SLACKLINERS at the 2012 OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, Germany

S L A C K L I N E R S from Neil Asher on Vimeo.

I’m sure these guys aren’t the best out there, but these Freestyle ‘Slackliners’ or ‘Trickliners certainly entertained the crowd at the OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, Germany last week.

Camera: Sony NEX-5D
Edit & Colour: Final Cut Pro X & Magic Bullet Looks
Music: “/\/\” by BL▲CK † CEILING (soundcloud.com/danocean)

From Wikipedia:
Freestyle slacklining (a.k.a. “rodeo slacklining”) is the art and practice of cultivating balance on a piece of rope or webbing draped slack between two anchor points, typically about 15 to 30 feet long and a couple feet off the ground in the center. This type of very “slack” slackline provides a wide array of opportunities for both swinging and static maneuvers. A freestyle slackline has no tension in it, while both traditional slacklines and tightropes are tensioned. This slackness in the rope or webbing allows it to swing at large amplitudes and adds a different dynamic. This form of slacklining first came into popularity in 1999, through a group of students from Colby College, in Waterville ME. It was first written about on a website called the “Vultures Peak Center for Freestyle and Rodeo Slackline Research” in 2004. The article “Old Revolution – New Recognition – 3-10-04″ describes these early developments in detail.

Oakwood Day Out

This is my ‘Stredit’ for the Vimeo Weekend Project, vimeo.com/blog/post:487

Of our day trip to Oakwood, a theme park in Wales, UK for my son’s 10th birthday.

Music licensed from the Vimeo Music store:
“That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos” by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com)

Shot using: Sony NEX-5, GoPro Hero HD
Edited with: Final Cut Express HD

A Stredit is a straight edit using all your clips in order you filmed them.
Official Rules for a video to be called a Stredit:
1. You must use every clip from your camera in some way (editing and trimming is allowed and encouraged)
2. Your clips must appear sequentially in the order you filmed them.
3. That’s it!

Creativity+Twitter=Job

Check out this video of how to land a job at an awesome agency.

Credits: Bas van de Poel & Daan van Dam
Music: James Brown – The Boss [Etienne Manuhuwa Edit]
wonderyears.nl / twitter.com/​wonderyears_

Any cats wanting some cream?

With only 11 days to go, my 3rd year BA(Hons) Design for Advertising students (Full Fat Creatives) at Swansea Metropolitan, have just launched a teaser viral for their final year show, which is being held at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea with a few tutor cameo’s thrown in for good measure.

The show is a culmination of 3 years hard graft, which I’m sure is the beginning of some very bright careers in Advertising. So if you’re looking for a creative graduate to help out in your studio this summer as an intern/work placement or permanent employee, then it’s certainly worth a trip down to Swansea this May. (Dates underneath)

Private View: 14.5.11  — 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Open to the Public: 15.5.11 – 21.5.11 — 10.00am – 5.00pm

Click this link for a sneak peak at their portfolios.

Hitler freaks out over Comic Sans MS

These viral’s just keep coming.