The friends behind the YouTube channel Dumb Drum have released their latest low-budget recreation: a sweded shot-for-shot remake of the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer that’s both funny and surprisingly accurate on the details.
“Sweded films” are amateur shot-for-shot recreations of famous movies (or in this case, trailers). The term was coined in […]. petapixel.com
Filmmaker and YouTuber Potato Jet recently teamed up with first person view (FPV) racing drone pilot Paul Nurkkala to try something kind of crazy: they strapped Potato Jet’s RED cinema camera to a custom-built, high-speed octa-copter and took it for a spin… and a flip… and a few more maneuvers besides. It’s worth pointing out […] petapixel.com »
2020-10-09 20:01
The folks at Night Crew Labs just created something awesome. In March, they strapped a Sony a7S and an external recorder to a weather balloon, and launched it up to about 78,000 feet. From there, they captured what they believe to be the “first ever” video of the Aurora Borealis from the stratosphere. It’s safe […] petapixel.com »
2017-05-09 22:14
The Drone is an upcoming horror movie about a serial killer… who transfers his mind into a DJI camera drone. You can watch the new 2-minute trailer above. Filmmaker Jordan Rubin first released a parody trailer back in 2015 about a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter that takes on an evil and bloodthirsty mind of its […]
In 1966, photographer Jay Maisel spent $102,000 buying a 6-floor, 35,000-square-foot, 72-room building in New York City that would become his home and studio for the next half-century. In 2015, he sold the building for $55 million.