Caves
bbc planet earth
*deer cave in borneo. Largest.
*glow worms capturing prey with silk and mucus.
*Use of colored lights to cheat cave illumination/ambiance
*manta rays in sea caves
*snake catching bats
*cave salamanders with external gills. Use of shadow on the wall.
*Bats getting snatched by birds of pray in mid air.
*Birds using echolocation clicks
*camera circling calcite stalacts
*mayans and cenotes
*sulfuric acid flowing out of via luz cave in mexico.
*la truquilla? bacteria using sulfuric acid. xtremophiles?
audionetwork
music for docs and film productions.
http://www.audionetwork.com/production-music/production-genre
used by vice magazine
shallow seas
Shallow seas
*un sol de mar eating estrellitas de mar timelapse.
*great white hunting seals in slow mo.
*The sea birds and the humpback whales
bbc planet earth documentary
margaritas azules en hongdae
10,000 years
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
podcast.
ida
See polish film ida (2014)
interviews
David Carr. Addiction and journalism.
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/13/386015153/david-carr-called-himself-part-pirate-part-thug-but-also-a-decent-person
Bob Simon. Detained in the gulf war.
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/12/385752310/fresh-air-remembers-60-minutes-correspondent-bob-simon
the jungle
jungles. bbc 2006. part of the series planet earth.
perhaps one of the best documentaries i have ever seen.
*seamless time lapse of fungi and plants growing.
*bird of paradise with fluorescent blue plumage bouncing and courting a female.
*monkeys!
*cordyceps emerging from the sad carcasses of insects as the camera circles them.
*gangs of human-like, badass chimps roaming their turfs in the congo.
executive producer: alastair fothergill
cinematography: doug allen
aerial dp: Michael Kelem
technical aspects:
http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/news-articles/hd-discoveries-location-planet-earth/418325
workflow, use of hd and time lapse
production:
2,000 days of shooting,
70+ camera operators
$25 million
5 years
(source USA TODAY)
cameras:
Panasonic’s AJ-HDC27 VariCam
Sony HDW-750 HDCAM cameras
35mm and super16mm also used (ARRI SR2 Super 16 cameras up to 150fps).
Photron camera for super slow motion (up to 400fps) (used since 1970s).
More on use of photron camera in the article.
aerial photography:
Cineflex-HD gyro-stabilize with Sony HDC-F950 CineAlta camera and Canon HJ40 40x zoom lens
post production:
use of Autodesk Lustre and Smoke
Sledgehammer HD!O NAS storage
planet earth website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mywy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Allan
yazidis, jews, the crusades and terror
Yazidi man in traditional clothes| via wikipedia
article from the NY times: The First Victims of the Crusade
Comparison of militant Islam and the crusaders of medieval times.
First victims of the crusades were Jews. The Christians descended on Jewish communities as they rode to Jerusalem. The Jews had a choice of converting or being killed.
In Mosul, Iraq, Yazidis, Muslims and Christians coexisted until ISIS arrived in 2014. The militants asked the infidels the same 900 year-old question- convert or die.
Yazidis~Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity.
Book by Susan Jacoby “Religious Conversion: A Secular History.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
banyeo to sajik
banyeo. saw the local tomcat chasing a marauding intruder. they tumbled out from under a parked car letting out war cries. the catfight rolled onto the busy street. the cabdrivers slowed down and gave the warriors a brake-a courtesy not often extended to civilians and pedestrians.
crossed the suyong into yeonsan. followed gobun-ro along baeksan mountain. went over the tunnel that cuts into one of baeksan’s protuding ridges. at the top, i visited the ancient tombs of yeonsandong (옌산동고분군) from the gaya period (first to 6th century AD).
found a not-so-ancient artifact in the sexy and shady district surrounding yeonsan intersection. possible relic of a demolished love motel.
followed the worldcup-daero road, renamed for the 2002 fifa world cup that took place near by.
past geojeyeok entered an old neighborhood.
signs of mudang and shamans.
a door to an abandoned house.
a neighborhood that will be swept away by the new korea of high rises and lotte castles.
a pastoral scene.
