my favourite shot too!

no, i very carefully handheld'ed it, and then used final cut pro's "smoothcam filter" which recalibrates the shot pixel by pixel to remove slight shaking... you can see the image "recoil" in places...

i actually added that filter to every handheld shot - which is every shot in here - so that even smallest movements were smoothed over.

oh, and it aint too miserable! i just made it look that way.

i take that back - it is a shithole, and i'm still there 8 months later.

hehheeh, do you mean your place or London in general? I can only do london in short doses.

my place. london is not so intense as it is lonely. looking forward to moving out. need to get making films again...

its a track called "memento mori" by matmos, from their album "a chance to cut is a chance to cure", which i think is mostly synthesized from samples made in hospitals and the machines in them... spooky

i actually haven't been paying rent... shhh... thats an issue i have to deal with in the next month as the guest becomes a possible resident...

anyone got a place in london?

england's got that charm to it. post-apocalyptic orwellian gloom... but homey.

its the beginning of an 8 minute track, "memento morri" by an artist/band called "matmos"... as i said above, i think its entirely composed of hospital instrument samples.

the pulsating bass bit stuck with me over the years (kinda reminded me of the sound of the alien signal in that film "contact", which incidentally is an amazing carl sagan book and a hatchet job by robert zemeckis).

i usually played this song at some ill-advised time during parties when people had gone "over the edge"

hey, no, everything is hand-held, and in addition to my super-steady hand (thank you, ladies and gents), i added the final cut pro "smoothcam" filter to every shot... i think a lot of tripod mounts are overused, same with overly jittery handheld stuff... this way, the shots feel a lot more like one's own eyes, which have tiny movements called saccades (if the human eye stopped moving, the image on the retina would disappear and you would go blind), so this feels pretty in line with that belief...

pretencious? maybe the explanation, but im satisfied :)

yeah! again, i like docu-realism, there's plenty magnificent with the real world!

Same. BTW there was something really attractive to me about the shot over the sink.

someone above noted that the white in the sink blended in at places with the background of the vimeo page - i had a look, its true!

but the gun metal finish after the filtering on the taps gets me all warm n fuzzy inside. and the asymmetry of the chain in an otherwise balanced shot. oops, im getting too filmschoolspeak on yo' asses.

mathematical imaging algorithms = spooky organic shots :)

camera was all cinemamode 25fps on the hv20 in colour... "gradient colour" filter was used in final cut rather than desaturation, allowing for some really crisp beautiful contrast and tonalities. different for every shot tho, the uniform copy-paste method wasn't working for different lighting.

thanks dude!

:) and you a great one for misty mornings!

...which is why i'm wary of dialogue. but moving slowly from montage to narrative.

thanks :)

dude, thanks a bunch, i really loved the look of your stuff. how can i watch "i, boy" ? and how do you make colour look so damn fine?

thanks jimbo! i like to think a shot's wasted if it doesn't work as a photograph. you're not actually a shepherd-retriever mutt are you? :p

thanks godino! your VJ stuff and performance art vids are really cool!

feel free to download this and put it in a VJ thing (with a little "carrozo" logo of course :P)

hehe, thanks punk, that was a shitty roll too (pun not intended; i hate "chalky" loo roll)

this.
is.
england.

are they big and bulky? hard to achieve good things sometimes because equipment stands out so much as being pro to observers, or ur less likely to just swing it all about taking risks because of the effort involved of holding it.

i could be wrong!

True, they can be intimidating cameras to many people, especially in public places.

thanks marcus!!

this was before i got magic bullet.

gradient filter in final cut is the key - don't desaturate.

;)

thanks milad :)

check out the other videos too and tell me what you think!