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Arin
This is a little update to let people know what I'm up to. In this video I mention how I've just moved out of my loft and am going on tour and then I invite people to check out the Nokia College Tour, From Here To Awesome and the DIY self distribution workshop we are doing at Boston university at the end of May. And then at the end I tease a little something going on with Four Eyed Monsters. Questions? Comments? Just post a response below...
http://mandateforheavenclothing.com Ive been thinking a lot about clothing lately. I think there is a big potential for the whole clothing experience to be re-invented so we dont have to hurt the environment and humanity so much. Instead of always using new fabric and shipping clothes made in sweat shops by little kids all over the world a very different approach can be taken. One major step in the right direction is what a friend of a friends clothing line is up to. Mandate of Heaven makes their clothes from recycled fabric. And they distribute their clothes primarily locally which cuts down on shipping and packaging pollution. Theyre also all very expressive clothes which gives the person wearing them a strong individuality and uniqueness which helps break out of the manufactured mindset of manufactured clothes. I was invited to check out their show and decided to bring my camera. Then I couldnt help myself and wanted to edit their show into a video with music by one of my favorite local bands 'Forest Fire' who Ive posted a performance by in the past. http://myspace.com/fuckforestfire Here is the complete list of lovely models: Paige Wood, Sophia Casanova, Montana Queler, Valerie Ponelli, John Lustig, Claudia Lopez, Rachel Antonoff, Sarah Moran, Noelle Lynch, Jessica Gallucci, Alexa Weir, Lisa Goodwin, Eugina Williams, Alia Shawkat, Maria Christina, Brissi, Ying Li, Sara Copeland, Carissa Ackerman. For more info about the models visit the Mandate of Heaven MySpace Profile. http://www.myspace.com/mandate_of_heaven There is also a flickr photo set from the show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/angellustnyc/sets/72157603848088184/ Technical Notes about making this video: I shot on the HVX-200 with all default settings in terms of gama and color manipulation. The recording setting was at 720 60p and the Scene setting was put to film cam rather then what I normally shoot on which is video cam. Then while shooting I took into consideration everything getting slowed down and did some more radical camera work that I otherwise wouldnt have done. I tried to run around a lot and get different angles. Then I captured the footage into FCP using Log and transfer. Because I shot on Film Cam the 60 frames per second that were recorded played back at 23.98 which is the beautiful slowmotion you see in the video. I then proceeded to slow the footage down even further to 50 percent and sometimes 25 percent. I did this by clicking the clip and then hitting apple J and then typing in the speed that I wanted it to be. Normally I avoid frame blending but in this case it gave it a nice dreamy blur that I like so I used it on almost every shot. Then I used WireTap Pro to record the forest fire song off their myspace profile. I set the software to record the computer audio at 48Khz with no compression and then brought that music into FCP. Then I downloaded some elements from my website like the earth and the pattern and dragged those from my desktop to the FCP timeline in order to have a background for my graphics. Then I color corrected by crushing the blacks, lowering the whites and boosting the mids. Also dragging the color temperature towards blue as needed for each shot. Then I used compressor to export to web and chose the iPod 640 by 480 preset and then uploaded to YouTube. Then I hopped over here and wrote the blog post in my wordpress blog and next will export the video in the Apple TV codec and then use tubemogul to post that across my various video services including blip.tv which makes this video available in iTunes and Miro in HD quality. This video is under a sharalike creative commons license so anyone can re-edit and re-post with a similar license provided they link to the designer and to myself. Question for commenters: How else do you think the clothing experience can be re-invented?
Three very short clips were taken from the above video and posted to the new From Here to Awesome Video Feed. Look for the video feed and subscribe on iTunes, Miro, YouTube, MySpace and Blip.TV and several other video sites. Thanks to TubeMogul and Mike Hedge for cross posting that video to so many sites.
Thank to taxiplasm.net for shooting this panel on the DVX-100.
Please feel free to sample and re-post any part of or all of this video. Please link to ArinCrumley.com as the original place the video posted.
Last week a film festival I co-founded called From Here to Awesome was introduced and got a lot of blogosphere attention. This is an interview that NewTeeVee conducted with Lance and I. After the interview they posted a raw .mp3 of the full conversation and wrote up a blog post on NewTeeVee.
I've you've made a film you think the world should there is a good chance you should really be a part of From Here to Awesome. Read the details on how to submit here. You can also see photos documenting the creation of this film festival in this flickr set. Please spread the word!!!! FromHereToAwesome.com
I was at The Art Party at Galapagos in December 2007 and the concepts in Brook Goldbergs art jumped out at me so I decided to record some video. Then the organizer of Party offered to introduce me to Brook and I recorded this audio clip.
People show up and get on a list and then perform a couple songs and there is tons of video and photography happening of it all. Check out The Appartment MySpace page.
To get all of the performances coming out of the Appartment go to their YouTube page.
This footage was shot in 720 24pn on the HVX-200 and color corrected in final cut studio with color correction filter lowering saturation and boosting mids and whites. I encoded the footage into the Apple TV codec using compressor and then changed the file name from a .m3v to a .mov and uploaded to Tubemogul.com where it was cross posted to my blip channel where I logged in and edited this HTML and then arincrumley.com and a few other sites got the cross post. Check my tutorial on this uploading and cross posting process.
Arin Crumley has bee responsible for many firsts. In october 2005, him in has collaborater Susan Buice became the first indie filmmakers to use video podcasting to create additional content about their feature film. In January of 2006 the first feature film to be available for theatrical screenings upon request through a web sign up form. In September of 2006, the first film to use a google map to calculate the cities with the strongest demand for the film and then use that information to convince movie theaters to book the film. In January of 2007, the first feature length film to screen in the virtual world Second Life. In June of 2007 the first entire feature film to be posted to YouTube in it's. And in August of 2007 the first feature film to be posted to MySpace.
Keep an eye on Arin Crumley for more short projects as well as game changing feature films and feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be a part of any of his projects.
