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Hyperlapse

There's been plenty of impressive, mind blowing timelapse on Vimeo, Youtube and other video sharing websites.

This video is a bit different... because of the technique comepared to the usual timelapse.

Watch the video and you will see.

No Internet for a Year

How does that feel? I don't think most of us are up that challenge so it's best to let someone else do it and we'll see how it affects them.

Paul Miller is an online tech write for The Verge, he works with the internet in many ways.

The video documents his year without the internet and his feelings towards his own personal life and how it has affected him as a person.

I thought the outcome is an interesting insight to a person without access to the internet for a year. I would agree on the thought but I would never live my life without internet again...

Brief Job Description

Many of my friends ask me

"So what exactly does your company in Hong Kong do?"

I've decided to answer this question here so I don't have to answer it over and over and over again... Right now I've been shooting videos, for many purposes.... the one that I most frequently shoot for is Hong Kong's FashionTV.

Shot & Edited

Not my proudest edit nor shoot but... the nicer ones hasn't been uploaded yet... But that's what I'm doing now... going to shows and events to video and document for FashionTV.

Second type of video I make is for Dragon-i... a nightclub in Hong Kong.

Shot & Edited

Second time shooting nightclubs... first one was the one with Akon at Club Cubic located in Macau. you can also find this video on their Dragon-i Website

Third type of video is for our own production house... called Xin Wang. Right now what we done is we've bought two DJs Paul Oakenfold and Afrojack and I've edited a little promo video before they arrive in Hong Kong.

Edited

Surprisingly these video has been getting 20,000+ views on Youtube and s by for the most popular thing I've edited.

So these are the three names I work for mostly. Xin Wang (my employer), FashionTV and Dragon-i...

3D Printing Firearms?

People might think I'm pretty late to be amused by this technology but damn this is incredible. In this month I've came across two videos discussing 3D printing.

Printing objects with plastic according to 3D design software you will have boundless creations just within your house. Almost everything can be built and print straight off from this printer and in an instant. What's so great about it is that you can forge/design experiment items straight away and customise things to suit yourself. I think within 5-10 years when it becomes a common household hardware it will change the way we interact with products. It will become a threat to many brands. Although it seem beneficial for us, it always have its side effects and threats towards the community.

People have already use the printer to produce firearms thats just as powerful as guns purchase from stores. With new technology there are always lots of unclear laws to control the use. A great example would be the internet and music... It will always serve as a lesson to be revied on whenever a big new invention gets created.

First video talks about the future of 3D printing and it's great potential.

Second video is a documentary on 3D Printed Firearms across America.

Yarrrdbird

Stussy is breaking into the food collaboration, having doing a collab previously with Plan Check restaurant in West Los Angeles the second one was at Hong Kong and I was lucky enough to take part of it. Stussy chose Yardbird for their second food collaboration.

I was there around 12:20am and the first seatings were filled already, we wait for around 40mins before we headed in. The place has two floors, we were at the basement level where the kitchen was so we were able to see some of the preparations. The seatings were pretty jammed as they try to fit as much people as possible, which was a good thing since I prefer the pack, loud and busy environment with people chatting along, laughing and having a good time. The food was great there were highlights such as the Twice Fried Chicken, Popcorn Gizzard, Crispy Ramen Salad, Fried Chicken Fillet and Sweet Potato Gratin... a lot of highlights I know... but the food was great! The portions were definitely enough if not too much. It was a once off menu but I sure hope that they keep the ones I listed above. The staff were all friendly and trying to social with everyone.

It was def a pleasant experience and be sure to check out their regular menu some other time.

Unfortunately the photos I took were taken with my film camera so I will upload them once I get the processed. Meanwhile enjoy this inspiring video they did with OTHERS x HYPEBEAST.

33-35 Bridges Street Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

No Reservations

Hours: 6 til Midnight | Closed Sundays

Your City

I might have over posted enough videos and things  Hong Kong. But hey! I'm here so i'm surrounded by the cool things here lol.

Anyway I saw this video and not to my surprise a lot of creatives do set their feet here in Hong Kong and because it's has such a unique connection with China and the Western world. It is pretty fascinating here and things get done in such a pace that it surprises people.

Percival Fashion Film

Percival's 2012 Autumn/Winter Fashion Film is trippy.

Lots of pre-production planning with many edits that are planned to work with each other.

I also like their most of their clothes even though most of the inspiration are stolen the styles are still contemporary.

Reasons to Stay in Hong Kong: 002

The next day 3rd November 5:00am I saw another video.

Made by a small crew of passionate people in Malaysia. The other reason why I would wanted to stay in Hong Kong is because of the people. It is a fast paced culture and people react in a faster efficient way. In Australia I have encountered too many talkers, they chill more than they do. They dream and talk about ideas when they've never taken action or the task is far from practical.

After watching the video above I looked into D1 Production's other videos such as 血魚,  The Making of Canon 650D TV Commercial and their 血魚 behind the scenes. All of the crew members are dedicated in their work, full of passion and the video reflects it. It's not an ordinary YouTube quality video but one that is like a micro-film, one that is capable of winning international short film fests.

