Exploration
Foursquare Fourcam
ROLE: Concept + Director + Editor
DESC.: Event Video
April 16th is the official anniversary for the mobile app Foursquare. More than 15 cities celebrated the mobile location based “check-in” app by throwing their own “Foursquare Day” events to celebrate local business.
This year’s 2nd annual Foursquare Day in Toronto was a great success with sponsors donating everything from autographed Tim Burton books (TIFF) to phone cases for every patron (iSkin). Even our (usually) pathetic mayor (Rob Ford) acknowledged the date with a signed letter from his office.
I documented this event with a home-made camera system that appropriately reflected the client and medium that Foursquare users embrace: the smartphone.
Rationale: 4 Squares, Mobile technology, 4 Camera phones. (enough said, no?)
Making Of:
Final Edit:
Thanks to:
Rob Scarborough, Jon-Erik Lappano, Karly Gaffney, and all the organizers & sponsors for the event.
Music:
Public Enemy – Harder Than You Think (instrumental)
Ratatat - Drugs
3D Line Test
In preparation for an upcoming project I created this rough swooping line test to visualize Cinema 4D’s Sweep Nurb and Sketch & Toon features.
Cinema 4D “EleCity”
A quick animation test for a project using Cinema 4D’s “Global Illumination” settings.
Typography: Extrude Exploration
Messing around with extruded type in Cinema 4D after seeing a post from GSG.
Wolf Reserve
It always feels good getting out of the city and into the woods. This past weekend i got the opportunity to see a pack of wolves that live on a reserve in northern Ontario.
Watch the tail of the wolf that is pressured by the Alpha (black)…he’s the Omega in the pack. Although much larger than the Alpha wolf, he unfortunately is very likely to be killed by the rest of the pack when they get fed up with him.
Motion Stabilized in After Effects
Colored in Apple Color
Music by American Dollar
Camera Panasonic LX3
Paper Experiment
I tend to get a little obsessed about the projects I’m working on and begin to buy and position myself around any and all objects that loosely relate to it. I enjoy the idea of ‘living the project’ and feel good allowing the creative part of my work flow into the daily purchases and decisions.
My latest purchase of a crumpled paper trash can ties in with the copius amounts of crumpled newsprint i’ve been photographing for an audio driven stop motion experiment.
Another 2 weeks of exploring animation possibilities and i should be done…JUST in time for my trip to Cuba (hence the music in the vids). Here’s a peek: