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I had a grand idea about shooting a bunch of footage while on our honeymoon and putting together this awesome film and telling a story about our time in paradise as a married couple. Instead, we laid around, ate and drank all day. However, I did manage to get SOME footage though and I finally got around to slapping it all together.

I took this as a chance to mess around with color correction and came up with some pretty fun shots. So the video is pretty pointless with no story to tell, but rather a collage of the things we did while in Hawaii: Eat, Surf, Shave Ice (Anyone know why it’s not called ‘ShavED’ Ice in Hawaii?), Lounge, Cruise, Drink, Hold Hands! Siiiick!

I also added a photo of us in the end to prove that I was present during this honeymoon as well.

Song: Jack Johnson – Moonshine from “Thicker Than Water” soundtrack

One of the best time lapse videos I’ve seen. Amazing!

As seen in his video description on vimeo, “A large sandstorm hit the Sahara Desert on the 9th April (bit.ly/​g3tsDW) and at approx 3am in the night the sandstorm hit me, making it nearly impossible to see the sky with my own eyes.

Interestingly enough my camera was set for a 5 hour sequence of the milky way during this time and I was sure my whole scene was ruined. To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. ”

This really makes me miss New York City…

Sometimes I see an idea like this that is so simple/brilliant that I get depressed that I didn’t think of it.

Here’s 30 seconds of Chrissy, Jody and me decorating my parents’ Christmas tree. I’ve been wanting to try making a time lapse video and this is my first shot at it. This is a huge ball of corny, but I’m a big sucker for Christmas and Christmas decorations!

This one is kinda old and I meant to post it for a while now but maintaining a blog is harder than you would expect. It’s especially difficult when you and your fiancée are the only two that read your blog and you talk to each other every day and constantly bug her with your random links you find that would otherwise go on the blog.


Anyways, here’s a video/commercial for Dominos about how pizza commercials are shot. The professional hand model is my favorite, though I was disappointed to see that it wasn’t David Duchovny from Zoolander

Youtube + Guggenheim partner up to give artists the opportunity to have their video shown in the Guggenheim. This made me wonder what REALLY qualifies as art sometimes. In at least one of the videos I saw, getting into the Gugenheim just meant being able to afford a high speed video camera to film a champagne bottle popping open and breaking an egg.


Here are the highlights from the short list:





My favorite:


8-BIT TRIP



To view them individually and in full, click here.

Inception was my favorite movie this year and easily in my top 5 of all time. Definitely the best movie I’ve seen in a while. The cinematography, the action, the special effects and especially the story line. Another thing that I loved though was the score and the sound design. Often overlooked in movies is the sound design. It plays such a huge role in making a movie believable. Below is a video documentary on the sound design in Inception:

“Inception” Sound for Film Profile from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

For another fun Inception treat, Read the rest of this entry »

About a year ago one of my good buddies (and groomsman!) asked me for help creating a video application to something called “The Best Job in The World”. The idea was to make a video that told them why they should hire you for “The Best Job in The World”. In short, it was for a position in Australia at the Great Barrier Reef being an “island caretaker” and blog about your experiences. Pretty sweet, I’d say. Back in college I messed around with filming, editing and “directing” (big quotes there) videos we had put together so Kyle thought I’d be a good resource to come up with some concepts.


I originally wanted to do one continuous shot with Kyle walking through our buddy’s house and giving his talking points but that became too difficult to pull off in the amount of time we had. Having watched many of the videos that were already posted by other contestants, I noticed one common theme: They all said the same things backed with the same facts that came from wikipedia in an attempt to display their knowledge of the island. That said, the only way we’d even get noticed is to do something completely opposite, which was to not have any dialog from Kyle and somehow hit home with the fact that Kyle is someone different. So, Kyle called up a bunch of our friends and conned them with beer and pizza to be a part of the video. The idea was that Kyle is just this cool/chill guy that a lot of people liked being around and the video would show him just strolling through a buddy’s house. All the while, not immediately obvious to him, his destiny would be revealed with references to Australia popping up around him. The hope was to show people Kyle is an interesting person people would want to follow.


In the end, it just turned into a video of a bunch of doods hanging out to a cool Amon Tobin song with an epic fight between our friend Derek and an inflatable alligator all in gratuitous slow motion. In hindsight, the beating up of an alligator probably was a poor Australian reference, not to mention un-PETA friendly… Oh well. Oh yeah, and we couldn’t get it submitted in time… Oops.


For the sake of sweet sweet slowmo, I asked for the help of my friend Dave who owns a couple Red Ones so he helped film, edit and color correct it.

Just came across this Adobe Photoshop CS5 sneak peek of their new “Content-Aware Fill” tool and holy crap it is amazing! This would make my workflow at work so much faster in a lot of cases. Inevitably, there is always at least a burger I have to remove from a grill if we want to use the picture. Granted, that’s an easy example, but I can just think of so many cases where this would make a process so much easier both at work and in my own projects.


Awesome!