Category: Life

Hawaiian Cinemagraph

Dora and Christal Cinemagraph

Recently I discovered a website that I thought was really cool. It’s cinemagraphs.com. The thing I really like about this is that these are not just your typical animated gifs. These instead are great photographs that have subtle movements isolated to only one area which places an emphasis on the subject. So I thought I’d give this a try. This image is not necessarily the best photo, but this was more for me to learn the technical aspects of this. Thanks to Christal and Dora for being my models for this scenic cinemagraph in Hawaii.

Hawaii Infographic

Recently Dora and I took a trip to visit her sister and brother-in-law Christal and Daniel in Hawaii. It was a very fun trip with lots of things to do and see and plenty of time to relax and enjoy the scenery. And of course take lots of photos. This is an infographic I made of a few trip statistics and all the things we did/saw. I’m so glad Daniel and Christal let go visit and stay with them. They were wonderful hosts. Photos and video to come soon. Click here to view the PDF.

A Cars Chrismas

This is a quick film I did with a few of my family members over the Christmas break. We put on our own family film festival and split into four teams and each created its own film. We each only had one week to come up with an idea, film it, and edit. Then we all got together one night and laughed at everyone’s awesome films. They all turned out great and it was fun to do. Thanks to everyone that participated. Here is my team’s short film.

St. Moritz Olympics

This last weekly project was to design a one line logo for the London Olympics. We decided to broaden that scope and pick any olympic location. So I chose St. Moritz, Switzerland. So the design was supposed to be just one continuous line and I started that with the St. part of the name. But then I failed miserably with the rest and just did a design that was obviously inspired by the requirements but didn’t completely follow through with them. So this is what I came up with. Maybe at some point I’ll take this beyond a wordmark and add a graphic logo as well.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. So much better than Christmas, Independence Day, Halloween and Valentines. Who wouldn’t love a holiday centered around Food and Football? Oh, and giving thanks and family I guess. This year I shot some video of the day. I even went as far as to run a camera on timelapse in the kitchen while dinner was being prepared. The timelapse shows how frantic and busy the day is while the rest of the video shows how fun and relaxing it can be.

Sicilian Photoshop

For my birthday some of my siblings decided to give me a canvas print of a photo I’ve taken. So it has taken me awhile to decide on a photo to use but I finally decided on this one of a boat sitting along the Cefalu, Italy beach. However, there were so many beach umbrellas and people in the background I didn’t think it was the best for a large print. So I decided to put my photoshop skills to use and fix it up. This is the side by side comparison, can you spot the difference?

Peterson Film Festival

This Christmas break I am making my family participate in a Family Film Festival. It’s called the “50 Cents Film Festival” and is presented by Peterson Productions and Swedish Pancakes. Mmm…I love swedish pancakes. The festival will be similar to a 48 Hour Film Fest. But instead of 48 hours we have a week. Another requirement will be that all video must be filmed with a flip video camera since we all received one for Christmas last year.

So to introduce the festival I created this short little video starring my beautiful wife. I had fun creating all the titles for it and the film festival logos as well. Dora designed the awesome poster to go along with everything. I think it will be a lot of fun and can’t wait to see what my family will come up with.

Washington Getaway

This last summer Dora and I able to go visit my sister Joella in her Washington home. It was great fun. We went whale watching around the San Juan islands and saw Orca Whales. Spent a day in Seattle. Then hung out in Olympia where my sister lives. It was great fun and I made this little film to remember it. Enjoy and thanks Joella.