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An extreme way to get a room upgrade or a sign that I just work too hard. First night of my holiday in Dubai after shooting a documentary here and this is my nightmare...

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DUSTIN LEWIS

August 17, 2008 03:54 PM

Great job Philip! I have had the same problem, not being able to sleep because of the video bug! I really enjoyed this one.

Dave Morrison

August 17, 2008 03:58 PM

Ah Philip, a kindred spirit! I loved Koyaanisqatsi and Philip Glass and have been wanting to pay tribute to them ever since. You've done a beautiful job (as usual) and you're pissing me off.....you're TOO damn productive! ;-) Well done, young man.

Dethel J. Mateo

August 17, 2008 04:06 PM

My kind of footage....

Amazing time lapse and great work as usual.

now, go back out here and pump out some more :)

Rob Morgenstern

August 17, 2008 04:09 PM

Because of your movies I'm sleepless as well. Bougth the ex1 two month ago and can't stop filming now - you never mentioned that shooting on the EX is going to be addictive... The pictures are beautiful as always ;-) do you use a special "night"timelapse picture profile? everything looks so bright and colorful...

Eva Sturm

August 17, 2008 06:58 PM

Philip, you're the master, the nightshots are awsome. Makes me sleepless as well...

It's amazing, that the EX1 can cope with these extreme contrast of the construction site lighting. I think, this is one of the outstanding properties of this cam. BTW: Yesterday I read an article in the german Magazine "Kameramann", which compared the SONY F900 with some other small HD-cams: EX1 turned out to be the only one, which showed a comparable contrast behavior to the F900(!).

Willem Van den Broeck

August 17, 2008 07:18 PM

wow that was great

Philip Bloom

August 17, 2008 10:39 PM

i only did a few shots to knock together to show the manager so I could get an upgrade to sea view. it worked!

I mean that Philip Glasss is great and all but his music IS very loud at 3AM.

Mark Weiss

August 18, 2008 02:14 AM

Looks like you didn't get ANY sleep at all that night--but the results were well worth it. A marvelous masterpiece, one of my favorites!

Mark Dawson

August 18, 2008 02:47 AM

Hi Phil, It made me laugh alot as I know how Dubai is...! but a nice little short, with a great sense of humour! top timelapse cinematograpghy....think you will put the camera down this week? Mark

Henry Peplow

August 18, 2008 05:07 AM

Bloom... I loved that! It made me smile all the way through. There's a clever thing you've done with different shutter speeds on the timelapse to give different feelings - blurred on the car lights, sharp on some cars later in daylight, blurs on the concrete lorry.

We all look forward to the timelapse seaview....

Shiv Kumar

August 18, 2008 09:53 AM

Phil,

I liked the concept of this one, with you opening and closing the door and stuff. Every hotel manager in Dubai is going to hold his breadth each time he sees someone walking in with a camera from here on in!

So what's the rest of Dubai like? I spent 2 years there before I moved to the US. Those guys can put highways miles lonf, over night with trees and grass and all. I can just imagine how much it has grown with all that construction boom.

Shiv Kumar

August 18, 2008 03:39 PM

Phil,

Love the new edit with the door open/close sequence and the way you've handled the audio and music.

Also like the ending with the "Room with a View". Nice touch.

Philip Bloom

August 18, 2008 03:44 PM

This is actually my first short without Letus in ages AND all filmed from one spot (apart from the door and last shot)

Charles Frisby

August 18, 2008 07:09 PM

It made me think of an ant hill... little ants running all over busy at work. I totally laughed out loud when the door shut and re-opened.

Great color.

Peg Futrell

August 18, 2008 09:15 PM

The opening shots made me think of a modern dance, with the cranes as the dancers. Frenetic dancing, frantic pace, enter stage left the moon, and then the sun, and then the rest of the world. All join on stage for the finale, before the door is pulled shut, and there is calm at last.

It's seems like an abstract painting where everyone sees something different. But we all agree on the quality of the shots. I enjoy that the hues of the world vary throughout the period of time. It's your special touch to capture and render this as a humorous gem of a "nightmare".

SLEEPIN GIANT MEDIA

September 15, 2008 12:57 AM

Very, very nice. Really enjoyed the moon shots. Always a pleasure.

Grench

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Equipment: Litepanels Flood miller DS20 Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX

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For the past 20 years I have been following my passion as a career and it has taken me around the world to places I have felt privileged to have seen.

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