ILM showing off again.. Although roughly a third of “The Avengers” is set in New York City precious little was actually filmed there. ILM crew members photographed 7-miles of city streets from a variety of heights and at different times of day totaling 250,000 images. The crew then digitally recreated roughly 20 square blocks of Read MoreRead More
Thrash Lab’s “Empty America” timelapse travel series takes you to New York City. All the bridge and tunnel people have been digitally sent home and Manhattan has been wiped empty! Penn Station, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, The Met and Fifth Avenue have never looked so vacant.Read More
New York: Night and Day is a combination of non-traditional video time-lapse and animation. I filmed day and night scenes from around New York City and combined them back into single sequences using rotoscoping techniques. The piece explores the relationships between night and day, by compositing together scenes shot in the same location over a Read MoreRead More
1933 saw King Kong scale the Chrysler building and a Film where New York City was completely destroyed by an unexplained earthquake and tsunami. This film was thought to be completely missing until an Italian dub surfaced in 1981. The film is also a departure form the disaster fare we have today in that the Read MoreRead More
Returning to as grass roots as you can get, Director/actor Ed Burns offers some tips on how he shot a film with the Canon 5d in New York City for just nine grand.Read More
For the hard-to-shop-for-filmmaker, VandM in an exclusive partnership with the Museum of the City of New York is releasing a collection of photographic prints by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Shot early in his career before he turned to filmmaking, these glimpses into New York City life in the late 40s show the beginnings of a genius at work.Read More
