I assisted the film maker Grace LaDoja on her short documentary for Mother London, looking at the effect of sports on the lives of teenagers. The short focused on the different backgrounds of teenagers and their coaches and how sport can energise and improve many aspects of a young person’s life.

We saw the impact that inspirational teachers can have on a community- spurring on large groups of teenagers to get involved; constantly challenging themselves, winning championships and learning. Giving direction and discipline. We saw what good facilities can do, and heard so many positive stories.

The documentary is to be used as internal research by Mother.

Grace’s Blog: amazinggracelondon.blogspot.com
Mother London: www.motherlondon.com

I’ve put together some of the video work I did with Uber for Eastman. Our brief was to shoot the wind turbines they run at their site in the Lake District, so that Eastman can use the footage to promote their use of sustainable energy. There is more information about the project on my portfolio website, and in my original blog post here: Link.

Here’s a couple of short clips I shot while helping out at this years onedotzero_adventures in motion festival at the BFI Southbank in September.

The first is the “graffonic: virtual spraypaint” installation- which let visitors draw on a wall electronically, and also gave an audio reaction to each movement.

The second is a timelapse of the festival identity- a massive projection outside the BFI, which could be interacted with using a Nokia phone, and which drew in online talk about the festival. Amazing work, and one of the parts of the festival which drew most discussion.

You can see the full highlights of the festival on the onedotzero vimeo page, here: http://www.vimeo.com/7541175

“onedotzero_adventures in motion is acclaimed by artists, audiences and creative industry alike for being the world leader in audio-visual arts and entertainments at the forefront of a new festival experience which combines collaborative music, film and live performance, and playful interactivity, digital arts and culture.”

-onedotzero.com

The yearly onedotzero_adventures in motion festival just finished at the BFI Southbank, and I have been there over the course of the five days helping with the documentation of the event- photographing and filming the various interactive installations, workshops, and night time bar events.

There was much stunning work on display- from interactive installations to short films. The H5 retrospective and UK premiere of their new short film “Logorama”, the wavelength screening programme and interactive identity projected in massive scale on the National Theatre were all highlights for me. Every night also had an event at the BFI bar- live AV sets, breakdancers, and DJs all had their night.

More on the events of the festival on the onedotzero blog and vimeo channel:

http://www.onedotzero.com/blog

http://www.vimeo.com/onedotzero

The full video “Six Seconds from ‘69” is now online. I’ve uploaded it to my vimeo account (iammartin on vimeo) and there is full info on the project and some screenshots in the projects section of this site- located here: Six Seconds from ‘69. Have a look!

A wee timelapse video created by Jackie Wu (geckokid.deviantart.com) and myself last night- much riskiness in setting the camera and tripod up, and praying that it wouldn’t fall out of the window in the night. Be sure to check out his site- some killer work on there.

Bit of a sketch for a current project- I’m handling the art direction for a series of videos for a local nightclub. Its amazing how easily we can forget that the Earth is spinning so fast!

Soundtrack is This Will Destroy You – “Villa Del Refugio”; I thought it suited quite well.