Follow Max and Emily Tyrie on their American adventure. It's a little bit like "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West", but with people instead of mice.
Monday, May 28, 2007
25. Nick & Gabriella's wedding
Some friends of ours tied the knot this weekend and we were there to witness the joyous event! And, almost as exciting, Emily made an entry into the professional floristry world by making her very first bridal bouquet, a bouquet for the bridesmaid and a full set of buttonholes (or boutonnieres as they say over here!).
Here are some pictures:
The beautiful Gabriella - with a rather nice bouquet ;-)
What a smashing couple!
Nick and his best man, er... Nick (oooh, what a lovely boutonniere!)
Over the last couple of weeks Jonah, Tiff and Em and I have been crazy busy making the following music video.
Epic records, in conjunction with Apple, have run a competition to make a video for the new "Modest Mouse" single titled "Missed the Boat".
Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially (all 4133 of them). We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and there's a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts: just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinko's bill!
The video can be viewed on the Apple website below -
NOTE: their site (Apple's!!!) doesn't seem to be too stable and we've had a problem viewing the vids. We know you CAN view them in Safari or Internet Explorer (you click on the thumbnail and WAIT - be patient it WILL appear) but it doesn't work in Firefox... Also apparently you can vote on the video which will help it to win - but I can't for the life of me see where you vote??
The easiest way to see it is through YouTube (which has nothing to do with the contest). Anyway, check it out and let us know what you think...
We've had some really good feedback, and we got featured on woostercollective.com (look for the May 24th post). So I was very excited about that. We're right above a feature about Banksy! As of today we've had nearly 8,500 hits on the YouTube page, which is pretty good considering it's only been on there for 4 days!
As I said, it's a competition, so if we win our video is the official video and gets shown on MTV and the like - we also win a new computer and a couple of goodies. We have no idea when they will announce the winner, we're just waiting about with our fingers crossed.
