2nd Place Videos

Merry Christmas from Adam Quirk on Vimeo. A little gift for a little girl I know First footage shot with my new Canon HV20. Pretentious notes for videotards: Shot at night, so there are some artefacts from compression, and the built-in deinterlacer in Premiere CS3 doesn't cut it. But damn, it still looks rool good. Canon HV20, HD 1080i Cinemode, 1280x720 at 29.97fps, h.264 around 3mpbs average, 52mm wide-angle lens. No idea what Vimeo chops it down to for their Flash player, but they don't take much off. Looks damn close to the original source. Cast: Adam Quirk

Sound to Video test from blair neal on Vimeo. Test output from my max/msp+jitter patch that listens to music and outputs video effects. Song is sunset rubdown- shut up i am dreaming of places where lovers have wings. Chosen for its dynamics. Source video is some open source river flyover Cast: blair neal

NBC Blue Screen of Death from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo. Evidently the IT and custodial crews are on strike too. The famous "Observation Deck" has dwindled to a "tion Deck", and they can't get any video to play on their fancy TVs. Cast: wreckandsalvage

Jake. from Amir on Vimeo. Slice of life, brother. Just two dudes shootin' da SHIT! Jake. www.JakeAndAmir.com Cast: Amir, Jake Hurwitz

CV4 from Blake Whitman on Vimeo. Goings on in the office that last few weeks. Sometimes it actually feels like all this is happening at once. Cast: Blake Whitman, Andrew Pile, soxiam, Jeff Rubin, Justin Ouellette, Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken, Amir, Amir Cohen, sarah schneider, Kevin Corrigan and Patrick Cassels

Tomorrow We Work Defgrip Promo from streetphire on Vimeo. The second trailer for Tomorrow We Work. Joe Cox is a busy man with deadlines approaching and summer being well and truely wet and windy he hasn't had the easiest of tasks to complete this video. Come January 2008 and one last trip away to get the final pieces of the video jigsaw together we should see the release of one of the me anticipated videos of all time. Its kind of mad that we can say this as the whole hype about Joe's videos has only ever come from the people who watch it. No adverts in mags, no huge budgets and trailers on other big videos just purely the fact that the word spread like wild fire when Voices dropped on us in August 2005 because it was genuinely a well made video with thought put into the filming and editing with a sweet munch of riders from a tight scene in Sheffield. Amazing! Cast: streetphire

December 2nd from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Cast: Charlie McCarthy

Intimate Experience from victoria on Vimeo. An Intimate Experience in San Francisco Cast: victoria, jedidiah, actively moving and D's

No. 3 YACHT - "See a Penny Pick it up" from Retread Sessions on Vimeo. Retread Session No. 3 YACHT - "See a Penny Pick it up" Cast: Retread Sessions

life recording: a beach in nice, france from svanes on Vimeo. last day in nice, france... taken a few weeks ago Cast: svanes

W&S 047 - Upload Test from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo. This is a test. This is a collage of tests. Navigating the backwaters. Cast: wreckandsalvage

