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http://mandateofheavenclothing.com
I've been thinking a lot about clothing lately. I
think there is a big potential for the whole
clothing experience to be re-invented so we don't
have to hurt the environment and humanity so much.
Instead of always using new fabric and shipping
clothes made in sweat shops by little kids all
over the world a very different approach can be
taken. One major step in the right direction is
what a friend of a friends clothing line is up to.
Mandate of Heaven makes their clothes from
recycled fabric. And they distribute their clothes
primarily locally which cuts down on shipping and
packaging pollution. They're also all very
expressive clothes which gives the person wearing
them a strong individuality and uniqueness which
helps break out of the manufactured mindset of
manufactured clothes.
I was invited to check out their show and decided
to bring my camera. Then I couldn't help myself
and wanted to edit their show into a video with
music by one of my favorite local bands 'Forest
Fire' who I've posted a performance by in the
past.
http://myspace.com/fuckforestfire
Here is the complete list of lovely models: Paige
Wood, Sophia Casanova, Montana Queler, Valerie
Ponelli, John Lustig, Claudia Lopez, Rachel
Antonoff, Sarah Moran, Noelle Lynch, Jessica
Gallucci, Alexa Weir, Lisa Goodwin, Eugina
Williams, Alia Shawkat, Maria Christina, Brissi,
Ying Li, Sara Copeland, Carissa Ackerman. For more
info about the models visit the Mandate of Heaven
MySpace Profile.
http://www.myspace.com/mandate_of_heaven
There is also a flickr photo set from the show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angellus...
Technical Notes about making this video: I shot on
the HVX-200 with all default settings in terms of
gama and color manipulation. The recording setting
was at 720 60p and the Scene setting was put to
'film cam' rather then what I normally shoot on
which is 'video cam'. Then while shooting I took
into consideration everything getting slowed down
and did some more radical camera work that I
otherwise wouldn't have done. I tried to run
around a lot and get different angles.
Then I captured the footage into FCP using Log and
transfer. Because I shot on 'Film Cam' the 60
frames per second that were recorded played back
at 23.98 which is the beautiful slowmotion you see
in the video. I then proceeded to slow the footage
down even further to 50 percent and sometimes 25
percent. I did this by clicking the clip and then
hitting "apple J" and then typing in the speed
that I wanted it to be. Normally I avoid frame
blending but in this case it gave it a nice dreamy
blur that I like so I used it on almost every
shot. Then I used WireTap Pro to record the forest
fire song off their myspace profile. I set the
software to record the computer audio at 48Khz
with no compression and then brought that music
into FCP. Then I downloaded some elements from my
website like the earth and the pattern and dragged
those from my desktop to the FCP timeline in order
to have a background for my graphics. Then I color
corrected by crushing the blacks, lowering the
whites and boosting the mids. Also dragging the
color temperature towards blue as needed for each
shot. Then I used compressor to export to web and
chose the iPod 640 by 480 preset and then uploaded
to YouTube. Then I hopped over here and wrote the
blog post in my wordpress blog and next will
export the video in the Apple TV codec and then
use tubemogul to post that across my various video
services including blip.tv which makes this video
available in iTunes and Miro in HD quality.
This video is under a sharalike creative commons
license so anyone can re-edit and re-post with a
similar license provided they link to the designer
and to myself.
Question for commenters: How else do you think the
clothing experience can be re-invented?
Tags : fashion week new york city 2008 |
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Durée : 143 s |
| Cosmic Consciousness...Magic Sound Fabric...Album..Ambienism |
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from Album Ambienism volume one
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Biography: brought here from the Google search
Hello, I'm Cameron Akhunaton, the human behind the
exploration vehicle I call Magic Sound Fabric. My
goal is to make music that gives me and you an
ethereal experience. Thanks to modern
technological toys, I am able to manifest
chilled-out mind expanding sound waves for your
listening pleasure. I pass the data of these
discoveries to you.
Magic Sound Fabric is Cameron Akhunaton. After
several years of exploring ambient avenues in
rural Virginia, this independent musician has
experienced what he calls a sonic epiphany,
resulting in a more charismatic sound that is
spiced with a funky, uptempo attitude.
Q: Would you like to elucidate your transition
from ambience to more melodic electronic music?
AHKUNATON: Although I love beatless ambient and
will continue to experiment with it, I am finding
it more interesting to work with creating rhythms
and melodic grooves. Rhythm gives me a thrill and
a rush that is very intoxicating. When I compose,
I rework until the groove gives me a pleasant
mind-altering experience. It's a very good time.
Sometimes it does get overwhelming with all the
possibilities. Ambient music has such a huge
experimental palette. I am writing for myself but
also for the listeners. What would the people like
to hear? Where would they like to go?
Album - Ambienism Volume 1
Tracklisting:
01 ZerO One (2) Dreamworld (8:02)
02 Mystical Sun Something Very Pure (7:01)
03 Bluetech Elementary Particles (8:10)
04 (((--------Magic Sound Fabric-----------Cosmic
Consciousness (8:55)---------)))
05 Alpha Wave Movement Another Time... Another
Place (7:45)
06 Richard Bone Stillness Repeating (6:45)
07 Dino Pacifici Clouds Drift (9:03)
08 Alpha Wave Movement A Quiet Invocation (7:30)
09 cyberCHUMP Abstract Air (10:39
a trance new age ambient music....video relax mix
remix song pop beautiful love chillout romantic
spirit enigma dance atmospheric peace alternative
progressive meditative dj nice space techno dance
song cosmic mystic dream electronic lounge
downtempo experimental disco
Tags : ambient video music trance dance electronic new age |
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Durée : 504 s |
| Mao the Pimp, Electric Fabric, JFK Love Child |
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his from USA today... During a 1973 meeting with
U.S. envoy
Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao Zedong offered to
give the United States up to 10 million Chinese
women, according to
documents released by the State Department."You
know, China is a very poor country," Mao is quoted
as saying during the
exchange. "We don't have much. What we have in
excess is women. So if you want them we can give a
few of those to you,
some tens of thousands." ## Scientists have
developed a microfiber fabric that generates its
own electricity, making
enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure
that a small MP3 music player never runs out of
power. If made into a
shirt, the fabric could harness power from its
wearer simply walking around or even from a slight
breeze, they reported in the journal Nature. ##
Meet the man who claims to be the long lost son of
JFK. Jack Worthington has just made his entrance
into public life by talking to papers in his home
of Vancouver. There is no DNA evidence yet, but he
claims his mother was very close to Lyndon
Johnson's family and that provided the connection
to Kennedy...the love connection
Tags : Mao the Pimp Electric Fabric JFK Love Child |
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