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Dancin’ honey bee using dance to communicate

August 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Did you know that honey bees are able to communicate with each other using dance? I’d never seen a bee dance, but I’ve found a cool video clip showing a dancin’ bee in action. If you can embrace the ‘education video’ aesthetic of this video below, you are in for a real treat. In just [...]

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Category: Our living planet

First impressions of Beijing – Live from the highway

July 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Arrived in Beijing from London Heathrow this morning. Only been here a few hours but I’ve had time to post my first video journals to YouTube: (Updated links thanks to Katie) Stepping off the plane…

Straight into a Coca-Cola billboard…
Reporting from a [...]

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Vibewire Videos 2

October 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

In the spirit of Open Source, I present to you – Creating a video brief, part one – the initial questionnaire. As a communication problem (there’s a lot that could be communicated in a limited amount of time), gathering the basic information on the video subject before you begin is a good place to start. [...]

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Category: Tim's Projects

Vibewire Videos

October 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tom from Vibewire has asked me to help him with a project he’s had in mind for Vibewire – communicating the value of various Vibewire projects through video. The best case scenario is that there will be a mini video (between 30-60 seconds) for each of the following programs: Reelife Short Film Festival the sQuareOne [...]

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Teenage Affluenza – World Vision video

July 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Poor Erin, stuck with a 1GB ipod. Poor Red, he only has a PlayStation 2. A new video examines some of the real challenges middle class Aussie kids face. Congratulations to World Vision for their great work on this video. It’s worth the full five minutes.

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Category: Peace between people