Tag Archives: videos

TV Commercial Shot with iPhone5

Things Exploding Filmed at 2500 Frames Per Second

This video is a treat and a bit of a guilty pleasure. It’s the trailer for the new season of the Danish television show Dumt & Farligt, which translates as “Stupid & Dangerous” in English. In the clip, a variety of mundane and unusual objects, large and small, are smashed, exploded, set ablaze crashed or otherwise destroyed. Each destructive event is shot by a camera at 2500 frames-per-second and played in slow motion, allowing the viewer to see immense detail and movement that’s usually too fast or small for the naked eye to grasp.

“Play Dead; Real Time” … Or That Massive Elephant Video Installation at MoMA

“Play Dead; Real Time” by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon is a massive video installation currently at MoMA in New York. The artwork is made of two huge projection screens and a small TV monitor that show video (see below at bottom of post) of a single circus elephant that had been transported to the Gagosian gallery in New York City. The trained pachyderm was filmed at the gallery obeying a series of commands. The footage was made from multiple cameras as tracking shots. The work is fascinating, mesmerizing, and sublime if not a wee bit unsettling.

Artist JR’s TED Talk Video

This video of a TED Talk by the French artist “JR” is from the annual TED Conference a couple of years ago (March 2011), but it’s really worth seeing if you haven’t already, especially if you’ve seen his work around the world or are a fan.

Epic 1980′s Corporate Holiday Video

Here’s a hilarious and totally awesome corporate holiday video produced in 1982 by global ad agency Ogilvy & Mather. It’s soooooooo eighties!!! (Or Williamsburg circa 2013, take your pick.)