Random blathering from the esoteric world of IPBrian…A Video With Some Meaning
We have been talking about books for next years book club and I recommended two. This first is perhaps the most important, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
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Star Wars Uncut
This Crowdsourcing Thing
It is a bit of constant amazement to me that these sorts of projects exist and seem to flourish on the internet. Below is a home-brewed version of Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope, completely put together from different small film tribute style projects around the internet. Its a basically a bunch of 15 seconds clips that encompass the entire film. Just thought I would share…if you make it though let me know!
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Some Moves Going On
Times They Are A Changin’
I decided a bit back that I needed a different home for my travel photograph, and IPBrian.com just wasn’t the place. I created BatteredLuggage.com for the singular purpose of me having a dedicated home for my travel work. My personal work will likely stay here, but to better segregate, promote and keep licensing straight, it just works better.
Get Up, Get On Up
A number of my creative commons licenses works that fall into the travel category have been moved for this site over to BatteredLuggage.com. If you happen to be missing something you were looking for, head over there and take a look.
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The OneWorld MegaDo Top 10 – I Need Your Vote!
I made the top 10! I am in the running for one of the top three spots. Brian (@thepointsguy) is going to choose between the three videos with the most votes so this is where I need your help. Go to ThePointsGuy and vote for “The Other Brian”. You can see my dorky video as well. I had quite a bit of fun putting it together.
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The Points Guy’s OneWorld MegaDO Seatmate Contest
I love miles and points and my preferred airline is American, so when the OneWorld MegaDO came around you would think it would have been a no brainer for me to attend. The only thing was, I was at work when it launched and it sold out in just over 23 minutes. Apparently lots of other people use OneWorld carriers like I do. I was sad!
But then I remembered Brian Kelly aka The Points Guy was planning on giving away a seat on the trip. I patiently waited for the announcement and lo and behold, he decided to do a video contest! Something I love to have an excuse to have fun with.
I did all the work on the video myself…shooting, acting, and editing.
The idea behind the video was to create a video about the subject Brian requested, but I wanted it to be something more, something fun in the background. The video is littered with references to the miles and points game. I say things, there is product placement, intentionally obscured websites, pictures, etc that should look familiar to people in the miles and points hobby. I count 23 references, however I may have done a bit too good of a job obscuring them in shallow depth of field (thats what you get when you are the actor and the cameraman). Hope you all have fun!
For those techie people out there I shot this on a Canon 5D Mark II with a 50mm 1.4 lens. Its all natural light. I edited on Adobe Premiere CS5, and the teleportation effect is a combination of a Film Riot episode and a VideoCopilot tutorial edited on Adobe After Effects
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