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Project info @ vimeo.com/channels/keithloutitssydney

Thanks to Eddie Bezalel & the 'Headless Heroes'

Artist: Headless Heroes
Title: The North Wind Blew South
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Written by Philamore Lincoln (ASCAP)
(P) 2008 Headless Heroes, LLC
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Artist Info: keithloutit.com

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Arnaud LECAT 1 year ago

Reeeeally nice !
BumKi Cho 1 year ago

Wow. Keith, I just watched all of your videos. Funny I kept having to remind myself these are not miniature stuff. Are they? Still hard to believe...

Seriously the wedding photo op scene looks unreal.

Great videos.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

thanks oneman
Lucasberg (Joey) 1 year ago

I love these.
Faye 1 year ago

Sweeeet.
I agree with OneMan - wedding thingy was the niftiest part.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

thank you faye!
Ryan Ragona 1 year ago

I love the wedding part, and also when you're looking over the entire harbour. Great stuff!
Sebastian Jasiorkowski 1 year ago

everything is so surreal.
Pigeon Pictures 1 year ago

superb! ...actually as always.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

thanks pigeon. I really like your timelapse work.
Martin Whipp 1 year ago

Gorgeous stuff Keith. Keep em coming!

I quite liked the Manly ferry, just before the wedding sequence myself.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Thanks martin.
Raffaele Mariotti 1 year ago

really nice, and the locations are awesome
nachoad 1 year ago

Absolutamente genial. ¿Qué objetivo descentrable utilizas?
Roman 1 year ago

great work in all videos; my brain is still confused, perfect illusion - perfect work.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

thanks roman!
Bruno Mueller 1 year ago

Lovely work Keith!
My favourite part was the yachts looking back towards the bridge.
Chad Beaty 1 year ago

Tilt-shifting fun! Very cool indeed! I'm definitely showing this to everyone! And it gave me a GREAT idea!
Joel 1 year ago

I love these. Now, if I could get these on my apple TV I would be sharing with more people. Good stuff.
Juan Falla 1 year ago

Totally amazing. And now a days you don't often see things that "amaze us" that easy.
Question: why does it look like miniatures?

I'm blown away by this. The images (shots) are really a-ma-zing!
eeegor meeeleee 1 year ago

awwww...man, these videos are just FANTASTIC...
*i must be dreaming*
Va Pe 1 year ago

looks like toys
Laszlo Szabad 1 year ago

Very cool stuff, love your videos.
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Keith Loutit 1 year ago

ha.... That's a first. :)
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Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Thanks Daniel - Yes kids r way to smart to be fooled by these.
peter koeppen 1 year ago

Keith, as someone who has spent time on medium and large formats I can only be humbled by your vision and forethought.
The world is your oyster my friend, enjoy
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Peter - That's a great compliment - Thank you.
Belzebuth33 1 year ago

My God!
This one steels the show, a wedding, birds, the moon, what more can a girl ask for?
You are welcome to come here in Montreal, Canada, anytime, the winter is soon upon us, I am sure you could make great clips.
Keep it up, we need more people like you!
Darren S 1 year ago

Hypnotising. Your best yet. IMHO one of your strengths is capturing movement of wind and water in a human context and finding the perfect soundtrack to accompany your visuals. This short has all the makings of a future series of projects where you document 'A Day In The Life' of a particular location. As Belzebuth33 suggests I'd love to see how you portray humanity using snow and ice (water in a different state).
Benjamin Jones 1 year ago

This is brilliant. Might be a silly question but was DOF created with a lens of done in photoshop afterwards? I presume the latter?... Or both. So nice.
adrian bannister 1 year ago

Fascinating - The next time the 'wind blows south' You should come down to Stanwell Park and film us hang gliding... I think it would look great.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Adrian - Drop me a not through my website so we can get in touch and do this.
Mikey Mathewson 1 year ago

Fantastic to see you using a Mac to do such great videos. Love ya work!
Sergio A. Catalá Gómez 1 year ago

awesome!
sublime!
Tony Hollingsworth 1 year ago

Keith
Absolutely fantastic thanks for sharing these. Makes me proud to be Australian having such talent showing off the beauty of our city of Sydney to the world, in such a unique way. Your patience in producing these reminded me of the Aardman animation guys (Wallace and Gromit) - hard work really pays off. Look forward to further updates.

