Videos of the Week

The long awaited new album from Bonobo emerged very recently along with the first promo for single ‘First Fires’ and I love it. Great job by Young Replicant who are also responsible for the equally impressive video ‘Chained’ by The xx which is also hosted on their site via the link above.

Bonobo – First Fires from Young Replicant on Vimeo.

Another short instalment from Lonely Leap and then I should probably leave them alone for a while for fear of them feeling web stalked! What can I say, they’re very annoyingly clever over there. This short looks at Photographer Chris Burkard directed by Jeff Taylor.

Chris Burkard – Photographer from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo.

This is quite something; when the volcanic ash cloud fiasco happened back in 2010, your first thought probably wouldn’t be to try and get over to Iceland in an attempt to capture some cinematic footage of it unfolding. Well, Sean Stiegemeier did just that. Was it worth it? Hell yes.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

This next video is via one of my regularly visited blogs, Dezeen. ‘Tweets sent to this machine are transmitted from one form of media to another and cannibalised at every stage until they emerge as distorted, printed headlines.’ (With some quite amusing results I might add.) You’ll need to watch via this link because of embed permissions.

My admiration for the work of Diego Contreras has been no secret on my blog and his latest video shows his first experiment with the much discussed Black Magic Cinema Camera.

Conyne Eylandt [BMCC Test] from Diego Contreras on Vimeo.

Lastly, if you’re at a loss as to what to do this bank holiday, why not get Lost in Manhattan with Gunther Gheeraert?

Lost in Manhattan from Gunther Gheeraert on Vimeo.

Enjoy the bank holiday.

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Videos of the Week

I’ve got some gooduns this week and I even had to leave a few out of the line up for fear of overload. The five here are the best group of ones that I’ve enjoyed this week including work by Lonely Leap, Callum Cooper and Mark Bader.

First though, we go to the birthplace of John Wyver, the man behind Illuminations, to Whitstable for a seaside story about whelkman.

The Whelkman of Whitstable Harbour from Vern Cummins on Vimeo.

Callum Cooper, a Royal College of Art graduate explores the segregation of class in Britain by finely stitching together 4,000 photos of different London houses from postcode E6 to SW7. A quite remarkable device was used in order to make this film possible and you can see it all become clear here: http://bit.ly/YZldaA

Victoria, George, Edward and Thatcher from Callum Cooper on Vimeo.

Next a double whammy from New York and London based production company Lonely Leap. The first is a rather brilliant promotional video for the Music course at Goldsmiths University. This is the kind of thing that makes me wish I was still a student! You’ll need to go here to watch it though because of embedding permissions. The second is an award winning film that forms part of a three part series made about Kew Gardens. Each of the episodes are fascinating to watch and can be found within the Lonely Leap Vimeo channel here. My choice of the trio is the investigation of the Fungarium.

KEW GARDENS – Beyond the Gardens: The Fungarium from LONELYLEAP on Vimeo.

I think I’m going to start making a habit of finishing these posts with a creative process film until I have made my own to show you. This last one comes from Mark Bader about Brickett Davda Ceramics. It is just SO beautiful, that is all.

Brickett Davda Ceramics – handmade in england from Mark Bader on Vimeo.

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