Naomi Pelletier's blog

Sorry I'm Late

Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

 This little stop animation by Tomas Mankovsky kinda feels like my life at the moment, running from one thing to the next. Admittedly there is less hot air ballooning in my life than I would like but the general feeling certainly mimic's the frenetic pace of the old woking mum scenario that I've got going on at the moment. You can check out the making of this film here.

 

I love an outdoor cinema at the best of times but a floating cinema has tipped me over the edge and it is all I can do to not abandon my family and fly to Thailand immediately! It's just too great. Ole Scheeren's cinema was originally designed for for the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Film Festival. It's floating in Nai Pi Lae Lagoon near Kudu Island.

I couldn't think of a better night out, except maybe some of Ole Scheeren previous projects. Such as, the Marfa Drive-In, which was a drive-in cinema in the desert of Texas. Being whisked away on a speed boat and arriving on a glowing platform, has many layers a magic.

It reminds me of my travels in Thailand and makes me homesick for my time living in Bangkok. The first time I travelled to Thailand in my early 20's, I stayed in a little hut on the island of  Koh Lanta at a place called 'The Sanctuary'. It had an honor system and when you arrived you got a little book with your name and room number on it. Anything you helped yourself to at the bar, you wrote in your book and at the end of your stay you payed your balance. I spent a lot of time laying in hammocks and drinking cold beer on low tables and woven mats. One night seemingly out of the blue, some of the guests brought out instruments and started playing. It was one of those perfect moments. The weather was soft, the world was quiet and the sounds of strings were slipping over my youthful soul. Something was said about them being from the Berlin Orchestra. I wonder about these little stories that slip back into my mind. I think about travelling back to these places but I don't want to spoil what is a perfect memory.

I think we need to keep an eye out for Ole Scheeren's  next project and create another little story to tuck in the memory box.

Toast. Autumn 2012. A film preview.

 

When watching this clip there are moments of suppressed laughter, due to the extremely seriousness of beautiful models in exotic lands. However, I can't help ultimately being sucked in by how beautiful the cinematography is in these short advertising films for the UK clothing label Toast. Looking at the image of the house on the mountain, I can barely contain my extreme nostalgia for places I've never been.

 

Tourism Australia actually makes me want to travel in Australia

The new Ad campaign for Australian tourism launched in June this year, shows little comprasion to the Lara Bingle campaign of 2010. It is possibly a little pretensious and showcases some of Australia's most expensive destinations however you can't help being swept up a little in the grandeuar of the scenery. The melodic track accompanying the ad certainly helps to inspire a sense of national pride and again is a sucessful element to their marketing campaign. The song was composed by a singer/songwriter and viola instrumentalist, Dewayne Everettsmith and Jasmine Beams as they travelled Australia. Actually several musical duo's, who seemingly didn't know each other before the campaign, were sponsered to travel and write music in this way and this piece, 'It's Like Love', was choosen. You can watch their stories in little documentary style pieces on the website. You can review their marketing strategy here.

Here is the making of their little travel promo;

 

Ink check, water check, super cool visual check!

 

Sometimes the simple things in life are the best!

 

Sheep Herding Sheep Art - CollegeHumor Video

 

As the name suggests this really is extreme sheep herding. Yeah I'm no sheep herding expert but this looks pretty impressive. These guys clearly have a lot of time on their hands and patience. We have a lovely border colllie named Lani, perhaps we could get something like this happening with the chooks in the backyard. Anyway, just somthing a bit funny for a Tuesday morning.

Canadian Paralympic Committee: Running (Unstoppable)

via www.youtube.com

A powerful ad for the Canadian Paralympic Comimitte and a great example of the 'long take'. I really love a good long take. This ad goes for a minute and is beautifully crafted to allow the viewer to experience the fluidity of the long take or one shot. Arguably one of the greatest examples of this type of shot is the film 'Russian Ark'. The film runs for 95 minutes and is one shot. I saw it years ago at a cinema in Paddington and I remember feeling light and floaty after seeing it. It was shot in a musuem in St Petersburg and the mise-en-scene is rich and lavish. The steady cam operator must have been some kind of olympian, as although the film was shot in three takes, two were in the first 20 minutes. Thats alot of time wandering in the Tsars realm. Oh now that I'm started where do I stop, there are so many great long takes. A very purposeful long take is Orson Welles a 'Touch of evil'. The shot starts with a bomb being placed in the trunk of a car. Which we follow through most of the shot, great tension. I'll stop now.

Build your own kamra-e-faoree.

The last two box photographers....

Mikey Please.