If this doesn't make you celebrate life in it's most stripped down essence, i don't know what would. Seemingly meaningless things become quite meaningful when we can just slow down and take our time to understand and appreciate them.

8 Hours in Brooklyn from Next Level Pictures on Vimeo.

All footage was shot within an 8 hour span in Brooklyn, NYC. Several of these shots will be used in part w/ a series of spots we are directing/producing which will be released sometime in the near future.

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Shot on Rule Boston Camera's Phantom Flex camera.

Director/Cinematographer: Jonathan Bregel
Color Grade: Khalid Mohtaseb
Production NGAFers: Dan Selby, Jesse Korman, Chris Dowsett
Executive Producer: James Douglas
Production Company: Next Level Pictures

Song used: Skream - "Where you should be"
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Lenses used:
Duclos/Tokina 11-16 f2.8
Arri 150mm Master Prime T1.3

Special Thanks to:
Mike Sutton
Rule Boston Camera
E-Rock - Breaks Kru
Tyler Ginter

by Boolab

Pilot: 'Evolution' from boolab on Vimeo.

Something great to think about...



"Beauty is an adaptive effect which we extend and intensify in the creation and enjoyment of works of art and entertainment. The experience of beauty is one of the ways evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest, or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction."

"Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance."

"Human beings have a permanent, innate taste for virtuoso displays in the arts. We find beauty in something done well."

After watching the BBC's Atheism Tapes , one of the topics that grabbed my attention was what exactly it meant to be spiritual and if atheists could be. While i think the answer is definitely yes (depending on your definition of spirituality) i stumbled onto a book i am about to start reading. It is by the existentialist philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre and it's called Nausea.