The Best Video Compilation Of 2011

A great compilation of clips from 2011! Enjoy!

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Life In A Day (Full length video of movie)

Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.

Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.

Just Jack - The Day I Died

Just Jack - The Day I Died

This is the official video for 'The Day I Died' by Just Jack. The video presents an moral lesson for the viewers: learn to appreciating the small details of life before it is too late. The video was directed by Ben & Joe Dempsey and stars Northern Irish actor James Nesbitt, as a man waking up to the "best day of his life" only to discover at the end that he has already been killed by a taxi and has been reliving that day.

What is One Day on Earth?

On October 10, 2010 (10.10.10), across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the largest participatory media event in history.

The PEN Story

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)

Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of "A wolf loves pork", Mr Taijin Takeuchi.

While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing "a journey through time" based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Takeuchi's brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didnt mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement.

However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.

WORDS

The folks over at Everynone just released a new addition to their series of shorts in collaboration with NPR & WNYC’s Radiolab – an evocative interpretation of communication which explores the role that language plays in our perception and understanding of the world: WORDS.

As a “bonus video” to reflect Radiolab’s recent subject matter of the same title, Everynone composed an extremely heartfelt visual array…a menagerie of everyday snapshots reflecting the human condition, presented symbiotically through masterful editing and an empathetic score. Each image runs beautifully into one another creating a warm lyricism that not only pays tribute to the minutia of our daily lives, but weaves together a story that represents our society as a whole, tangential only through our assigned definitions of each part. (More...)

Via: Motionographer.

Danny & Annie

Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, came to StoryCorps to recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen.

Credits:

Directed by: The Rauch Brothers

Animator: Tim Rauch

Background Layout: Jim Smith

Background Painting: Bill Wray

Audio Producers: Sarah Kramer & Michael Garofalo

Music: Frederik

Label: The Kora Records

Publisher: House of Hassle

More: StoryCorps.

Buildings & Vampires

This is a petit tribute from a group of friends to the film ´Were the wild things are´

Directed by: Sebastian Baptista & Nico Casavecchia
Cinematography: Eloi Moli
Prop mASTER: Lula Gomez
Prop Assistant: Daniela Uribe
Compo Artist: Diego Felix
Thanx to: Ezequiel Cruz

I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz

On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor's pop song - 'I Will Survive' at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.

This clip was first edited with the help of my friend Pisithpong Siraphisit who runs Compeung Art Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a celebration of life.

Despite the systematic brutality and cruelty endured, we have still survived.

Television Is A Drug

The inspiration of this video comes from Todd Alcott's poem, Television.

credits:http://vimeo.com/user791798

Time and Again

This is the story of a man’s daily life and how it is boring and quite repetitive.

jackkhouri.com

The Writer Who Couldn't Read

Imagine you wake up one morning and can't read. Your eyes work, but the letters on the page have turned into squiggles. They make no sense. Now meet Howard Engel, a writer of detective stories, who has this condition, but amazingly, has found a way to trick his brain to almost read again.

'Babies' Trailer - Official Movie (2010) HD

'Babies' Trailer. Release: Apr 16, 2010. Simultaneously follows four babies around the world -- from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco.

Release Date: Apr 16, 2010 Limited
Genre: Foreign, Documentary
Director: Thomas Balmes
Disributors: Focus Features

Baby In The Sky

A baby dreams of the wonders of life to come when born HIV free.

This is You

A piece that tells people about a great place to work, and reminds Herman Miller employees they've already found one.

Animation: Karin Fong with Imaginary Forces
Music/Mix: Comma/Particle in Chicago

Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, is an American manufacturer of office furniture and equipment. In 2008 they were named 'Most Admired' company in the world as well as one of the 100 best companies to work for.

This is a video infographic they did for recruitment. It's a piece that tells people about a great place to work, and reminds Herman Miller employees they've already found one.

John Lewis advert Billy Joel's She's Always a Woman

The genius starts in the first three seconds. A woman picks up a baby and when she puts it down – surprise! – it's a toddler. The child climbs through the tunnel and – woah! – she's at school and looking up in awe at the teacher with the sun shining on her desk. Then suddenly it's her sixth birthday and she's blowing out the candles … on her 18th birthday cake.

But what's this? She's married? No, she's pregnant! Hang on, she's a grandmother! And so on life rolls, painfully, beautifully, unstoppably: marriage, babies, work, grandparenting, sunny retirement years. This should be the most nauseating advert in the history of television – instead John Lewis's agency Adam & Eve has created a masterclass in emotional manipulation in 91 seconds. Man or woman, if this advert does not make you weep, then please check your pulse.