Best regards,
Tony Hollingsworth
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

thanks Tony!
Michael Davies 1 year ago

damn i love this!
Rob Sawyer 1 year ago

I admire your work. You definitely have a unique technique.
Stephen 1 year ago

I watch this video time and time again. It's just amazing, and the soundtrack just adds to it, (The North Wind Blew South) I travel a lot for work, and show my friends overseas this video, and they are blown away! Absolutely amazing work Keith. I want this on Blu-Ray!
anri hg 1 year ago

love it
Wouter 1 year ago

Just awsome.

What kind of camera are you using for this??

Greetings from Holland

Wouter
johnlew 1 year ago

Brilliant! Just saw the video on MTV TWO, and I thought to myself "I'm sure I've seen videos like that on Vimeo before" .. sure enough it wasn't just someone ripping you off!
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Thanks for letting me know Scart - I'd heard from the Headless Heroes that it was getting some airtime in the UK. Cheers,
Pierre 1 year ago

Ditto the comment above. Word for word.

It was just on this second and I immediately thought of Vimeo. I had to come here to make sure!

Congratulations! It's a wonderful and appropriate piece.
Keith Loutit 1 year ago

Pierre - Thanks for looking out!
BorisG 11 months ago

Man, this is amazing idea and amazing video!
Don Perkins 11 months ago

Excellent. Now, I think an international airport video would be cool to see in this technique. Maybe add just a few more fps. Lol, or film a nude beach haha.
Tisiwoota 11 months ago

actually, speaking of nudity-- you could team up with Spencer Tunick, who is famous for um, mass nude public art: spencertunick.com/bio.html

a friend of mine worked with a gallery that represented him, so seriously, if you'd like to get in touch...
Jeffrey Butler 11 months ago

great stuff, keith...
chris rees 11 months ago

Now I am just watching these again and again. The song is stuck in my head and tiny people swimming and the bride and the little boy in the suit, and the monks from 'Helpless' with their hats All in my head - I am a changed man.

Are you about 30 feet tall?
Keith Loutit 11 months ago

that made me laugh Chris!
Garrett Brady 11 months ago

i love this i worked in icebergs as a chef a few years back now im back in england wishing i was there. have a great xmas x gar
Angus Macsac 11 months ago

wow! I have really enjoyed this - it reminded me at several different points in your videos of several different points in time from my childhood. I think it was the "miniature" feel to the footage and the way you showed that using the narrow focus - thanks man! well done!
rohan 10 months ago

Is it just me or did the miniature kid at the wedding take a leak in the garden while his mother waited? @1:05
randy 10 months ago

impressed by tilt-shift photography, but tilt-shift video is absolutely amazing. this video is the best i've seen yet.
garbanzo beans 10 months ago

Keith,

I think you are looking at the World upside down. You can stand on your head to correct this. It (the World) doesn't move in such a herky jerky fashion.

Though I hope to see more of your videos, I am worried you may fall off the planet if you don't ground yourself soon.

Congratulations,

GB
Keith Loutit 10 months ago

Garbanzo - Thanks for the warning!
Emil Bergh 10 months ago

Awesomeness
ben 10 months ago

lol @ hitchhiker at 1:57
Keith Loutit 10 months ago

Hi Ben - That's the pilot returning to his boat after steering the ship safely through Sydney Harbour. Keith.
kirk deason 10 months ago

I'm not even sure how I got here, but that was an absolutely beautiful video. Strong work, Keith. Strong work.
Deepfresh 10 months ago

amazing
0xC0FF33 10 months ago

nice one!
J Meyer 10 months ago

At first I thought this was really ordinary but as I continued this watch it became more interesting in the shots where some of the objects and people looked more like toys blurring reality visually. Interesting stuff, kudos.
Andrew Alexander 10 months ago

Every once in a while, you come across a video that makes you glued to the screen, while everything else around you fades out, temporarilty transporting you to another place...

