Stephen Dirkes is a film maker and composer from Toronto, Canada. Currently residing in NYC, Stephen’s creative interests lay in New Media Art, VJing and Art Films.
Archive for Stephen Dirkes
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Shooting with Zylight Z90
Recently worked on set with photographer, Tal Shpantzer, shooting in a wide variety of environments, on a Canon 5d with 2 Zylight Z90 led lights.
Zylights were used shooting a scale model paper NYC city block. Size and temperature were important on the scale model paper set. The lights were mounted on both a small [...]
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Bogen Manfrotto Tripod Showcase
The Manfrotto 503HDV, 535K kit contains the 503HDV Manfrotto 503 Series Pro Fluid Head, the Manfrotto MPRO 535 Carbon Fiber 2-Stage Video Tripod, the Manfrotto 520BALL and the MBAG100P.
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The Making of Bjork’s 3D Wanderlust
Video: Curious as to exactly how they shot Bjork’s new 3-D music video for “Wanderlust”, I spoke with Damijan Saccio, co-founder of UVPhactory the post production company for the project. From the initial creative brief from director’s “Encyclopedia Pictura” to production in Long Island City at Matthew Barney’s studio and the the challenges of 3-D post, Damijan walks us through the the production process step-by-step.
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Ohm VJ Controller from Livid Instruments
Video: VJ gear guru Jay Smith, from Livid Instruments, came down to Scribemedia to show us his babies, Livid Instruments vj controller “Ohm” with “Union” VJ software.
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Lo-Rez = Good for Me
Mino flipvideo from Scribe Media on Vimeo.
I just took a “Mini” Flipvideo from Pure Digital Technologies home from scribemedia.org. I shot a bit of the Metro trip and several buildings in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
This camera is great! Great for me, but not for some.
I like to create heavily processed “roto-scoped” looking video as well as grainy, [...] -
China’s Synthetic Times
Zhang Ga discusses “Synthetic Times,” the largest New Media exhibition ever mounted in China.
