I recorded this interview with Joe from CNET just last week, some practical know-how about portable cinema, check it out...

http://www.cnet.com.au/a-beginners-guide-to-smartphone-cinema-339336092.htm

Love the look of your ol' fashioned family films shot on 8mm film? Check out what the guys at the Lomography Shop have found for us all to enjoy... a LomoKinoscope (together with a LomoKino) simply slides around your phone, and by turning the crank handle you'll digitize good old film-style movies via the video record function on your phone! (Apparently if even adds the clicking sounds of the shutter)



To see the full package, follow this link to the lomography shop page and check out this uber cool bit of kit for any iPhone or smartphone!

http://australia.shop.lomography.com/lomokino-smart-phone-holder?utm_source=www&utm_medium=shopnews&utm_content=lomokinosmartphoneholder&utm_campaign=lomokinosmartphoneholder

This one's simply amazing, I'm still trying to figure it out. This lens attachment will allow you to create a 360 degree, panoramic & virtual interactive video, you must watch the sample videos to see what it can do. Thanks again to the guys at Photo JoJo for finding this gem!



Buy the The Dot iPhone Panorama Lens at the Photojojo Store!

Want to improve your family films over the festive season? Check out my top 6 tips for snapping on your cell phone, to help you make some mobile movie magic to impress your family & friends!

Check this one... an aluminium case complete with very retro trio dial of lenses, featuring  Fisheye, Wide Angle and Telephoto lenses. You can order it from the good folks at PhotoJojo, or check out the photos and write up here...



Buy the The iPhone Lens Dial at the Photojojo Store!

Well, sort of! It was such an awesome experience to be asked to present at the inaugural TEDx Newy at Newcastle's Civic Playhouse Theatre on Saturday. I delivered my idea based around 'I threw away my camera and became a filmmaker', and had lots of fun with the audience as we went down a little time trip on my cooky creative teenage years and then an exploration into serendipity that brought me to pocket filmmaking.

It doesn't matter how many times I play Mankind is no Island - it seems people are constantly amazed at what that little film did and how simply it was produced. Even when I recall the story of the making of that film, it sounds like an out-of-body experience to me... 2008 seems so long ago now!

I finished my presentation with a sneek-peek at the DSLR lens adapter plate for iPhone... and yes... mine is currently in a FedEx bag inbound - very excited!

Ok - this one you must see....
Simply stunning use of 30 GoPro cameras used to film Rip Curl's Mirage shoot in Fiji, giving a slo-mo 3D experience that has to be seen to be believed.

I can't believe our little short 'Mankind is no Island' is still traveling the festival circuit globally, 3 years after we filmed it on a very tired Nokia N95. For those keen to know a little behind-the-scenes on this one, we shot just over 1200 words on signs around the streets of Sydney and NY... then blue-toothed them to my MacBook, then cut them in Final Cut Pro to the amazing sound score by John Roy.

I can still remember Shane writing up lists of nouns, verbs, adjectives and us sitting around a table with blank stares, trying to fashion some kind of script out of the random assortment of words we'd filmed.

It started to come together with a line in the middle of the film, then gradually, day by day, the other lines came to us and the story (as you see it now) took shape. It was a painful creative extraction, but so worth it.

By the way, for those of you super keen to spot it, there's several shots throughout when i'm shooting signs in windows, and you can actually see our reflection holding the Nokia... further proof (for the doubters out there) that this was genuinely filmed on a mobile phone only.

This film won 'Best Film' and 'People's Choice' at Tropfest NY in 2008, then scored an IF Award for 'Best Short Documentary' in 2009 along with numerous other gongs at film festivals both in Australia and overseas. It's been used in colleges, universities, film schools and even exams I'm told!

For old time's sake...

For the 3rd year running, Tropfest's Telstra Mobile Masterpieces is back. In Trop's 20th Anniversary year, the traditional balmy sunday in Sydney's Domain will be expanded to feature 3 days of filmic action.

I'm keen to see how many people are using the new iPhone 4S - with HD video capacity - to shoot their entry? If you need some inspiration, here's a short I shot on my iPhone3 2 years ago... it's titled 'Design Crimes'... enjoy!