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1. This is Japan!

3 years ago

Pictures here:
flickr.com/photos/dutchct/collections/72157611329797313/

OH! the song is LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends from Sound of Silver (I'm not affiliated)

You can buy it here:
insound.com/LCD_Soundsystem_Sound_of_Silver__CD/productmain/p/INS34520/

The girl in the video is my beautiful and talented girlfriend: leavesturn.com

Credits

Eric Testroete
Photographer, Editor
Moar and Moar
Partner in crime

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Sugoi 3 years ago

WOW, that was amazing Eric !!!
I loved it, some absolutely awesome shots.
Well done, look forward to more videos from you here on Vimeo :)

Thanks also for adding it to my 'Japan' Group :D
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

Thanks and no problem :)
Zofiafotoeule 3 years ago

Good idea, to show photos! Great shots!
But after the first 2 minutes. I had to look away,
tiring for my eyes ... :)
Thank you! Zofia
gsmith 3 years ago

Fantastic.
wejetset video 3 years ago

great stuff.
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

Thanks for the positive comments.

Zofiafotoeule, some people I showed it to joked that they were getting dizzy or something like that so you're not alone! After cutting and chopping at it for a couple hours i was feeling a little drained as well.

But most of the feedback has been positive despite this! :)
Zofiafotoeule 3 years ago

The images are still fascinating! In flicr I could watch without stress! Wow! Thanks, Eric! Zofia:)
Daniel Hayek 3 years ago

I <3 Japan
Valencia Blog 3 years ago

This is awesome! Is there a software which does this, stitching images together to a video?
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

Most video editing software does it, I used vegas in this case.
Sondre 3 years ago

Love it! Very creative, and music fits perfect, great job!
josiah douglas 3 years ago

wow
Zach B 3 years ago

gorgeous photography, so crisp and vibrant. Maybe a little too over saturated in parts. What did you use to shoot it with?
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

Pentax k20d
trigun0x2 3 years ago

Amazing, love it.
Chris Anderson 3 years ago

loved it!
Goran Zagreb 3 years ago

Amazing! But kinda border-line seizure educing at that pace + length.
Joseph Jang 3 years ago

ohmigosh that was great...but i see everything in pulse now....
Steele O'Neal 3 years ago

Bravo
JO KAMI 3 years ago

BEAUTIFUL! what a wonderful adventure you two both had! definetely puts smiles on my face :) :) :)
Gen Kanai 3 years ago

かっこいい！
Pretty freakin' cool. From a denizen of the city that you captured so interestingly...
Ben Smithett 3 years ago

so cool!
BumKi Cho 3 years ago

What a great video capturing every moment of your trip! I will definitely remember this video on my next trip to.. hmm.. where? all over the world.. when?.. sigh..

Thanks for sharing.
tedece 3 years ago

Nice job !
HONDA 3 years ago

nice tokyo
Nonstopvid 3 years ago

great idea! loved every second
Rob Sawkins 3 years ago

Excellent. Really. Kin. Great.
winifrede walbaum 3 years ago

I've seen it 5 times!
love it
marcus5s 3 years ago

i like it! with many great pictures!
Jason Amor 3 years ago

awesome!
Tom Guilmette 3 years ago

i have never seen anything like this. talk about cramming that into my brain. i feel like i was there. great work.

can you explain the work flow? how did you put all that together? also, are all the pictures up for an equal amount of time? how many total pics? what camera, ect.
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

We never went there with the plan to do this, but one night we were looking at the pictures so far. We held down the button to get through the pictures faster and we noticed it looked fairly cool. I figured it would be a good idea to make a video this way.

I used lightroom to crop and process all the images (its good at doing batch stuff), Métamorphose to rename the exported files into a numbered sequence, sony vegas to cut to music, then virtual dub to compress and scale.

