http://surfacedetail.com Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:58:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://surfacedetail.com/2008/11/sydney-storms/ I'll come to Knowing shortly, but first, talk about cutting it close. Before working at Animal I had heard from good sources that Baz has a reputation for working on a film up until the last moment, but this seems to me to be pushing it to the extreme. Having ... http://surfacedetail.com/2008/11/knowing/ http://surfacedetail.com/2008/11/this-is-our-moment/ Tomorrow's the day, ladies and gentlemen. A day where America can start to rebuild its credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world that it has lost over the past 8 years. Poster design by ISO50. I followed the 2004 elections quite closely and was deeply dissappointed when it went ... http://surfacedetail.com/2008/11/hope/ It seems like an age ago I did this interview for UniSA news. So much happened on Australia in the last few weeks, I had forgotten about it. It's now up online, or - for all UniSA graduates - in your mailbox. http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/interview-2/ Regular visitors may have noticed that the site has finally been updated to a unified design. Trimmed down, leaner and meaner. The portfolio has also been trimmed down and while I desperately want to put up some of my work from Australia, I can't just yet. I've also been testing the ... http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/updates-3/ I wish every holiday video was like this. It's just beautiful, gentle and very nicely done. Damn I wish my SLR did video. A walk in the mountain with Julie by Sébastien Abes on Vimeo. http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/a-walk-in-the-mountains/ Keith Loutit has an awesome series of shorts up on Vimeo that utilise the 'tilt-shift lens' effect where the depth of field of an image is dramatically narrowed and gives the illusion of everything being miniature. I first saw this technique in Thom Yorke's Harrowdown Hill video clip and was ... http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/tilt-shift-video/ The second trailer for Australia is up online, but strangely enough, not on the official site nor the Apple trailers site. Interestingly, one of the shots I worked on is in there. Exciting stuff! http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/australia-trailer/ Pictures from the live show by Ophelia of the Spirits the other night at The Basement in Sydney. http://surfacedetail.com/2008/10/ophelia-live-photos/