Bizarre card question taken from the party game “Would You Rather.”

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com

Walter Sobchak "Over the Line" - The Big Lebowski Motivational Poster

The line.  You’re over it.

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com

Market Street, San Francisco.
Filmed just four days before
the Great Earthquake
leveled the city in 1906.

Music by Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com

Michael McVey, Skiffleboom.com

I find these refrigerator word magnets incredibly addicting:

I thought this up one early April evening, after playing with the magnets for hours.  I enlisted HARDCORE AWESOME PHOTOGRAPHER Seth Wood to shoot the magnet animation, using a trusty Canon 5D Mark II.   We used individual photographs shot over three separate nights — over 2,880 photos in total. I edited in Final Cut Pro at 24 frames per second.

We wanted to keep the lighting consistent during the shoot, to get the smoothest motion.    Since my kitchen has many windows, a daytime kitchen takeover to set up cameras and lighting would have been too much effort.  It was easier for us to shoot at night, from 10PM to 4:30AM (followed by 3 hours sleep… and then our day jobs!).

Music by Chris Thomas King and Colin Linden - ”John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto’.”

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com

Big thick juicy dimensional signs by Sign-A-Rama Cambridge — Cambridge, MA.

Sign GENIUS Neal Cutler demonstrates what a sucker you are for not owning a Sign-A-Rama Cambridge A-FRAME.

Edited + soundtrack music.  Shot with HD Flip + FCP.  You can order an A-Frame and other badass signage at SignARama-Cambridge.com

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com 

A trip to see some Fleet Foxes with Mortimer Duckbrella + friends.  Orpheum Theatre, Boston MA – May 17, 2011, HD FLIP + FCP.  I stitched this video later that night.

The official Mykonos video is OUTSTANDING:

Such beautiful animation.
The door slammed loud and rose up a cloud of dust on us
Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up.

And you will go to Mykonos
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

Pallid animals in the snow-tipped pines I find
hatching from the seed of your orphaned mind, all night

And you will go to Mykonos
With a vision of a gentle coast
And a sun to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made

Brother you don’t need to turn me away
I was waiting down at the ancient gate

You’ll go
Wherever you go today
You’ll go today

I remember how they took you down
As the winter turned the meadow brown

You’ll go
Wherever you go today
You’ll go today

When I’m walking brother don’t you forget
It ain’t often that you’ll ever find a friend

You’ll go
Wherever you go today…

http://vimeo.com/23945506

Austra’s “Lost It” + some home movies.  Off their debut album “Feel It Break”.
Austra will be playing Brighton Music Hall on May 25, 2011 (Boston MA).

About the band (Domino Record Co.)

Boston is a wonderful city with an amazing cultural heart.  Here is my edit of the beautifully danced Bella Figura from the Boston Ballet, May 7, 2011 at the Boston Opera House (BostonBallet.org).  The performance ran from April 28 — May 8, 2011 and received excellent notices.  The evening program also featured The Second Detail, choreographed by William Forsythe, and Part I, II, III, choreographed by Helen Pickett.

This video features the opening of Bella Figura, a one act ballet by Choreographer Jiří Kylián.

Dance Talent: Rie Ichikawa, Kathleen Breen Combes, Erica Cornejo, Sarah Wroth, Rachel Cossar, Altan Dugaraa, Yury Yanowsky, James Whiteside, Sabi Varga.

Music: Lukas Foss, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessasndro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Torelli

Bella Figura‘s world premiere was October 12, 1995 at the Dans Theater, The Hague, Netherlands.

Boston Ballet is the first American company to present this work. The program also includes a Company premiere of William Forsythe’s The Second Detail and three works by Helen Pickett. Bella Figura showcases the world’s finest contemporary ballet on stage at The Boston Opera House, April 28 — May 8, 2011.

Boston Ballet
Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director
BostonBallet.org

Dancing magnetics by artist David Durlach of TechnoFrolics, featured at 11 Miller Street during Somerville Open Studios, April 30, 2011, Somerville, MA.

Music: “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat.

Michael McVey
Skiffleboom.com

Torrid Love Affair with the Somerville Open Studios, from TheInfamousDance.com