“How many ‘likes’ will satisfy your need of consolation?”

That is one of the core questions of Peer-to-Peer. The video above includes images of the first presentation of our performance piece, that took place June 4th. Next presentation will be June 26th at Maus Hábitos, so pay us a visit if you’re in Porto that weekend!

An HD slow-motion clip of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch. Nice.

Toby*spark’s Live Cinema Documentary. An amazing intro to cinema as live performance (way past VJing). (via CDM)

360 degree video for next-to-nothing

Something to try.

Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh. This video shows what really matters in CG: even though the long shots may not be the very best architectural renderings I’ve seen (the textures look rather flat sometimes), the lighting, the camera moves and the small details (specks of dust, etc) make for one really engaging piece.

All done by a single person using a desktop computer - this is what William Gibson meant when he coined the expression “Garage Kubrick”.

Noupe: 50 After Effects Tutorials

Hm. I was never much of a tutorial person (I rather just go and recklessly do whatever I want to do), but some of these will probably provide me with the kind of AE training I’ll need soon.

A two-minute minidocumentary about the Big Bang. Personally, it’s thrilling to see the short-form science doc evolve. But seriously: magenta?

Video Embedding Comparison Site

Despite the generic name and 1990s-like design this website, this survey of online video hosts is quite useful, as you can compare the embed quality and performance of different sites in a single page. I’ve been a Vimeo user for the last two years, but some things prevented from taking the plunge into a paid account (mostly the buggy player and the sleazy way the introduction of paid accounts meant the removal of features from the free ones). I also have YouTube for a few things, but again I think its player will be an iconic piece of ugly design of the noughts, and the 10 minute limit is a bore. So I wonder about Exposure Room (ugly site though) and OpenFilm…

The Golden Hour Calculator

Pretty useful. Add a moon and tide calculator and a weather forecast, and it’d be the perfect photographer/filmmaker’s almanac. If on my (not fancy) cellphone.

One Hundred Years of Visual Effects.