This is a video art piece I shot and edited for “BYOB Perth” (Bring Your Own Beamer) a video projection night to share video art with others. I wanted to see how hard it would be to match two separate shots placed side by side as well as experiment with super slow motion post production effects.

It was shot with a canon 7D with a tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens using a glidecam 400HD.

To get the shots I needed to match together I would have to do several takes from each side of the walkway of each subject walking until I had a shot I felt I could work with. But in reality that was harder then it seemed as it was a working train station and near a busy night area there was always people walking around. As any unintentional background extras would ruin the split screen timing effect. I just had to wait until it was clear and go for a take. In the end I only ended up with one good shot from each side. Luckily that was all I needed.

Music: Ulrich Schnauss – A Song About Hope

So lately I’ve been meeting some awesome people doing great creative work around perth and have had the opportunity to work along side some cool people. Luo Qi from FASHiON HEiR is a talented fashion photographer from perth and puts together some great shoots with his team. Brodie Butler another great photographer and HDSLR enthusiast like myself. Brodie shot all the footage on his 5D MKII mostly with a glidecam 4000HD and then passed it on to me for the edit. I’m pretty happy with the results though I feel I could of tightened up some of the shots towards the end. As with most creative projects deadlines get the better of us. If I didn’t have several more edits to get done I would like to fine tune it all but I’m still really happy with it. It was a pretty cut and dry edit synced to music no post production apart from the colour grade, which just quietly I think looks great. Really enjoyed putting in the warm tone and feeling.

FASHiON HEiR behind the scene video, photographed by Luo Qi, styled by Thilini Alwis, video by: Brodie Butler, edited by Luke Brooks; deisgners: POLITIX & Aime Cristie; with Mccallion Nina, Sophia Louise Margaret Rutherford, Emma Ghizzo, Blake Garvey, Troy Coward.

Music: Copperhead – When We Do
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Voting is now closed, sorry. The winner was French style but my final result looked more like a regular mo.

Coffee from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

While testing out my new camera I put together this short film on making a coffee. Shot with a Canon 7D with a 18 – 135mm f3.5 lens and a 55-200mm lens was used just for the close up of the coffee pour. Edited quickly in premiere and rendered with out any colour grading. Enjoy.

A very interesting use of conductive body ink, to remake the track “Ready for The Weekend” by Calvin Harris. Using the conductive body ink 15 bikini-clad ladies are turned into a giant Arduino-powered synth capable of playing track, though Max/MSP and Ableton Live. Its like a giant human powerdered midi controller and seems to work quite well.

For more info see: http://www.bluebanana-contest.com (I hope you can read german though)

About Page (Google Translated)

Press Page (Google Translated)

The brochure can be seen below (click to enlarge images)

British graffiti artist Banksy has opened his first official exhibition in New York.

Set inside a fake pet store, works such as a robotic monkey and fish-fingers swimming in a goldfish bowl aim to question the relationship between human beings and animals.

Check out the video here from the bbc

via Digg

Water Colour 2.0 from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.

I was invited to submit my video “Water Colour” into a German video artists festival, but unfortunately could not get permission to use the music that I had chosen for the original piece. I then decided it would be a good opportunity to create some relaxing music to accompany the video piece. Here is my new and improved Water Colour video with music and visuals by me, Luke Brooks. (music contains samples from ccmixter, Antony Raijekov – Night Watch)

Astonishing LED, Laser, and Light Photography from Hack N Mod on Vimeo.

If you’ve ever attemped long exposure photography or “light writing” in any way shape or form, then you’ll understand how truly dedicated these people are to the art form. Check out the video and there website for more stunning photos.

We’ve seen some projects featuring how to draw with light using your camera’s exposure settings, but nothing compares to this.  This group goes by the name of Light Art Performance Photography and they use lasers, LEDs, illuminated body suits, sparklers and just about anything else which emits light to construct these incredible works of art.  We’ve compiled the video above to feature their work and the high-res version is worth watching as well.

Via Hack N Mod

Light Art Performance Online Gallery

In order to film it the camera was placed to look through one side of the clear arcylic box as I dropped different colour food dies into the water. I did multiple takes with different colour 1 red, 1 blue, 1 green and one take with many colours together. I then did a rough edit layering the videos together and put it all to some music.

I shot the video in 1080i and have uploaded a 720p version to vimeo, in order to watch it in HD you’ll have to head on over to the vimeo site. (links below)

The set up:

Water Colour from Luke Brooks on Vimeo.