Increase the artistic nature of your concert films

October 8th, 2009 : John Kary

The Designis.ms blog recently made a post showing the work of Vincent Moon and his work doing, “Take Away Shots,” where he films bands performing on-location. The style of filmmaking is very similar to that of Cinéma vérité, where what appears on screen is largely unaltered from how it occurred. The audio is usually captured […]

Sigur Ros post feature-length concert film on YouTube

March 10th, 2008 : John Kary

Sigur Ros have posted their feature-length concert film on YouTube for free viewing in its entirety. You can view the entire film here. (PS: It’s about 90-minutes long.)
Some might say, yay, great, free! But if you saw the HD trailer I talked about earlier, the YouTube video just can’t compete with […]

Grand Central phone service rocks

March 3rd, 2008 : John Kary

Start-up company Grand Central was bought-out by Google last year. You may have heard last week about how Google Gave All San Francisco Homeless a Free Voicemail through Grand Central. Well, Google recently opened the service as a private beta, and we were lucky enough to get in on it. So what […]

5 Reasons You Should be Using Flash Video

February 13th, 2008 : John Kary

The goal of every website is to provide content and services to its visitors. You probably look at your website daily from your computer to make sure it looks great. But not all web browsers display the web in the same way. Little nuances between browsers can sometimes make sites unusable.
Things get even more tricky […]

How concert films can make more money for musical artists

January 5th, 2008 : John Kary

While 2007 CD sales were down 14% from 2006, digital downloads were up 50%. Record labels continue to struggle to develop new distribution models that take advantage of the digital revolution.
Over the last year, fans have shown they are willing to sink money into digital intellectual property. The success of digital audio in […]