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"Three Cubes Colliding"

Ivan Morison and Heather Peak (morison.info),
in collaboration with Sash Reading (sashreading.tumblr.com)
and Queen and Crawford (queenandcrawford.com)

Commissioned by Dandara Ltd for the Chart Room, Castle Quay.

Filmed on a 5dmk2 @ 1080p25 & 7D 720p50
Time Lapse @ 0:57 Dynamic Perception Rail

Lens Info:

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L
Canon EF 85mm f1.2L
Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8
Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift

Music: Vacuum Garden by Squarepusher

Photography by Matt Porteous
mattporteousblog.com/#2490047/Three-Cubes-Colliding
facebook.com/mattporteousphotography
jimandtonic.co.uk

Made at The Observatory (beobserved.com)

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  • kAssim norris 2 months ago
    Looks awesome...what did you use to color and how did you achieve this grade?
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    Graded in Premiere with Magic looks. just playing around until I was happy. I was aiming for a hazy flat look, adding a little bit of blue into the shadows, and a pinkish tint. Both cameras were set to the their standard off the shelf profiles.
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  • Asaad Dowe 2 months ago
    great video, what song is this
  • Matias Baldanza 1 month ago
    boingboing.net
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  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    wow, I'm getting a lot of hits on this film, can some enlighten me where they are seeing it. My embed stats are all over the place. Thanks to everyone for all the likes!
  • Morten McFish 2 months ago
    todayandtomorrow brought me here:
    todayandtomorrow.net/2011/12/22/little-shining-man/
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    thanks
  • Frederick Wright 2 months ago
    For me, it was Gizmodo.com. I'm an engineering student, and a large portion of the people I know are Gizmodo readers. Not that it'll bring much attention to the video, but I'm also sharing it on Facebook and Google+ as of moments ago.
  • Ondrej Dolejsi 2 months ago
    I got here from laboiteverte.fr/avions-et-cerf-volants-tetraedrique/
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    thanks!
  • Mark Linnane plus 2 months ago
    Boingboing. Yay!
    boingboing.net/2011/12/23/cool-kite-made-from-3d-printed.html
    What is the music?
  • Dan Gamage 2 months ago
    A friend posted it on Google+
  • francisco canton 1 month ago
    Belio Magazine
  • Zac C 1 month ago
    I found this on Tumblr through Laughing Squid

    laughingsquid.com/three-cubes-colliding-a-beautiful-cube-shaped-kite-sculpture/
  • neuron 1 month ago
    Through my subscriptions.
    It says:
    Added to The Vimeo HD Channel.
    :)
  • Ian Crawford 1 month ago
    ThinkGeek.com linked this video on their weekly "Cool Stuff on the Internet" blog.

    thinkgeek.com/blog/2012/01/theres-a-kitten-in-here-somewh.html

    Very cool project! Very eerie video!
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  • Robot Activate plus 2 months ago
    Just posted on my blog robotactivate.com/2011/three-cubes/
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  • Rachel Mersky plus 2 months ago
    really beautiful grade. ethereal!
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    glad you like it, thanks Rachel!
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  • FX Films pro 2 months ago
    absolutely brilliant ... perfect grading + soundtrack IMO!

    p.s. it's officially gone viral ... good for you :)
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    cheers!
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  • Sam Morrill staff 2 months ago
    Totally surreal and beautiful. You shot this at the perfect time of day.
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    Thanks!

    Feel free to put it in the staff picks! ;)
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  • Darko Krstevski 2 months ago
    Absolutely tawesome. Great work!
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  • ju_lien 2 months ago
    wowww!!!
    Godd lens!
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  • Benoist Buttin 2 months ago
    great sound and project....
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  • Kamil Kascha 2 months ago
    geeky-gadgets.com/awesome-little-shining-man-kite-video-23-12-2011/
    brought me here :)
    thank you very much for the great video. reminded me to get a dynamic perception dolly too ;)
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    the dynamic dolly is great!
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  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    thanks again for likes and views. merry xmas to everyone. just got back from the pub. veryjolly!
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  • Wray Bowling 2 months ago
    Not to be a stickler, but that's only one cube...
  • Jimandtonic plus 2 months ago
    its a trilogy! no actually the kite in this video is one of three kites which are now part of an installation at castle quay in jersey. there are two large kites( like the one in the video) and a smaller kite. we filmed the smaller kite flying, but it didnt make th final cut. i will post a link to photos of them all together soon.
  • Wray Bowling 2 months ago
    Ah-ha! That makes a lot more sense. :)
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  • jairNG 2 months ago
    beautiful looks like a 3d render haha. nice work
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  • ed dawson 2 months ago
    I kept saying - "stay up-dont crash stay up" lol
    nice work
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  • Gleon 2 months ago
    So beautiful, loved the play on shadows and depth that the triangles gave. truly surreal.

