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Studio304 Still Motion Project

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Well the time is finally here!  I have been able to pop another chapter in moving pictures.  Ill post the link to the super quality 720p file soon enough but for now just enjoy the vimeo!

Studio304 Still Motion – 5D mark 2 from Dj Frost on Vimeo.

Studio304 and it’s crew are featured in this short picture.  If your in the Vancouver area contact us at http://www.studio304.ca for more information on rates and availability.

Big thanks to Adam and Kev Photography for the raw conversions.

THE IDEA:

We had a regular shmegular studio meeting and decided to take a portrait of all the studio members.  Well, this turned into more than a portrait as you can see.

The camera was actually triggered by an iPhone passed around the group.  By tapping the shutter over wi-fi.

In the first scenes we are all standing around with the light setup from that days portrait shoot, then in the second scene, we each setup our own light.  Adam Schelle [softbox camera left], Kevin Holloway [umbrella] Adam Blasberg [beauty dish center pillar] Justin Frost [camera right].

A true colab, everyone here has a photographic background and what a great time we had at this meeting!

PRODUCTION NOTES:

Studio Courtesy:
Studio304 Vancouver

Director:
Justin Frost

Still Photography:
Adam and Kev Photography

Motion Graphics / VFX / Editing:
REALSTOCK Productions

Sound Design:
Dj Frost

SOFTWARE:
Lightroom
Bridge
Automator
Logic Pro
After Effects
Adobe Media Encoder
Illustrator
iPhone app to control mouse on mac
Canon EOS Utility [for the mouse to trigger the 5d]

I have to shout out Robert Rodriguez as he has been a huge inspiration in my recent filmmaking journey.
If you like this version PLEASE visit one of the following sites to download the proper 720p HD file.  The quality is amazing on this PHOTO-JPEG encoded version and will be available here for download in the next post..

Also, please play this on decent speakers[:

Cheers!

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Songbird is amazing!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Have you ever wanted something that would find music on a web page and just show you the damn links with a big shiny DOWNLOAD button beside each track?

Yep, me too….

Guess what!  Its Here!  

Enter Songbird.  

 

This little piece of software will allow you to browse your favorite blogs  [maybe find some on Hype Machine or Skreemr? hint.. hint] and download any file that is linked on the page.  

In essence, if there is a link that goes to an .mp3 file [or any media for that matter] it will show up in the “Media Browser” in an Itunes like display at the bottom of Songbird.

Another amazing aspect to this piece of software is that the downloads are blazingly fast, as they come from independent servers for the most part.  Your downloads will be especially fast if you find the self hosted wordpress blogs…

Songbird is in its Alpha release, so its not totally bug free.. BUT its so worth getting right now that you should do it at all costs.  

The browser in Songbird uses Mozilla Firefox [Gecko rendering engine] and once you get used to the menu and browser bars you will be poppin new tabs as fast as you can in FireFox.  

But wait.. It even has an Itunes Import function and Ipod support!  This could be the most integrated and dynamic challenge that Apple and the Major record labels have ever seen…

They even created an amazing API for developers and designers, so if you want to create your own branded skin [they call them "feathers"] then you can hop to it with all the required documentation.

Enough is enough.. go and get Songbird RIGHT NOW, here’s the link homies!!  And to the developers.. Your going to be rich great work!! 

http://getsongbird.com/

PEACE!

Frost

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Pioneers of the video scratch mix..

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Ok so it always amazes me how people have not heard of Mike Relm.   It amazes me so much that I have to write a post about him and another cat  [from Vancouver] CB Shaw.   Both of these dudes are “Pre-Video-SL” [Video SL is the video version of Serato Scratch Live] and totally kill it.  Take a moment and check out these videos.

The styles vary with Mike Relm being much more scratch oriented and CB Shaw being more of a fluid mix… Which do you prefer?

Much respect to these guys as encoding and finding the videos to make these sets is no quick task!

peace, 

frost

CB SHAW – VIDEO MIX MASHUP 

 
MIKE RELM – VIDEO TURNTABLEIZM 

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Young Gun! Future rockstar on the rise. Watch out now!!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Watch out for Brendan DiStefano, he’ll be touring the world with his music soon enough.. It blows my mind how the new generation can produce what would have taken a team of adults just 10 years ago.  

Did I mention that he’s also my brother?

Brendan uses some killer software from toontrack.com to produce real “humanized” sounding drums.  We started chatting about producing the beats for his guitar tracks.  He quickly took it to the next level by finding a more analogue sounding drum program.  I think previous to the toontrack software he was using the FLstudio [fruityloops for you old schoolers].

A screenshot from an amazing hardware emulator. If you call drums hardware

 

I personally have a thing for Reason.. Mainly because it is more of a “hardware emulator” type program that has constantly impressed me for the last 6 years.

Brendan is able to record, publish, produce and promote his work and he does.  Big props to my bro for focusing on an amazing art form!  It makes me a happy dude to see him producing creative things… There are so many distractions these days for the youngans, its an amazing thing to be able to focus!

Keep it up Bro!!

Peace, 

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