In my opinion I think there are more people more passionate making a Hong Kong film than an Australian film. Also it is easier to recuit and build a proactive, dedicated and professional team in Hong Kong than Sydney.

Reasons to stay in Hong Kong: 001

Some of you may know I've got a one way ticket to Hong Kong. My mum got the ticket for me so it wasn't by choice I made that decision but it opened a door for me. As I hopefully graduate this year I'm looking for experience, career and opportunities. I think there's opportunities for me in Hong Kong but I'm just not sure what it is yet.

In the pass 3 days I saw videos lead me to believe in staying in HK for my career. Although those things might not be talking about Hong Kong or filmmaking directly, I thought it connects with me and my situation directly. In these posts I am going to write about the three videos to make make me believe in Hong Kong Films.

On Sunday 2nd November around 5:00am I saw a documentary on expats in Korea, Seoul.

Foreigners living in Seoul for an unknown extensive time. This is episode 1 of the series. I watched all three of the released episode til 6am and fell asleep thinking. If I go back to Hong Kong to work I would be more of a foreigner than a local, it would be a great experience to connect back to my roots, restart my life, meet new creatives and film enthusiast. They said Seoul is like a melting pot and Asia is the Europe of our era.

P.S. They shot these episodes with 3 Canon 5D Mark III, incredible.

Comme il Faut

One can become successful in many ways, not doing so well now doesn't mean you cant be great later on in your life.

Alicia Muniz the founder and designer of Comme il Faut studied Psychology back in Uni and how she designs tango shoes for one of the most successful tango footwear in the world.

If you have an idea and determined then success will follow.

OYSHO Lingerie Winter Collection

A lady in her underwear feeling comfortable, relaxed, confident and sexy.

Walking in her house on a sunny day , reading a book, playing with the mattress trying out her lingerie, there's a sense of romance as she indulge playing out characters and scenarios. Patricia in Breathless? Isabelle in The Dreamers? Charlotte in Lost in Translation?

Shot beautifully in Black & White shows off the OYOSHO Winter Collection.

iPhone vs Leica

This interview is ridiculous, I mean everyone who understands photography knows the significant engineering of the Leica company.

It is not possible for an iPhone to replace a Leica even by a simple fact that it doesn't even have variable focal length, from fish eye to telephoto.

The Indiana Jones of Wildlife Protection

This shot film was created for the purpose to test out the Canon C300

Alan Rabinowitz devotes his life to conserve wild life species, here's a little insight into this great man.

GTA Inspired film

Grand Thief Auto has been a big influence during my teenage years from GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and now GTA V is coming soon too :) Heavily film inspired with numerous references such as Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Speed, Casino and many more.

Now it's GTA turn to influence the new age film makers.

Inspired by GTA, Geovorg Karensky makes a crime short of Niko Bellic.

 

Sites of Hong Kong

A few people have asked me why I would move to film in Hong Kong and not film in Sydney?

There's many reasons actually but this is one of them:

Hong Kong is a beautiful city and it's just as photogenic as NYC with iconic locations, places, structures on every corner. Fantastic neon lights during nighttime for night scene shooting, nice cloudy days for morning shoots. The location itself gives you ideas, inspirations, creativity wherever you look.

I'd also realise that in a place like Sydney you really don't seem to have the thought of crossing paths with interesting characters such as psychos, serial killers, assassins, detectives, gangsters or superpowers. The location is simply not dense enough for others to witness or meet interesting people. We would meet multi-cultural ethnic people but they would seem to have the same lifestyle as we do. Incidents does not seem to happen as often in dense populated areas such as New York, Hong Kong, India, Japan, France where the film industry are richer than Australia. It is also a reason why Australians find it hard to relate to Australian films because even ourselves have not encountered such stories displayed on cinema...

ANYWAY here's a video showing you how videogenic Hong Kong can be.

Brooks x The Royal College of Arts

If anyone is into bicycles, fixies and riding then they must've heard of the great Brooks England company. Specialised in leather seating and quality  bicycle accessories they have dominated the marktet for decades.

One of the great things they are doing is collaborating with the students in The Royal College of Arts they assign the students to come up with Brooks England future products. This is a great way for Brooks to inspire themselves with young creative minds' ideas and also help students to get practical experience as they hope their products be chosen and manufactured.

I wish more companies will collaborate with Arts institutions because I think it will benefit both the company and the students.

Here's a video of the successful process.

Visvim's Vision

Hiroki Nakamura the designer for Visvim speaks about his inspirations.

He is trying to push fashion forward with function, form and endurance. Some of you might think his garments are a big price to pay but I think to some true supporters they are not only buying a piece of clothes. It is the technology, the effort and vision of Hiroki.

This video might give you a closer understanding of Visvim and the man behind the brand.

Hurricane Sandy

It's been a two weeks since it hit NYC but we never felt the impact, or how serious it got for everyone in NYC.

Luckily there's people who were daring enough to roam the streets on their bicycle and capturing the crazy happenings of New York.

I wouldn't say this is particularly awesome video making... but it's raw, it's realistic and you can feel the effects of hurricane Sandy.

  

How Socks Manufacture?

Never knew making socks could be so complex.

The machines are weird, some things need to be man handled because of its delicacy.

As I've said before the socks game is getting more attention these days, get on it!