Here at The Weird Box we work with a lot of textures. I recently took a trip to New York City and while adjusting my camera settings at various places noticed a plethora of interesting walking surfaces. Armed with my 5DmkII, I decided to try and capture a small sample of my travels.

When piecing the footage together, I wanted to convey the distance traveled while also keeping the video short. To accomplish this I decided cutting on motion would do the trick. Nothing too extravagant, just a simple walk cycle.

I toyed with the idea of adding music but in the end decided that keeping the authentic street sounds matches pace better than anything that I could come up with.

Footwork: A Journey in NYC from James Logan Gibke on Vimeo.

Of course, not all of my trip was spent shoe gazing. I'm still pouring over the other footage, so keep an eye out here for an update once it's finished!

The Weird Box and CE labs have been extraordinarily busy preparing for InfoComm 2012. It's been an arduous five-week journey, but we've just about wrapped up and can finally sigh a breath of relief! From conception to completion, this project has been a jubilant whirlwind. We would like to share with you our creative process and a sneak preview of what's to come!

Some people, I won't name names, at The Weird Box are known to geek out pretty hard about trend-setting technology. We held an event for side-by-side iPad testings just this morning! It's no surprise that we're pretty amped about CE labs newly launched MP75 - a high definition digital media player with GPIO push-button features. 

The Weird Box has been busy working on some new projects, one of them being cinemagraphs. (Watch for our post on that next week!) Between that and the private programming playlists looping through our television screens has us in the mood for some cinematic screening. And the rainy weekend forecast gives us the perfert opportunity to do just that!