    (and btw, moco loco brought me here)
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  • Myriam Di Carlo 2 months ago
    great!!! and beautiful :D
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  • Alicia Lee Wade 2 months ago
    beautiful work
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  • Dan Gamage 2 months ago
    Totally surreal!
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  • Paula Moneta 1 month ago
    hermoso!
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  • Amonamiherve 1 month ago
    What is the name of the music please?
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  • Kecklin 1 month ago
    Magnificent flying monolith
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  • Miguel Teixeira 1 month ago
    this is great, congrats
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  • Matias Matteri 1 month ago
    no funciona muchachos
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  • George Levitikos 1 month ago
    Great !!!
    posted @ Three Cubes Colliding post.ly/4YKFu
    Happy Xmas and a Great Great New Year!!!
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  • Ahn plus 1 month ago
    really exquisite. especially love the feeling you evoked... i've posted it at facebook.com/SynapticStimuli
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  • Brennan L. 1 month ago
    Featured on Acrylo Blog: wp.me/p1ziIm-A5

    Really cool, guys. It's sweet to see 3D printing used in the real world.
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  • francisco canton 1 month ago
    i don't get it. i mean it looks nice and all. But it seems as the idea failed! Was the objective to get the cube to fly higher?
  • Jimandtonic plus 1 month ago
    It did fly, maybe not for long or that high, but that's no "fail" :)
  • francisco canton 1 month ago
    i know it did but what i was trying to say is that it looked kinda like a "making of" of the flying cube. Still, very nice grading adn shots
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  • Thomas Newton 1 month ago
    Music please?
  • Jimandtonic plus 1 month ago
    Vacuum Garden by Squarepusher
  • Thomas Newton 1 month ago
    Thanks, being a Squarepusher fan I should've known this. Maybe it's a more recent release...
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  • Michael Bendeck 1 month ago
    I like your short film, would you like to screen it at our festival?
    You can find more information at cor3fest.com
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  • Thora 1 month ago
    Pretty cool. Good music.
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  • Logan Hursh plus 1 month ago
    really awesome
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  • Audy Putra® 1 month ago
    nice
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  • DesignMadness 1 month ago
    Ι wrote about it on DesignMadness !
    designmadness.gr/?p=3140

    Also added on my vimeo channel!
    vimeo.com/channels/designmadness
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  • ross gaunt 1 month ago
    Laughing Squid
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  • Enrique Quiroga 1 month ago
    great work with those great lens
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  • ELVI 1 month ago
    props to the one who chose the musical track. the video would look totally different without that Squarepusher psyche through-out.
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  • Andrea Di Nardo plus 1 month ago
    Congrats for the art and for the cinematography! I like it very much.
    To the guys who are re-blogging it: you may want to provide additional information over this project by saying something about the original concept (conceived almost 100 years ago, could you imagine it? :D) alieze.com/fourth/images/timeline_1900s.jpg
    As the authors themselves say, their project is derived from the Bells Tetrahedral kites.
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  • Angelsign Studio 1 month ago
    This video should had been posted time reversed.
    Even more inspiring.
    Great job guys.
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  • BreadBox.it 1 month ago
    Wonderful job and a nice spacey atmosphere with the Squarepusher track!
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  • chiqui tron 1 month ago
    really fantastic!!!
  • Jimandtonic plus 1 month ago
    glad you liked it!
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  • Chris Lew 1 month ago
    Surreal!
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  • augusto zaquetti 1 month ago
    wowwwwwwwwwwwwww
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  • Opus Projects 3 weeks ago
    Love it.

    I'm interested in the Canon TS-E lens. Can you tell me which shots this was used on and what difference it made? Thanks!
  • Jimandtonic plus 3 weeks ago
    The tilt shift lens was used on a couple of the top down shoots around 0:45. to be honest the full effect of the lens isn't really used on these shots. Read up on tilt shift lenses :)
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  • Alice De Stefani 3 days ago
    Awesome! Great job guys, light is magic! To see again and again... FYI: I found it following an image posted on pinterest in this site nellyb63.tumblr.com/
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