The video is running at 6 frames a second. I originally took 3340 pictures, but doing the math there should be about 2760 images in the video. The camera was a pentax k20d and I brought an external hard drive to save what ended up being 46 gigs in raw files.
TomKreft 2 years ago

im working on a similar idea now, inspired by your video, and using the same music, actually... when you went into sony vegas, was there a way to cut each picture down to the 6 frames a second? or was it exported? or was it jsut very long and tedious like its being for me? :)
Joseph Griffin 3 years ago

so sweet
RogerB1 3 years ago

wow you must be exhusted! very well done..... :o)
Olaf Henze 3 years ago

fantastic!
katman 3 years ago

superbulous!
Wesley Bennett 3 years ago

WWhhhhaattt that was epic. eeeppppiiiccc
Jon Horwitz 3 years ago

that was awesome, dude! that totally just reassured me that as soon as i get the money i'm taking a trip there. haha
Russell Gallagher 3 years ago

I would like to go to Japan before I have a seizure =p
Miki 3 years ago

Beautiful.
Brönnimann 3 years ago

nice way of cutting and it shows a part of the japan culture.
gratulations for this realisation.
Mark Lee 3 years ago

Great work pal!

Pure inspiration and i've always wanted to visit Japan!
blanco 3 years ago

who . .pretty nice shots there.
the stye reminds e a bit of that thing from the island.
nice
Nathan Samora 3 years ago

nice work! Love it...
Nowawes 3 years ago

very special!!! but after 3 minutes it was hardcore for my eyes. 8-) greetings from Germany! All the best for 2009 to you & your beautiful girlfriend!
whalewhisker 3 years ago

Wow wow wow!
Wes Jones 3 years ago

amazing, so epic.
rickflick 3 years ago

nice work. there was a film maker back in the '70s who made this type of film. I forget the name, but the films showed short shots along some theme like u.s. presedents, or patriotic symbols. It was used on tv for awhile.
You have to relax and see it pass by in the blur of non-concentration. Very relaxing.
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

great comment, ive seen one of his films before, but Jen knows the name: Chris Marker

youtube.com/watch?v=1WXMp5BHZ_o
rickflick 3 years ago

Marker is probably not who I was thinking of, but another interesting technique. The one I cant remember did a very fast pased montage of iconic images like flags and buildings and well known faces etc. It had very upbeat and fast music. Not unlike your own. It seems to me now it had the word "American" in the title. Give me a while and it will come to me...
Foraggio 3 years ago

love it - love japan, love this video. brought all the memories of my trip flooding back, so thank you :)
Ginés, Romero 3 years ago

Increible!!!Great shots!!
What lens use?
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

pentax 16-50 f2.8 and pentax fisheye 10-17
Ginés, Romero 3 years ago

thank you!
Steve 3 years ago

Right that's it, as soon as the £ is worth more than tuppence ha'penny I'm on the firsrt plane to Japan. You should sell this in 30 second chunks to the Japanese Tourist Board.
Nick 3 years ago

eclectic photos eclectic places nice eric thank you.
spoon lama 3 years ago

That was amazing that would make a great commercial check out my videos my favriote one of mine is 2009 video but check them out ill never be able to make something like this im showing this to all my friends
Jon Rawlinson 3 years ago

wow! what an awesome video of japan!

works so well with this song!
djibril 3 years ago

Just Beautiful, The way to clean up my heart!
Kevin Twohy 3 years ago

really great job on this.
Alden Dalia 3 years ago

This is awesome man.. reminds me of Le Jetee. I went to Japan over the summer, I visited some the same places you did too! amazing place.
Casey Warren | MINDCASTLE 3 years ago

What a stunning collection of images. Very cool, it has an awesome vibe to it that totally reflects Japan. Love it.
Karen Gilmore 3 years ago

Really captures Japan I loved the pace.
AWI 3 years ago

This is fucking cool!
Cícero Pablo dos Santos 3 years ago

Wow! nice! very nice!
apitel 3 years ago

I could watch this film 100 times and still not take in all it has to offer. Amazing photos, mesmerizing film.
Lifeworks(R) TV 3 years ago

it didn't feel dizzy to me, maybe i was just too impressed with the presentation. awesome job, amazing how much you could do with still pictures and tireless editing.
Renaud 3 years ago