ALL of your tilt-shift timelapse video are like that, Keith. Absolutely spectacular. It also helps that I've been to many of the places you show in your videos!
Mark Barner 10 months ago

i really admire your colors and focus on all your clips... Well done!
dan marner 10 months ago

Perfection. Adam Buxton showed some of your Vimeo vids at the Bug music video festival Thursday night. Oddly, I had just seen this Headless Heoroes video on MTV 2 the night before. I am now a devoted tilt-shift convert. Keep calm and carry on, my good man: can't wait to see what you'll come up with next.
martin sullivan 9 months ago

Keith, I love your work , top marks man. I Also admire your openness in sharing your techniques, now that is the sign of a very cool human being. Keep it up. As someone else commented, the world truly is your oyster.
Jeff Gammons 9 months ago

Great time lapse video! I love how the camera is perched up high in all the scenes making it look like a busy small world down there. The people in the water and the sail boats in the bay were great.
Peter McKinnon 9 months ago

Great! Alot of that doesn't even look real! Sweet.
Carl Olson 9 months ago

Shazaam! I felt like Gulliver :)
sonfilmizle 9 months ago

super thank blue video
Joe Anderson 9 months ago

Great job on tilt/shift effect. You really pulled out that diorama type faux miniature look.
Aaron Reason 9 months ago

You are the best tilt shift videographer.
Cahaba Rocks 9 months ago

Whoa, did someone on a Sea-doo get ran over at 1:57?
Andrew Wilson 9 months ago

Absolutely love it. Makes the world look so peaceful and harmonious for a while. Thank you!

Is the blurring a particular lens or is it an effect added afterwards?
Andrew Wilson 9 months ago

I have just seen the comment above mentioning tilt-shift. I will look it up on wikipedia. :-)
Paul Wong 9 months ago

Reminds me of the old TV show Mr. Rogers for some reason. Super stuff!
haikugarry 9 months ago

i love this...maybe the first time i have seen a tilt shift style video....perfect looking.
Holocactus 9 months ago

nice.
Cosmonauta 9 months ago

great work!
Clan McCloud 9 months ago

some of the best tilt-shift video I've ever seen! love it!
EpicMovies 9 months ago

LOL It is beautiful!
Jeffrey Smith 9 months ago

Yeah this reminds me of this photographer whose been doing this for years... cityshrinker.com/ Great job though never seen this technique in video form.
Keith Loutit 9 months ago

Thanks Jeffrey - There are plenty who have shot stills (and some film) in this style before me. Check out Olivo Barbieri, Toni Hafkenscheid, Mark Rader & Miklos Gaal. Cheers, KL.
Bob Corbett 9 months ago

Dude that was sooo coooll ! Was that a Magic Bullet looks filter?
Felix Goebel 9 months ago

lovely- after a grey and rainy northern california day, i watched them all - hypnotized by easy listening and sanbox- mankind at "play"...more, I can't wait...
excellent work!
Bob Corbett 9 months ago

I'm sill wondering how you get the look? Is it a lens or a software filter?
Keith Loutit 9 months ago

Hi Bob, sorry for not responding - The effect is created through Tilt shift lenses. Cheers, KL.
Melinda Kerr 8 months ago

Man that is exceptional...absolutely exceptional. Sorry this is such a lam comment but words fail me...
dfgugf 8 months ago

love it too
Marc 8 months ago

I'm so glad you're from Sydney Keith, you make our city look amazing!
Keith Loutit 8 months ago

it is amazing! Thanks Marc.
Will Gannon 8 months ago

Your films are very inspiring. can you give me some insight on the work needed to make a video like this? (time shooting, editing, etc.)
What equipment do you use?
Keith Loutit 8 months ago

Hi Will,
These films all have between 3,000 and 8,000 stills in the final film - but the amount shot and wasted varies greatly, depending on the subject. Some shoots like Metal Heart, Mardi Gras and Helpless are all shot in a single day / event. Other films like Bathtub IV take months of shooting, and many tens of thousands of stills. Cheers, KL.
Erin Nicole 8 months ago

I love all of your videos, but this is my favorite.
Keith Loutit 7 months ago

Hey Erin - thank you!
S. Angular 7 months ago

Great work!! It looks like live stop-motion with a vew camera.. hence the ultra-high definition of focused areas....Great work!!
kumakuma 7 months ago

beaautiful video. thanks for sharing.

i really like the song, too. it's part of an album of cover songs--can anyone please tell me who wrote the original???
Starbox media 7 months ago

people like a toys)