Ridge Soaring the Massanutten from cs on Vimeo. 00:00 - Intro, ridge soaring the south leg 01:43 - Hang gliders 03:53 - Ridge soaring the north leg at 2x (playback speed) 04:48 - Resume 1x, thermal, wrap-up Ridge soaring along the Massanutten ridge (Virginia, USA) in an ASK-21 sailplane (glider) one fine winter day. The shorter winter days usually result in fewer potential thermal soaring opportunities during the winter season in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. However, the hardier soaring enthusiasts often take advantage of the ridge and wave lift generated by strong winds associated with the low pressure systems which frequent the region during the winter months. The heroes of this clip are the hang glider pilots who brave the elements (minus 4 degrees Celsius in winds exceeding 50 mph) without even the meager protection afforded by a sailplane fuselage. Public Service Announcement: No gliders, hang gliders, or pilots were harmed during the making of this film. All maneuvers were performed by highly experienced pilots and should not be attempted without appropriate training or flight experience. N.B. Always communicate and coordinate with the pilots of other aircraft before flying in close proximity situations. Respect all ridge soaring rules and FAA/JAA/NAA/CAA/etc. regulations. Never soar the ridge at 2x in Real Life. Interested in flying sailplanes or hang gliders? In the Greater Washington (DC, Maryland, Virginia) area please visit: Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association http://www.m-asa.org Skyline Soaring Club http://www.skylinesoaring.org Cumberland Soaring Group http://www.cumberlandsoaring.org Shenandoah Valley Soaring (Waynesboro/Charlottesville) http://www.svsoar.org Capital Hang Gliding And Paragliding Association http://www.chgpa.org The Maryland Hang Gliding Association http://www.marylandhanggliding.org Elsewhere in the US: SSA (Sailplanes) http://ssa.org USHGA (Hang Gliders) http://www.ushga.org Music credits: Farewell Transmission, Magnolia Electric Co. The Birth and Death of the Day, Explosions In The Sky Broken Boy Soldier, The Raconteurs Dreamt for Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain (Aka Maxine), Sparklehorse This is a Lo-Fi production. For professional HD soaring video, please look elsewhere on vimeo.com or try http://www.gpgliding.com. Cast: cs

J&A Behind the Scenes in HD! from Amir on Vimeo. We wanted to make our first HD Jake and Amir a good one, so we ran two ideas by our coworkers: "Make Believe" and "Jacket." This is us "pitching them" the one we ended up using. It's a good look into how half baked our ideas are before we actually start shooting. You can see the final product here: http://www.vimeo.com/342968 Cast: Amir, Jake Hurwitz, amandalynferri, sarah schneider and Patrick Cassels

12th & 3rd in Brooklyn from maya on Vimeo. every year on the sunday after labor day, a group of brooklynites gather to play their favorite childhood game on the streets where they grew up. Cast: maya

A Brooklyn Sunrise from Dave Allen on Vimeo. You might not expect it but a Brooklyn sunrise is beautiful way to wake up. Cast: Dave Allen

Protecting and Maintaining Your Heterosexual House of Cards from kirby1 on Vimeo. The homophobes are more savvy than you think... Cast: kirby1

Beirut -- Secret Show Sept'07 Video 2 from ObsceneNYC on Vimeo. 09-19-2007: Secret show by Beirut @ Coco 66 in Greenpoint Brooklyn check out www.obscenenyc.com for more info. Cast: ObsceneNYC

Connected Ventures Tour courtesy of Jakob Lodwick from ProducerSong on Vimeo. A brief tour of the offices of College Humor, Busted Tees, and Vimeo. Supplement to the Digital Cafe Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR interview with Jakob Lodwick located at: http://marioa.squarespace.com/marios-digital-cafe-blog/ Video originally posted here: http://marioa.squarespace.com/blog/2007/12/7/behind-the-scenes-of-connected-ventures-with-jakob-lodwick.html Cast: ProducerSong, Jakob Lodwick

Sigur Ros- Minn Heima "I Gaer" from Michael Shivers on Vimeo. Read More about this on my website http://www.mdshivers.com/video.html Check out my YouTube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36nw-fcEAOw I made this video for a contest that Sigur Ros announced in November, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/group/MinnHeima . Cast: Michael Shivers

Gone in a Flash - HD from Chris Crutchfield on Vimeo. This is our entry that won us 2nd place in YouTube's Project:Direct Competition. It looks so much better in HD. ------------ Nonna and Grandpa (Joe) are fed up with an inconsiderate neighbor who allows his dog to "fertilize" their yard... So, Nonna comes up with a retaliation strategy. However, she decides her granddaughter, Maria, should take some responsibility around the house and be the one to execute the plan. Cast: Chris Crutchfield