Category: vimeo
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Watching independent film rather than mainstream cinema
Reading Time: 3 minutes When I saw the Wired headline below I was happily going to say that I haven’t been to see a film at the cinema in years but that isn’t strictly true. As you have seen from my blog I have been an active appreciator of independent films. I was at FIFAD…
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Getting Up Getu – some impressive shots
Reading Time: 2 minutes Getting up Getu is short documentary climbing video about Alex Honnold and Felipe Camargo climbing a beautiful roof climb. The most spectacular aspect of this video is the size of the arch that they are climbing. In two or three shots you see the size of the rock formations compared to…
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The pleasure of narrowcasting
Reading Time: 3 minutes Three things have made the pleasure of narrowcasting rather than broadcasting a reality. Broadcasting is finding something that as many people as possible are interested in watching. This is mass appeal television. European Football is one example, british rugby another, skiing another and tennis as a last one. Each of these…
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Springwatch – Some Swiss bees
Reading Time: < 1 minute Spring is finally back and the fun sports are about to start again. Via Ferrata, Rock climbing, hiking and other sports will be possible and we will see what new places I explore. While waiting for the season to start properly I took some time to film bees pollinating a form…
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Spy-cam wildlife filmmaking
Reading Time: < 1 minute Spy-cam wildlife filmmaking is an interesting discipline. It builds upon the decades of innovation that the documentary film genre has built upon. From the earliest images by the Lumière brothers of the workers at a factory to the development of film editing by Eisenstein and Dziva Vertov demonstrated by “The Man…
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Le Sentier des Toblerones
Reading Time: < 1 minute Le Sentier des Toblerones from Mainvision on Vimeo. Hidden among the trees in the Canton de Vaud you can find concrete blocks put there as a defensive line to slow down invading armies. The concrete blocks have a similar shape to chocolate Toblerones. There is a hiking trail that you can…
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The Solar Eclipse as seen from the Vaud Countryside
Reading Time: < 1 minute from Mainvision on Vimeo. Eventually the clouds blocked it.