Los Angeles Shot Through a Snow Globe

Colin Mika and Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films created this amazing time-lapse video of Los Angeles by photographing the city through a “snow globe”. They captured 4000 images with a custom rig, which consisted of a Canon 5D Mark II, a homemade tilt-shift lens, a light bulb filled with water, and paper cutouts for shaped bokeh.

Happy holiday season, Los Angeles. You can still shine.

The World of Social Media 2011

Beyond the fact that the motion graphics on this are simple, smart and appropriately applied, there are some good figures to have at your disposal (when quoting the number of tweets per second at the Christmas dinner table). You’re uncle will be suitably dismayed…

Talk: Creating Content that Drives Traffic

It was a pleasure giving a talk to LAANE- Los Angeles Alliance For A New Economy – on how to create compelling content. Basic rule of thumb… first know what your audience will be attracted to and what need you are solving.

This was the first talk I’d given on direct marketing using email, twitter and facebook… in other words Social Media.