GERIK

 

Experiment. Fail. Repeat: Tales + Advice from MoGraph Heroes

Grab this free pdf book from School of Motion.

 

GOOD READS

A willingness to be bad

Three Female Conflict Zone Photographers Discuss the Challenges of Front Line Work – 99U

 

Jon M. Chu Shot This Short Film Entirely on an iPhone XS Max | WIRED

Document, Don’t create: Creating Content that Builds Your Personal Brand

Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity

GoPro HERO7 Announced with HyperSmooth Stabilization – Newsshooter

 

FROM THE VIDEO FEED

 

 

GOOD QUOTE

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
~Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852)

 

Welcome to The Good Stuff video edition. This week I’m posting some videos I’ve been digging. Some of it’s cool. Some of it is crazy. And one of them is mine.

 

Covers – A series of 55 animated vintage book graphics
How would these great book covers from the past look like when set in motion? Here we go…

 

Wearing five GoPro’s I attempt to visit, in five days, every one of Trip Advisor’s “Top 315 Attractions in Miami’.

My Trip to Miami is a documentary of a fantasy.

 

 

 

25 years ago today — October 30th, 1992 — the New York City subway installed its first automated turnstiles.

Ever since, New Yorkers have struggled to master the Metrocard.

In this short documentary, one anonymous man has an exceptionally tough time with his card.

We’ve all faced intractable machines, and so we admire his persistence.

 

I’ve no idea what this video is. It crawled out from some dark corner of my computer

after evolving from the virtual maggots that feast on rotting film footage.

 

Face Mask by Jake Fried 2018.

Experimental animation with video collage.

Sound design by the artist. More at inkwood.net

 

Finally, here’s something I’ve recently posted. A lot of the videos I usually do are short attention grabbing videos. But I love watching slower documentary films. Things that take time to develope. So I started rough cutting some footage together that I took in 2014 as an editing exercise.

 

Welcome to the 16th week of The Good Stuff. A weekly post of stuff I like and I hope you like too.

 

 

GOOD STUFF TO READ

Elizabeth Cox: The surprising link between stress and memory | TED Talk

Director Peter Markle Shoots Micro-Budget Indie Film in 25 Days | VashiVisuals

Illustrator Scott Garrett on trying new things, breaking out of ruts and loving creative work again | Creative Boom

“Sometimes it’s important just to feel like you are moving forward”

 

A Renaissance for Documentaries – WSJ

 

Our favorite photo editing apps for iOS – The Sweet Setup

 

FEED YOUR EYEBALLS

Beer by Charles Bukowski on Vimeo (Mature)

 

 

The More Things Change on Vimeo

YOUTUBE LIST

I’m going to dump a list of people on youtube that help me out with creating stuff because they create great tutorials and content. In no particular order.

Jake In Motion – YouTube

Mt. Mograph – YouTube

ECAbrams – YouTube

Workbench – YouTube

ukramedia – YouTube

School of Motion – YouTube

Story Greenlight – YouTube

 

THIS JUST IN

My hand has been hurting from the friction when I use my Wacom Tablet, which is all the time both at home and at work. So I picked up one of these funny looking gloves on Amazon. Just getting started using it. I’m actually typing this sentence with the glove on to see how it feels. So far so good.

 

BOOKMARKABLE READS

5 ways to warm up your brain – theuxblog.com

Questlove on the benefits of collaboration | The Official Slack Blog

15 Tiny Creative Projects You Can Start Today | Make a Mess: Everyday Creativity

IF YOU ARE CURIOUS

Here’s a recent project I just finished.

 

WHERE TO FIND GOOD SOUND EFFECTS?

That was a question I was asking myself a lot when I was finishing up the project I just mentioned. Here’s a quick list of places I used and also had on my radar to find SFX. Where do you source your sound effects? I’d love to hear.

Royalty-Free Sound Effects – Audioblocks

Sound Effects ~ Royalty Free Sound FX Library | Pond5

Boombox — Mt. Mograph

Motion Sound | Great motion needs great sound

Epidemic Sound | SFX

Essential Sound Effects for Motion Design – Mister Horse

Adobe Audition Sound Effects
(What’s amazing is this one is a really vast collection, and it’s free!)

GOOD QUOTE

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
– Bob Dylan