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Sarah Moll

Kathy Barrett

Dominic Weilminster

Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon is a Parisian filmmaker, an innovative "videographer" and creator of "Take Away Shows," a video podcast stemmed from the French online music site "La Blogotheque" he co-founded. Over the last 2 years he has made over 200 videos with diverse musicians across the world, including many popular musicians like REM, Arcade Fire, and Andrew Bird. Vincent's style is a departure from the mainstream commercial format of a music video, and his use of lo-fi technology blurs the line between creator and audience, capturing the intimacy, spontaneity, and energy of the musicians in impromptu settings. This more natural approach allows the audience to focus on the beauty of improvisation. With each project, Vincent tries to figure out "how to push a band in another situation and see what happens." He is "amazed how little time we spend thinking about how people create compared to how people make money from creations." He has challenged the idea of what a music video should be and has influenced many young filmmakers to take his same approach.

In addition to filming music, Vincent's latest projects include filming his travels, and documenting them in the same style as the Take Away Shows. He hopes his videography will inspire people to explore the world as he does.

Read more about him on his website: http://www.vincentmoon.com/about.php

See his filmography work: http://www.vincentmoon.com/list.php?cid=6

Visit the Takeaway Show website: http://www.blogotheque.net/

Chicago!

Last november, RNL sent me to Chicago to attend the annual Greenbuild conference.  As way of demonstrating that my reimbursables are valid, I put together the below presentation to justify the expenditure and really prove that I was in Chicago.  For real.

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Carl Hole
Sarah Moll
Michelle Richter

16th Street vs the Highline

This post is the content of our very first FA presentation, a powerpoint by Todd that examines urban spacemaking and how Denver's 16th Street Mall has held up over the years. For contrast, it is compared with the newly opened Highline Park in New York City. Different planning goals, program elements and physical qualities still yield similar urban experiences.

 

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Rachel Petro
Eric Watson
Nate Huyler

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Michelle Richter
Allison Beardmore-Nash
Craig Johnson

Videos from today's funday session -

How to Tie Your Shoes - a TED talk with Terry Moore

A Miniature of San Francisco - from Fast Company Design, follow the link to the videos in the article.

Way Back Home - Danny MacAskill

thanks to Carl for sharing.