New Beginning 2009 – Music Video

This video took me about a week to put together.

For dear Siena Malia Silverburn:

Details at StarfishStories.wordpress.com.

Code Hunters

Cool!

Agency: MTV Asia
Executive Producer: Charmaine Choo
Production Company: Blinkink
Producer: Bart Yates
Director: Ben Hibon
Screenplay: Ben Hibon
Concept and Storyboard: Ben Hibon

Rat-racing Hamsters

I took this video when I passed by a pet store. Noticed these particularly frisky hamsters that kept piling themselves onto the wheel. My wife and I found them hilarious!

Music by jacinda espinosa
“Uh-oh…”
2009 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
http://ccmixter.org/files/jacindae/19581

Dolphins Galaxia music video

After the song was completed, I decided to see if I could piece together a music video. Here’s the result:

Details over at SeaStars 2007. Thanks to Jeremy for giving me the chance to showcase the video at the Songcraft mini-concert.

Credits:

Videos

• Among Dolphins by BlueVoiceOrg
• Animation: Dawn Asteroid Mission by NASA
• Dolphins Swim in the Wild! by DolphinDVD
• EARTH IN ORBIT by dreamswithindreams
• Hubblecast 01: The Comet Galaxy by rshida
• Solar system in Milky way by mpcb
• Space Earth Universe view by inpureheart
• Star Timelapse by jrzedevl
• Time-lapse Moonrise by rougepark

Photos

• Milky Way over Farley Mount by Fragments of Eternity
• The Milky Way Galaxy before moonrise by Computer Science Geek

This work by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. For permissions beyond the scope of this license , please contact via RamblingLibrarian@gmail.com.

Photoshop demo: Illustration of John Locke of LOST

Thanks to Siva for alerting this to me:

More videos from the artist, macpulenta.

Machinima: Building my first guitar in Second Life

Kevin produced this video, while I showed him how I constructed a guitar in Second Life. The background music was from this song that I composed earlier.

He’s blogged about it here, and here’s my post at Rambling Librarian.

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We’re all talented in some ways

We’re all talented in some ways. It’s a matter of how we make the best of our limited abilities and maximise what we’re good at. Like this guy here.

Via Billy.

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Creative advertisment

There are quite a lot of artistic and creative ideas in modern advertising, like this TV ad by a UK telecoms company.

A simple idea that’s beautifully executed. They choreographed and filmed a bunch of people from a plan-view (i.e. top down), with the people (dressed in plain colours) standing up, linking arms and moving in sync where needed. I especially like how they simulated movements of the wheels of the baby-pram (3rd scene), and the ball being thrown (4th scene).

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“Draw Your Style” – Shiseido TV commercial

Spotted this from Youtube.com. It’s a TV commercial by the Japanese cosmetics company, Shiseido. As much as I would like to describe the video, I shan’t spoil the surprise : )

I wonder how something like that is done… markings on the floor? Creative stuff!

Sand Art Performance

This clip is about 9mins long, and it’s worth taking a look. It’s more than just Sand Art. It’s a performance — the art “pieces” are “drawn” in sync with the music (from Kitaro, I believe) and in quick succession. I was simply captivated by the performance. Enough said — watch it yourself.

At the end of the video, the artist wrote the letters “SICAF Seoul 2003″. I learnt via a Google search that SICAF stood for “Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival”.