HBW in Motion

There are two reasons for this..

1) Have you noticed that that on a Wednesday Explore is full of shots prefixed by the letters HBW? No? Well I did.. Apparently it stands for Happy Bokeh Wednesday. And the shots are always lovely examples of gorgeous depth of field. So I thought I'd have a go but in traditional Steve style - I'd do it differently... So have a Happy Bokeh Wednesday one and all.

2) I also thought I'd throw another vid into the mix. And this time round I'm still frankly a bit disappointed. The upload went ok.. the original file is a 65Mb MP4. But the encoded version here seems really low quality. The audio is mono and low bit rate, which is a shame as it spoils the warmth and richness of Royksopp's fantastic tune. And the video encoding has made the fast moving lights go a bit blocky.. YouTube is fine quality for your novelty clips and humorous outtakes but if Flickr wants a bit more class the quality has to be a bit better than this... Oh... and the streaming still sucks... The whole point of this piece is the motion and the fluidity of the cuts... When it stops every two secs to rebuffer it spoils the experience...

So if you want to watch it properly, wait for it to download fully before playing!

Oh.. in case you're wondering.. The lights are off the new mixing desk in our new studio, where I've been spending far to much time lately... Soon I'll escape and make it back out with the camera... In fact, I'm not entirely sure where my camera is at the mo... hmmm....