We're loving this home movie sent to us by Eric Testroete from Vancouver, who works as a 3D artist on video games.
The film documents his trip to Japan last October, and features most of the 3340 photographs (that's a whopping 46 gigs) he took while there, on his Pentax K20D*.
It made us think a few things:
Digital photography is ace
As a non-professional film maker, there's no way you could afford to do this on 35mm neg. With digital, the only costs are memory cards and time.
Sharing is ace
Once, you might have toiled over a project like this for months, but only been able to show it to a small audience of friends and relatives. Thanks to the web, and particularly its facility for sharing, you can reach a huge audience in no time.
Computers
They can be ace too.
Most holiday advertising is not at all ace
This made us want to pick up our passports and jump on a jet plane more than just about any advert we care to remember. It's not glossy and perfect. It just feels real.
LCD Soundsystem are very ace
Great track!
All in all, not a bad thing to find in your inbox on a Monday. Cheers Eric.
*He then used Lightroom to process all the images, Métamorphose to rename all the exported files, Sony Vegas to import the sequence and cut it up, then Virtual Dub to scale it down and compress it.