appreciative I am for them being around while I was gone.

I think that's about it. I could write a lot more, but I'd rather you watch the film and hopefully have a taste of what I saw this spring. There is nothing quite like strong inflow winds, the smell of rain and the crack of thunder. I miss being out there already.

I hope you enjoy and I'll do my best to answer any questions in the comments below!

Technical Details:

I used two Canon 5DSR's along with a Canon 11-24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and Sigma Art 50mm. Manfrotto tripods. The final product was edited in Lightroom with LR Timelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

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Travel in Asia from OOPS!sidedown on Vimeo.

A few months ago we went on our first trip to South East Asia. This video is a collection of vivid moments we've captured on our way just to never forget all the places we have fallen in love with.

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Filmed with Panasonic GH4

lenses: Panasonic Lumix Vario 12-35, f/2.8, Metabones Speed Booster + Nikkor 35mm f/1.8, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8

music: Ryan Taubert - Limitless voice: Alan Watts - Time & the more it changes

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FRACTAL - 4k StormLapse from Chad Cowan on Vimeo.

Connect with me on these social media channels for more stuff like this: instagram.com/stormtimelapse twitter.com/stormtimelapse facebook.com/stormlapse

The ingredient based explanation for supercell thunderstorms cites moisture, wind shear, instability and lift as the reasons for their formation. I prefer to focus on the big picture. Supercell thunderstorms are a manifestation of nature's attempt to correct an extreme imbalance. The ever ongoing effort to reach equilibrium, or entropy, is what drives all of our weather, and the force with which the atmosphere tries to correct this imbalance is proportional to the gradient. In other words, the more extreme the imbalance, the more extreme the storm.

This collection of timelapses was gathered over the last six years from Texas to North Dakota and everywhere in between. The project started out as wanting to be able to see the life-cycles of these storms, just for my own enjoyment and to increase my understanding of them. Over time, it morphed into an obsession with wanting to document as many photogenic supercells as I could, in as high a resolution as possible, as to be able to share with those who couldn't see first-hand the majestic beauty that comes alive in the skies above America's Great Plains every Spring. After more than 100,000 miles on the road and tens of thousands of shutter clicks later, this is the result. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Keep an eye out for a much longer version of FRACTAL, hopefully on a much larger screen. If you have any ideas regarding distribution to that end or would like to license my work for your own project, please contact me.

I love teaching people about storms and severe weather and how to safely document them. Feel free to email me if you have any interest in joining me for a chase. June is by far the best time to go out, as the storms are more photogenic and slow moving than any other month.

I'm always open to any sort of work outside of storm season. Let's create something! Open to all inquiries: [email protected]

Chase on.

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"Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls, and so on to viscosity." - Meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson ("Weather Prediction by Numerical Process." Cambrige University Press, 1922)

This quote sums up perfectly what I've come to realize about weather and storms over the past 10 years of studying, forecasting and chasing them, and the part that I find most fascinating. On each scale level from synoptic-scale, which covers areas the size of multiple states, all the way down to micro-scale, which could be an area as small as your backyard, the fluid which we call air abides by the same universal physical laws of nature and thus acts in a very similar manner and patterns.

A cold front, for example, is a phenomenon which is widely understood to mean a large scale line of advancing cold air, hundreds of miles long, along which supercell thunderstorms sometimes form. Within these smaller storm-scale environments, something called a rear-flank gust front forms on the southern end of the low pressure area of the mesocyclone, where the rain cooled air wraps around. This is effectively a storm's cold front. The cool air is more dense than the warm air, and because of this, advances into the region of lower density, just like the larger cold front on which the storm formed.

The stunning supercell storm structure we see is along these relatively small, storm-scale cold fronts. This is what forms the "hook" on radar. Here, just as with the larger scale weather systems, the wedge of denser cool air at the surface meets the warm, moist, buoyant air in front of a storm, forcing it aloft and through the cap where the potential energy is realized. Given the right conditions, this development can be explosive.

While Richardson's quote is more regarding turbulence than thermodynamics, his theory from nearly 100 years ago that our atmosphere behaves as a fractal has turned out to be spot on. A "top down" transfer of energy and behavior occurs, resulting in a Russian nesting doll of smaller scale systems that bear a striking resemblance to the larger.

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I would like to offer a special thanks to my good friend Kevin X Barth who helped me edit this together, and found some semblance of a story arc in many disparate pieces. Kevin is an amazingly talented and creative artist in his own right, having won an Emmy as the editor of the ESPN 30 for 30 film WHEN THE GARDEN WAS EDEN. Check out his website if you're looking for an excellent editor or director for your project: kevinxbarth.com

A big thanks to Tom Lowe as well, without whom I would probably still be trying to figure out what an intervelometer is. Tom is the mastermind behind Timescapes, the revolutionary timelapse film from a few years ago. He was kind enough to share his wealth of knowledge, as well as some camera gear.

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Undulatus Asperatus Sunset (4K, 8K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

All spring I chase storms across the United States to collect footage of supercells, lightning, tornadoes and whatever I might find. Generally I don't release any time-lapse clips from those chases until I put out my final end of season compilation film. But last night in North Dakota was too unreal to let sit on my hard drive for months.

We were chasing northeast of Bismarck, North Dakota and as storms were dying out, we decided to go for a lone cell on the backside of a line of storms. We knew it had a hail core on it and we were hoping that we might get some nice sunset color at least on the storm as it moved past us, and hopefully some lightning bolts. But we had no idea what we were about to encounter. The clouds were taking on a very different, curvy, wave-like appearance and suddenly we knew what we were seeing.

Undulatus asperatus clouds are a rare phenomenon and actually the newest named cloud type in over 60 years. I've seen tons of photos of them, but never anything like what we witnessed last night. We had a storm with hail in front of us and flashing lightning which was fantastic. But then we had this layer of undulatus clouds flowing across our view. Watching them was amazing already, but then the sun slowly appeared from behind some clouds to the west and lit up our storm like nothing we've ever seen before. We were like kids in a candy store. Running around, doing our best to capture it from every possible angle.

I did two time-lapses...one on the right side with a 50mm and then a wide angle with the 11mm. The colors here are real. I only increased the contrast. In fact, I was thinking of actually REDUCING the saturation because of how intense the colors looked with the contrast added. But that's how it was and I left it that way. Six of us were there and all our photo and videos look the same.

This was undoubtedly one of the most incredible scenes I've witnessed chasing storms for the past 8 years.

Music: "Bayt Lahm" by Ryan Taubert

Gear: Two Canon 5DSR's, Canon 11-24mm, Sigma Art 50mm 1.4

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Remember Aurora from Jesse Vogelaar on Vimeo.

Shit people in relationships say.

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Avicii - One Last Time [Audio]

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TheWaveVR: What We're About from adam arrigo on Vimeo.

thewavevr.com

video by weengageagency.com

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Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars 360° Trailer | Stereoscopic from LIFE VR on Vimeo.

Buzz Aldrin wants to be remembered for more than just "kicking up moon dust." He wants his legacy to include laying the groundwork for a permanent human settlement on Mars, and he has a plan. As NASA prepares to send the first humans to Mars, LIFE VR, TIME and 8i have collaborated with the Apollo astronaut and historical icon to create a one of a kind virtual reality experience.

In the world’s first holographic ‘archival VR’ project, created by 8i, viewers will have a unique opportunity to ‘meet’ and the astronaut through his hologram today.

Dr. Aldrin is an American astronaut best known for piloting the Lunar Module on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, and the one of the first men to set foot on the moon. While it was a historic achievement, he wants his legacy to include laying the groundwork for a permanent human settlement on Mars, and he has a plan.

In Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars, travel with a photorealistic 3D hologram of Dr. Aldrin from his landing site on the moon to Mars where he’ll show you first hand his plan for inhabiting the Red Planet.

To create the hologram, Aldrin was recorded by 8i using volumetric capture and proprietary technology that brings photorealistic holograms of humans into virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in an easy and scalable way. The environment was created by 8i in collaboration with Loot and with stunning visual effects from FuseFX and is appropriate for all ages. It was produced by 8i in partnership with Soylent.

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BroomBroom from Erika Marthins on Vimeo.

Do objects sometimes dream about themselves? What if we could enter their dreams? Virtual reality? Connected objects?

Ever since they appeared, we have been worshipping the objects around us while being extremely demanding of them. What if the roles were reversed for once? Instead of asking objects to make us dream, why don’t we consider their own dreams? Premonitory dreams that anticipate a possible future of objects?

BroomBroom offers visitors a rather unsettling experience. In order to uncover its subtleties they will have to learn to adjust to the object to perceive it’s personality. Designed to be handled from a particular angle. Controlling them unveils a universe of staggering proportions.

In a certain way, this project as a whole leads us to question the future of familiar objects. How does our relationship to them changes as they become capable of making a statement about their own existence, interact by using onboard sensors and grow increasingly connected to our communication networks? Do I see my toothbrush differently knowing that it records each movement in my mouth and therefore displays a form of consciousness?

BroomBroom integrates a virtual reality principle which allows you to literally look inside the broom, to immerse yourself for a time into a parallel reality which the object let you glimpse at.

The object BroomBroom, whose function is but fiction, tell it’s own story, encouraging us to see and use it differently. In a playful manner, it lead us to rethink some of our distrust in the face of change and as regards, the future.

Erika Marthins & Hélène Portier ECAL 2016

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Fistful Of Stars from Eliza McNitt on Vimeo.

FISTFUL OF STARS is the world’s first Virtual Reality exploration of the cosmos alongside the Hubble Telescope that transports you inside of the Orion Nebula and reveals the cosmic connections between humans and the stars. World Premiere at SXSW 2017.

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https://soundcloud.com/willssanders/clean-bandit-symphony-feat-zara-larsson

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HYPER-REALITY from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media. If you are interested in supporting the project, sponsoring the next work or would like to find out more, please send a hello to [email protected]

by Keiichi Matsuda | km.cx more at hyper-reality.co

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Pregame from Jeff Chan on Vimeo.

A group of friends collapses under the pressure of New Years Eve.

A short film by Jeff Chan & Andrew Rhymer

Shot with an ARRI Amira

Cast: Scarlett Bermingham, Christine Bullen, Maya Erskine, Brian McElhaney, Nick Reinhardt, Aaron Schroeder, Patrick Woodall DP: Guy Godfree 1st AC: Daniel Worlock Production Designer: Francesca Palombo Art Assistant: Katherine Reed Production Sound: Anthony Kozolowski Post Sound Mixer: Steve Oliver

“Auld Lang Syne” performed by Alex Bleeker

Executive Producers: Matt Campbell & Greg Beauchamp

A Bindery Film See more @ binderynyc.com

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A Movie Poster A Day from Pete Majarich on Vimeo.

In 2016, I designed a movie poster a day. Here's a compilation of every single one. You can see the posters in full at amovieposteraday.tumblr.com. You can also view more about the project at instagram.com/petemajarich. Select posters are available to purchase at craftandgraft.co