Have you ever watched a short film? Take a few minutes (3 minutes) and check out La Pluma. A couple friends of mine from the Austin area, Jake Hamilton (talented videographer, he’ll be traveling with me next month to film a doc in the UK) and Greg Kwedar (writer/director of the film), recently created a short film called “La Pluma” (the feather). The cinematography of this short is excellent, and the overall film is quite impressive considering they filmed this in only a few hours! Jake and Greg were working in Guatemala, filming a documentary for the organization Safe Passage, when they came up with the idea of creating a short for the online film competition, Doorpost. Doorpost is a great outlet for unique and independent filmmakers to create films that centralize around positive topics such as hope, redemption, forgiveness, etc. La Pluma focuses on the topic of Freedom. Take a few minutes and check it out. If you like what you see then sign in and vote for them! Voting ends May 1 and they need your vote to get to the top ten. My gut says they are well on their way to making it.
PS – I also strongly recommend two other films worth checking out on Doorpost: Awake O’Sleeper – the cinematography and quality of this is sick “Takeout” – comedy films are NOT easy to do. Jonathan Miller made it look easy because his writing of this is great.
Have you heard of “Cloud Technology”?? Chances are you use Cloud and don’t even know it. It’s the next big thing in the world of web hosting, and it’s very very cool. This video was created for Rackspace to introduce their Cloud offering. In the near future, most of the internet you use will be powered by the cloud.
I took my camera for a day into downtown Austin during this year’s SXSW Music Festival. Thousands of people flooded the streets to hear music being performed EVERYWHERE. I’ve never seen an eclectic group of people quite like I did that day. At times it felt like I was in a different era. Simply put – it was awesome.
To capture all the energy and excitement, I decided to overcrank my camera to slow down most of the images. I think this really added a great contrast and helped to capture what it felt like to be there. Watch and let me know what you think! Music by: Andrew Bird
