Video Reel

my favorite video reel in the world is at bcmontwork.com

here is a page that has a video reel of my 2 very talented son's football highlights.

http://bcmontwork.wix.com/bcmontwork#!bcmontwork/c14wj

Hubblecast

I found a very interesting podcast on iTunes...

Hubblecast HD

the Description states "The latest news about astronomy, space, and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope presented in High Definition"

if you are at all into what is going on is space this is the place for us!

there are so many podcasts to choose from I would suggest starting off with  epsisode #50 "Hubble's History Told by Hubble's Scientists"

I found episode #49 "Unweaving the Rainbow" to be really informative. The video explains & shows how Hubble scientists look at the colors they observe and turn it into graphs and numbers that can be studied.

This page has everything from the study of black holes to changes in distant planets as well as the incredible photos and information about our own galaxy and solar system.

If you are interested in the "Final Frontier" check it out...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hubblecast-59-unweaving-rainbow/id258935617?i=123830221&mt=2

good/bad compression

Here is an example of bad compression. Tony Yayo's video for "I know You Don't Love Me" is very creative and entertaining but as you can see the video is a lil' older & it looks terrible when you expand it...



The 2nd video has really good compression. This song is much newer and you can really tell there is better technology now. Here is M.I.A.'s video for "Bad Girls".


so the lesson here is to make sure the video is compressed correctly. You can shoot a video with the latest camera and sound but if you don't compress it correctly it won't look nearly as good as it should.

2012 Juanita Jr. Rebels Sophomores

Here is a video I made for my son's football team. The Juanita Jr. Rebels is a Kirkland Boys and Girls youth program. They are in the Greater Eastside Junior Football Association. My son is #10 Ten Montgomery, in this video he is a 11 year old 6th grader.
for more of my videos go to: http://www.youtube.com/user/bcmontwork

Occult World of Commerce

Perhaps the most interesting video I have ever seen is Jordan Maxwell and Jason Whitney's "Occult World of Commerce". Any person that watches this video I hope would be blown away by the information shared in this presentation. This video begins to explain OUR world of commerce and the laws that it & we follow in our everyday lives without having a clue of what is going on.
 

 If you would like to tumble a bit further down the rabbit hole head to www.JordanMaxwell.com

creative use of video on a web site

I found a very creative use of video at www.TomatoJaws.com. The site is Russian I believe so it is a bit different to begin with. Each page has a different background that is almost like a big moving .gif. The video background for a site is just never something I have thought of doing until now. This site has a very modern "weird" look that I really like.

in these 2 screenshots the girl in the background is moving just a bit for a very original look.

take a look @ www.TomatoJaws.com

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is a film director, screenwriter, producer and sometimes  even an actor in his movies. He is well known for his films Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Inglorious Bastards & his latest hit Django. Tarantino is a very good screenwriter and wrote one of my favorite movies ever Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. He dropped out of school in 9th grade and ended up working at a video store for five years. He got the job initially because he was an expert on movies and in the five years he worked there he watched as many different movies as he could. He considers this time in his life as his "college" and this education helped shape what types of films he wanted make. I like that fact that he is such a fan of Hollywood and how much he is into the traditional form of movie making shooting on to film. Last year in Video Production class we made a commercial for Scarecrow Video (one of the last big video stores in Seattle) in the U-District and the owner of the store said that Tarantino walked all the way from downtown Seattle to wonder around his store for several hours. When asked in interviews about different movies or directors his answers reflect that he has a great respect and admiration for all of the great people of movies that have come before him or are great now and even many of those that I have never heard of. I think that his style of writing and shooting are very different than most directors and writers. His way of shocking the viewer with outragous writing or scenes brings a weird type of harsh reality to his movies that other movie makers just don't deliver.

Here is a link to a trailer of perhaps his most popular film "Pulp Fiction" :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY