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Pat Connor is a film/video enthusiast currently working as an Associate on the Merchandising team at LetsTalk.com in San Francisco, CA. Pat is passionate about bringing high quality video to the web, being adventurous and innovative, and collaborating with his friends and colleagues. Like what you see/read? Want to reach out as a like-minded artiste? Then reach out to me!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Who Are You? or Tunnel, Light, and a Map
In this video, I used a Canon SLR in favor of my older PowerShot to re-shoot the mapping video. Although the camera gave me more creative control, my inexperience with the camera got the better of me when shooting in low light, and the final sequence looks crazily over-saturated. What I did achieve with this piece is an audio track that gives the still images a sense of three-dimensions. As I learned from reading the Final Cut manual, humans use sound to locate objects in space. So, taking advantage of the steady pan in the video, I similarly panned the audio from right to left. The effect is subtle, but I think that I've successfully used this aspect of video (often overlooked) to boost the realism of the still images.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Mapping Test Video
Following is a short test video for a project about mapping. My inspiration was the Google Maps Street View, which is a documentation of various cities across the globe. In the program, the user is free to look in any direction, and move along the street as a car would. I was interested in the process of obtaining the photos, and it turns out that a vehicle is equipped with 9 cameras and a GPS. Those photos are then merged to create a cylindrical image that can be navigated by the user.
In my project, I wanted to stitch together two points on the map similar to the way that the different photos are stitched together in Photoshop. The effect is a constant pan, but one that shifts across space and time.
In my project, I wanted to stitch together two points on the map similar to the way that the different photos are stitched together in Photoshop. The effect is a constant pan, but one that shifts across space and time.
Monday, March 15, 2010
The Breakup of the Hydrilla
I uncovered this video while using my older external HD. It's dated 3/24/06, but in my memory there's no way that I could have been in Wakulla Springs at that time.
The forest on the opposite bank of the spring is reflected in the smooth water. Invasive Hydrilla breaks up the reflected image. The water and the plant reminds me of a study of surface by Claude Monet in the UMMA called The Breakup of the Ice.
The forest on the opposite bank of the spring is reflected in the smooth water. Invasive Hydrilla breaks up the reflected image. The water and the plant reminds me of a study of surface by Claude Monet in the UMMA called The Breakup of the Ice.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Combination
Alternate edit for Combination. In this case using a diptic to keep each scene separate throughout the video.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
waveField
Two perspectives on a difficult conversation. The obscured view acts out the narrative supplied by the interview.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Videos from Rus
In many cases, the snow removers had to use bulky equipment, like this buldozer. Difficult to use a machine that isn't meant for the job specifically.
Outside the historic Art Museum in St. Pete. Video was taken from the walkway leading to the frozen Neva river.
Video taken at a famous pedestrian walkway late at night in St. Pete. The walkway was the best cleared area during the whole trip to Rus.
Provincial Russia was a winter wonderland. Here, our group is visiting the birthplace of influential poet N. Klyuev.
Couldn't help but take a video of this tractor. It kept moving back and forth outside a historic building we visited. Only a towel covered the engine.
We couldn't take the bus over this small log-bridge, so we moved into an old VW truck. If any of us were scared, the driver told us to close our eyes.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Petersburg
Photos from St. Petersburg! Today, we helped students in a Russian k-12 school locate St. Petersburg FLA on a map of the U.S.... More to come...
Top 10 awesome things about my trip so far:
Learning history/background of St. Pete, and experiencing city on foot
Actually reading words in Cyrillic
Learning key phrase "thank you" in Russian and getting by on sheer over-confidence in conversations
Easily transitioning to thinking in rubles and a 24 hr. clock
Grinning and bearing the cold, snow, and ice like a good Russian
Saving a fellow pedestrian from slipping and falling in St. Pete
Having tea and cookies while working past closing at the Vytegra History museum, then packing up and walking home (like an actual resident would)
Okay, that's only 8, but it's well past midnight and I have a big day tomorrow!
Top 10 awesome things about my trip so far:
Learning history/background of St. Pete, and experiencing city on foot
Actually reading words in Cyrillic
Learning key phrase "thank you" in Russian and getting by on sheer over-confidence in conversations
Easily transitioning to thinking in rubles and a 24 hr. clock
Grinning and bearing the cold, snow, and ice like a good Russian
Saving a fellow pedestrian from slipping and falling in St. Pete
Having tea and cookies while working past closing at the Vytegra History museum, then packing up and walking home (like an actual resident would)
Okay, that's only 8, but it's well past midnight and I have a big day tomorrow!
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