HEM Productions - Video Posts

On The Water

Roger — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:28:37 +0000

"On the Water" is a 96 second video produced from royalty free content provided by Getty Images for the mishmash Music/Video/Remix competition. Categories include Short Story, Music Video, and Video Art.

"On the Water" is a compositing of video elements to demonstrate impact of imagery to musics in a way that might be used in narrative, documentary, promotional, or other types of video – the way one might use royalty free content. The composites include elements of water, life, and body movement. Video is likely PG-13 as it has very brief nudity.

Scroll to right in the lightbox viewer to "like" the video – It's a vote for me in the contest which I'd greatly appreciate.

Community Support – WESTconsin Credit Union and Hot Air Affair

Roger — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:23:12 +0000

I am a big supporter of community involvement of residents and people that work for companies in the community that generate business from the community. I don't believe that companies are people but I do believe that people work for legal enties defined as companies… in the end it is people with names that make decisions.

I'm also a supporter of credit unions so having a chance to interview WESTconsin Credit Union, a corporate sponsor of an event I love – the Hot Air Affair in Hudson Wisconsin – was a privelidge for me. They are local and support local in many ways.

This is an interview from 2010 with Jay Fahl of WESTconsin Credit Union on their corporate sponsorship of the Hudson Hot Air Affair.

Reflection, Old Day, VideoSpigot video in 1993

Roger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:21:28 +0000

My concluding thoughts for 2011.

The end of 2011 started with scanning. I started scanning old slides and looking at old video footage. The memories made me realized what a wonderful life I’ve had, and the great people I’ve enjoyed it with. Plus, I didn’t have to jump off a bridge to realize it.

The scanning gave me with warm feelings and another realization that I’ve had wonderful opportunities to participate in a history many only viewed. My wife has always been a part of this, and the old photo’s reminded me of that in a warm feeling I’ve enjoyed for days. I am fortunate that we had bought a good 35mm SLR camera back in the days. The quality of the scanned slides has been amazing so especially enjoyable. We’ve documented many events in our lives which include my art works and involvement in leading edge technologies so I’ve got lots of material to “broadband enable”.

Watch video by clicking on image above or click here to read the rest of the story.

As 2012 approaches this video looks back to what it was like to capture and edit video in the early 1990's – not quite 20 years ago. The video's were low bitrate, small frame size because of limitations to typical personal computers. That carried through to the late 90's as the Internet was also too slow to handle high bitrate video. That has changed drastically and this video contrast the difference.

5 Cats Sing Jingle Bells

Roger — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:25:43 +0000

This was about all I did for Christmas so far… An animation with 5 cats that sound more like ducks because my keyboard doesn't make the best cat sounds.

Jingle Bells Public Domain music from Archive.org

Peace Brings Us Together

Roger — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:07 +0000

Sometimes ideas just come around when you play with drawing, which this one came from playing with a rotating globe. It started out as an animation using NIN music, but they didn't really license as Creative Commons as far as I could tell, so I redid it using music that did have CC BY licence. The music is from ccMixter.org by basematic and it's called La Madeline Au Truffe (composed by Jeris).

The world is split apart then brought back together again by doves – symbols of peace.

Puff Ball Derby – Stomp

Roger — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:14:58 +0000

Saw a puff ball in the open grass during Thanksgiving, then kids were playing with tricycle when an idea came to mind… this was the result.

Running over dried puff ball by Kensey and Roger with ccMixter.org music: "Come up for Air" CC BY SackJo22

Also help Kensey with editing her "Bird Eater" video. A drama with horror, emotion, and wizardry.

Triathlon Basics – What is a Triathlon

Roger — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:34:02 +0000

1 minute animation on what a triathlon is, about transitions, on distances, and why people do them. Drawings and animation by Roger Bindl with ccMixter.org music "Purple Nurple" CC BY AlexBeroza.

Nadcomm Update

Roger — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:30:00 +0000

I moved Nadcomm to my hosted service a while back and still in progress of converting to WordPress and updating. This is an updated video showing bits and pieces from the museum with a brief on Don House… they guy that made it all possible and continues to preserve the history.

One day I'll work on it some more, but if anyone knows of a place for some of the Nadcomm equipment let me know. I believe Don is still looking for permanent exhibit.

Aesop’s Fables – The Ant and the Chrysalis

Roger — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:47:08 +0000

Experimenting with ways to present Aesop's Fables… straight and to the point (like this), interpreted (like The Lion and Three Bulls), crazy and humorous, or what?

ILLUSIONAL

Roger — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:40:05 +0000

Video of photo collages from collection created for FAADAYS… A daily story on getting stranded on Mars.

To ccMixter.org music (CC BY) "Orc March" by basematic.