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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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This is a truly amazing piece of observational documentary. ‘The Sandpit’ is a five minute sequence that documents a day in the life of New York city in miniature form. Even after reading an interview with the creator, I still can’t fully understand or comprehend how he managed to produce such an amazing piece. It uses a combination of post production tilt shift lens technology, heavy color grading and stop motion animation techniques to create such a miniature looking effect. I feel like there is a lot of time lapse stuff out there at the moment and it can be over used at times but, this piece really shows how it can be so fascinating when someone brings a fresh originality to it. The motions of the visuals are very similar to the time lapse appearance of films by Emily Richardson such as ‘Redshift’ and ‘Nocturne’.

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