00700, John's MG-A

Spent a morning with John Foley and the MG-A that he's renovating in his garage.

Took along the work camera and my stills gear to record this part of the process so that he has a memory of it all.

What a lovely way to pass the time:

00691 Trampoline

Take one small girl, add trampoline and GoPro.

Mix and serve:

DO NOT EAT

00690 Chris Foss

So me and Tom went to see Chris Foss and we sat there while he talked and painted and drew in the back of my book.

I said, "Can I take a picture of you working?"

He said, "Can you make a video of it?"

I said, "Sho' can."

And so I did.

That was it BTFW.

The finished picture looked something like this (technically it looked exactly like this):

So basically an epic afternoon learning airbrush skillz from the man who illustrated the Joy of Sex (and heavily influenced the shape of modern day science fiction).

Not bad, not bad at all.

00687 Spindly moving twisty thing

I am really struggling for a name for this one:

It's kind of an evolving, dynamic, snake-like spiral with sort of textured bits and stuff.

See? Really difficult. I'd almost go for impossible.

00686 Ninja Warrior

Ninja Warriors are excellent at doing up seat belts (although this video fails to demonstrate that), so that's why I've picked a Ninja Warrior to be the guy who shows people how to do up seat belts in the new aircraft safety video that I'm making at work.

Hi----ya!

00685 Londres a Paris au Velo

Or whatever the French for four days in the sunshine riding through the Normandy countryside.

Followed by a sherbet.

C'est la Guerre, mes amis.

00681 InstaRockets

Instead of doing something practical this weekend, I wasted a couple of hours making this for Instagram theme "on repeat":

What a square.

00676 Video wallpaper

Comes in 5m rolls, 80 cm width.

Used for a dance night down the road. Also an experiment into taking large text files and flowing them over the top of video. I thought about sticking the whole of a film script over the top, as it's just a copy/paste kind of thing, but in the end 80's song lyrics seemed more appropriate. As they always do.

The paint in water stuff is from the last post. The ripples underwater are from my bath:

0675 Video stuff

I completely forgot to post up the experiments with paint and water, as well as any 3D stuff I'd done (which wasn't much, as most of it's work stuff).

So here's the paint and water things:

#water and #paint #video

A video posted by Lenny (@thisguycalledlenny) on Apr 19, 2014 at 10:17am PDT

#water and #paint #video

A video posted by Lenny (@thisguycalledlenny) on Apr 18, 2014 at 5:07am PDT

It's the plastic packaging from my GoPro, filled with water, stuck in front of a black background and lit with my bike light. Filmed with a 5D mk2 and a 100mm macro, then messed with in After Effects.

The other bit is some car headlights from Cinema 4D and it's just a test to see how to make trails in After Effects:

#thisisatest #video #headlights

A video posted by Lenny (@thisguycalledlenny) on Apr 18, 2014 at 3:15am PDT

Random.

00674 Scottish Holiday Videos are GO

Generally, when I'm in Scotland on Holiday, I make a film of the whole thing.

When I'm not in Scotland, I don't.

There are limits.