today and tomorrow

Skateboarding shot with a RED camera at 120 FPS on Vimeo HD: pure bliss.

found at kottke

Nike is really pushing it lately. New technologies, new products, events and tons of projects … you just can’t get around it. So I just came across this video on the Nike Sportswear website. It’s a cooperation between ‘Will It Blend‘ and Nike. Everyone knows those ‘Will It Blend’ videos, but this time Nike asked them to blend a true classic, the Air Max 90 Infrared with the new Air Max Current. The result is an Air Max 90 Current Infrared, not really a surprise.
I think this is the first time I see a brand destoying its own product on video (besides the car industry). Most brands are so anxious about thing like that.
By the way, it’s really nice to see Nike shifting away from full flash websites to hybrid ones. I also like the new look of them. Hey Nike! Now fix the Nike+ website asap!

This is probably an unofficial music video for Bergwein by Efdemin, but worth to watch and listen to. If you liked this one, you’ll probably want to hear Spark by Lawrence too. Both release their music on Dial, which is having a Dial Records Night on August 29th at the Panorama Bar in Berlin.

Macaframa is the name of a crew of track bike riders but also the name of a film about them. In this first clip you can see a quite impressive skid by Nate Gogol. But actually all their clips on Vimeo are worth watching, some of them were shot with a high speed camera and the image quality is just lush.

And this is the trailer:

Portishead in Portishead - a 31 minute piece filmed in December 2007 in the drama block at Geoff Barrow’s old school, Gordano School in Portishead and featuring 7 songs from Third.

found at nerdcore

Ah … French pop music, if it looks good, I could be interested. So this is the new music video for ‘Ce Jeu’ by Yelle. It was directed by Yoann Lemoine and styled by Jean Paul Lespagnard.
Can it be more French than that? Colorful!

‘Made In Queens‘ is a short documentary directed by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens. It’s about a small crew of 6 Trinida­dian teenagers in Queens, New York, who customize their BMX bikes with huge soundsystems. They gave their bikes even names:

Basszilla, which looks definitely louder than in that November 2007 The New York Times article.

Tinnitus Rex

Frankenbike

This is the official trailer.

found at CR Blog

Polar Candle is a project by wowlab. It is a video installation based on cylindrical Anamorphosis. The effect isn’t new, but the execution is excellent

This is quite a nice TV commercial for Guinness, unfortunatly the beer itself isn’t that good.

Tonight is the premiere of the second season of Mad Men. Yeah! If you live in the USA at least. But if you want to catch up and see the first season, then you’ll have to get this DVD box.
For those of you don’t know what Mad Men is all about:

The series (set in the 1960s) revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper, the biggest ad man (and ladies man) in the business, and his colleagues at the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. As Don makes the plays in the boardroom and the bedroom, he struggles to stay a step ahead of the rapidly changing times and the young executives nipping at his heels. The series also depicts authentically the roles of men and women in this era while exploring the true human nature beneath the guise of 1960s traditional family values.