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This is my epic climbing movie of 2006. On the weekends we used to drive up to LaFayette, Georgia from Atlanta. We would make big fires at night, and climb V-fun sandstone boulders during the day.
We also used to go caving in Pettyjohns Cave at the bottom of Pigeon Mountain. It’s a damn shame they paved that road.
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From sending photos of office supplies attacking people to zefrank, to /b/tards on 4chan drawing stick figures finding ways to get cake on the opposite end of a void, to designers creating quick posters based on the theme of ‘Empty‘ for WordIt, people are participating in creative acts everyday online in these ad-hoc (unorganized), spontaneous and collaborative games.
But there is no ONE place to go to find this kind of play occurring. Enter website x, a playground for the internets. A place to show off your creativity, a place to laugh and contemplate deep meanings behind submissions. A viral cesspool of creativity where truly inventive ideas crawl onto the shores of existence.
In the spirit of the site itself I am asking my friends and friends of friends to help me pick a name for the site. Also, if it fails I can blame you. :)
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If it is not a trend yet, it soon will be.. Or I am starting it. Vertical video, or portrait video is on the rise for a few reasons.
People have quicker and better access to record and upload video these days but there are no restrictions to holding your camera a certain way. Many people end up with portrait videos and are forced to upload them this way. This trend is happening because of a design flaw. Vimeo and Facebook both allow portrait video without the ugly resizing or black bars.
It is ironic in a hipster kind of way. Video is always landscape. It’s time to break free. Regardless of how our bodies evolved with eyes next to each other.
With the technological advances in video screen technology, lots of ads and posters are now displayed digitally on screens that are oriented vertically (in portrait). It makes sense that designers would play with this new space. Check out this concept from Fulton Beer.
Compositionally speaking there are reasons to film and display something in portrait.
Keep the videos short, a few seconds. Any more than that and your eyes will no longer be game. Think of it as a slightly moving poster a la the moving portrait paintings Harry Potter, or a photograph where the clouds are moving ever so slowly.
Edit: Vertical video can also be called “Tallscreen.” – Via Kyle Duba, (Henchmedia.com had nothing to do with the thought process surrounding the making of the thinking about this idea.)
Edit #2: When I see more vertical videos I will post them using the #tallscreen hashtag on Twitter.
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