St Wilfrid's Catholic School in Crawley have produced an end-of-year video featuring their headmaster — a faithful shot-by-shot remake of Spike Jonze's video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice.
I was most impressed by the side-by-side comparison with the orginal:
As someone said on MeFi, such wholesome fun!
Impressive Kashaka playing by Yowie.
More on their YouTube channel and instruction available on Yowie's Patreon.
Wikipedia has info on this West african percussion instrument.
Terrific short film to promote the new Tutu Academy on the anniversary of the Hong Kong Ballet's 45th Anniversary.
You can watch the 3-minute film here:
Paul Trillo made a video for Washed Out's "The Hardest Part" using Open AI's Sora. This is truly incredible, world-changing technology.
When you watch this, consider the amount of time, people, tech, special effects, logistics, sets, locations, and planning that something like this would take in the real world. Absolutely outside the scope and budget of an indie band, but done with AI for about $700. Regardless of what you think about the very idea of AI, that this can even be done is almost unfathomable.
Here's a small portion of the prompts Trillo used to create this:
...continuous shot moving forward zooming through time, with a view of 1980s highschool hall corridor with checkered tiled floor, buzzing with students walking around. the scene is captured from a low angle front perspective, showing a door at the end of the corridor getting bigger and closer. the scene is blurred, indicating a high speed movement. the shot is moody and cinematic, with a slight vignette and a warm, vintage tone. the shot is captured on 35mm film, fuji film stock from the 90s with an anamorphic 24mm lens...
A more fleshed out analysis of what's involved is available on FXGuide. Info on Open AI's Sora is here.
Ripple is a short film by Connor Griffith. "It's a flurry of frame-by-frame images, mostly from Google Earth and Wikipedia, that depict the many developed and undeveloped surfaces on the planet." — the Atlantic
A while ago, I received a text from my friend, Nirvan Mullick, asking if I was going to be in LA soon as he was working on a film project he thought I might want to join in. "Sort of a flash mob situation." Unfortunately, I was in going to be in Toronto on the event date so wasn't able to participate.
Lo-and-behold, the film is now finished and it's lovely:
Update for A Tiny Bell :
You probably had already seen that video as it went crazy viral, inspired a movement, and resulted in this sequel:
What's Nirvan up to now? His latest project is What a Trip: The Rick Doblin Story. You can watch the trailer below and donate to the film on its GoFundMe. More films and info at Nirvan.com.