It's the visual illustration of the song that does it. The understated vocal comes from Fyfe Dangerfield of The Guillemots, a re-recording of Billy Joel's She's Always a Woman. As he sings, "She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me," we see the girl as an adult for the first time. For "She is frequently kind and she's suddenly cruel…" we see her at her laptop shouting at her family to shut up; she's trying to work. "She can't be convicted, she's earned her degree…" she cheekily steals the cherry on top of her granddaughter's cupcake. She's not perfect, this woman. She's real.

This has to be the most believable example in advertising of someone ageing 70 years over the course of a minute and half. It has every appearance of verisimilitude: you truly believe this woman exists and has been filmed at all these various stages of her life. (It is also brilliantly under-acted. The casting must have taken months.)

Of course, pick it apart and there's a weirdness. If the woman was 70 now, the sixth birthday party depicted in the opening seconds would have been taking place in the 1940s. It's clearly present day. Likewise at the wedding everyone would have been wearing flares and kaftans. Instead they are all sporting items no doubt currently available in the 2010 John Lewis collection.

No matter. This ad fools you into thinking you're watching one woman's life, whilst realising that all these women exist simultaneously right now. Well done, John Lewis, £6m well spent. I've watched it 20 times and have cried every time. Marks & Spencer must be fuming.

What they say: Never knowingly undersold on price, quality and service

What it means: Life is an emotional business and it passes in a flash. Buy reliable, quality stuff as you pass through it.

John Lewis is rolling out £6m advertising campaign ever to drive its never knowingly undersold proposition.

The ad campaign, which the retailer claims is its biggest ever, will break on Friday (23 April) the in the ad break during Coronation Street on ITV.

It has been created by Adam & Eve.

John Lewis asserts Never knowingly undersold position

John Lewis John Lewis is rolling out £6m advertising campaign ever to drive its never knowingly undersold proposition.

The ad campaign, which the retailer claims is its biggest ever, will break on Friday (23 April) the in the ad break during Coronation Street on ITV.

It has been created by Adam & Eve.

It includes a series of ads that show a woman progressing through the key stages of her life from giving birth to becoming a grandmother, and how the John Lewis brand is a part at every stage.

The 10, 60 and 90-second TV spots will air across terrestrial and satellite TV channels for six weeks.

They will feature a re-recorded version of Billy Joel's "She's Always a Woman", sung by the Guillemots.

Craig Inglis, John Lewis marketing director, says: For a long time Never Knowingly Undersold has been perceived as just a price promise, but its more than that: its about the total value we offer our customers, about the quality of the products we sell and the added value customers receive with the service our Partners offer. Now seems the perfect moment to reinforce this message.

John Lewis says it intends to use the ad concept in future campaigns.

The department store chain revived the 80-year-old never knowingly undersold strapline last September in a bid to clarify the positioning to customers through a press campaign.
mad.co.uk

Skateboardanimation

A ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.

Unfortunately i cannot tell exactly which photographer is responsible for which photograph in the fist place. I found some of the photography on the web, in Foundations That's Life and in skateboard magazines such as Monster Skateboard magazine, Limited Skateboarding magazine and Place magazine.
Thanks to everyone who made that little video possible.

Things - Adam Mayer Digitally Designed Geared Business Cards

Adam Mayer has designed paper gear business cards including a special planetary gear configurations!

Adobe Photoshop Cook (Stop motion photoshop cooking)

This is a stop motion video that imagines what it would be like if photoshop were to be for cooking. This is so great!

A video made in stopmotion for competition AdobeYouGC.
The simulation of a tutorial which shows how to make the lovely butter cookies with the new Adobe Photoshop Cook! Whole set was made with cardboard and with kitchen utensils.

The Story of Bottled Water (2010) - La historia de las cosas (español)

http://storyofbottledwater.org

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.

La historia de las cosas



Desde su extracción hasta su venta, uso y disposición, todas las cosas que hay en nuestras vidas afectan a las comunidades, y sin embargo la mayoría de todo esto se oculta. La Historia de las Cosas es un DVD entretenido, dinámico y cargado de datos, que describe en 20 minutos el lado oculto de nuestros patrones de producción y consumo. La Historia de las Cosas expone las conexiones entre una gran cantidad de problemas ambientales y sociales, y hace un llamado a que nos unamos para crear un mundo más sustentable y justo. Les enseñará mucho, les divertirá y puede que cambie para siempre la visión que tienen sobre las cosas.

The Story of Stuff Project: http://www.youtube.com/user/storyofstuffproject