Hypnotic! Bravo.
Mishima San 3 years ago

I loved this Eric, you are truly masterful at what you do :)
Sushiboy 3 years ago

Sugoi desune!!I Such a beautifu and awesome art work!! I was really moved and will tell my frineds.
sublimejdm 3 years ago

very nice !!
marco giovanelli 3 years ago

hi!i'm marco from italy.. great video!
I was in japan in oct.. look my video here:
vimeo.com/2826980
have a good day!
Sylvain Thomin 3 years ago

Very mesmeric.
The music is a very good choice. Well done.
Caleb Andrews 3 years ago

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making this. Not only that, you've provided us with a VERY high quality copy of it that I've put on my PS3 and watched several times now! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This means so much to me to see this! I wish I could know how you knew to go to some of these places!
Jim Jeffers 3 years ago

That was absolutely incredible.
learner-gr 3 years ago

Amazing but only saw 1minute :). I save it to watch it someday with slow motion. Good work
george holt 3 years ago

excellent work.
i've already watched it twice today
veronica bellizzi 3 years ago

Love, love, love!!!! I love japan!
Xander (Alex) Moyler 3 years ago

Amazing, seriously. I couldn't keep my eyes off it for the entire video. <3
Adrian Felipe Pera 3 years ago

Lost in translation. So beauty work. Thank you for sharing it.
João Miguel 3 years ago

Wonderful! But I have to throw up now....
Thierry Laberge 3 years ago

Very nice!

Where did you shoot the little hologram?! I'm going to japan this spring and I would like to see it! thx!
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

Osaka castle. It's more of a rainy day activity.
Mehrdad Ebrahimi 3 years ago

Epic, very creative piece!

Can I ask you what kind of filter you used? Your photos look different in color/contrast!

Great job!
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

The look was done in post production.
Allison 3 years ago

This is beautiful. Do you mind if I link it in my blog? I'm living in Japan for the year and I have a photo blog about it. I would love to share this, I think it really evokes the feeling of Japan. How long were you here? You sure got around!
My site is urbanresearch.wordpress.com - let me know if its ok! Thanks and great job!
Eric Testroete 3 years ago

I'd love for you to post it on your blog! We were there for 21 days.
Allison 3 years ago

great! its been posted
urbanresearch.wordpress.com
let me know if you disapprove!
: )
Montague 3 years ago

Great show!!! If a picture is worth a thousand words how many words are in that video. Oh and you have some interesting photos from 21's to about 25's.
Ashlee Jones 3 years ago

Hey what music did you use on this, i really loved the hole thing.
Ben Harvey 3 years ago

This is great. I love it, especially the jellyfish bit, I think that works really well.
silvertje 3 years ago

Love this beautiful video of your trip. Did you use some kind of Lomo filter on the pictures?
Peet Sneekes 3 years ago

Wow, pretty awesome, combination of music and pictures ... looks like a very nice trip!
katrick3000 3 years ago

love it, even though i have to admit, that my eyes began hurting after 3 minutes - a little bit too fast and hectic. but the sound fits perfectly. nice work.
Hendrik Granna 3 years ago

Its so emotional, i love it.
Wanderlust!
Chris Yap 3 years ago

You must have been following the breadcrumb trail I left on my trip to Japan. This rules! Now an LCD Soundsystem fan as well, thanks! :)
2% 3 years ago

absolutely amazing photos and an even better compilation of them all!
andaa 3 years ago

I want to nominate you for Oscars for your cool job!
Airport Whiskey 3 years ago

I've been here in Japan for five years and 7 days. I feel like I am seeing it again for the first time watching that film. It is an excellent, excellent piece of work and I will point people to it from now on when they ask "So what's it like in Japan?"