Heart of Stone - HD from Andrew Kornylak on Vimeo.
activism to preserve and protect climbing areas in the Southeast US.
"...a masterpiece that will help climbers and access for years to come." - Dawson Wheeler, co-owner of Rock/Creek Outfitters
"The best climbing film I have seen yet!" - Kurt Smith
"...a great example of positive, constructive film-making and a clear indicator of where web-based climbing movies will be heading: high quality and large format." - Peter Beal, from Mountains and Water Blog
Our day with Brad McLeod of the Southeast Climbers Coalition was a great example of serendipity. Josh and I had hit the road with Brad one day to visit about a half-dozen closed crags around Alabama, just to get some far shots and chat with him about the project. While we set up a shot of the crags outside Steele, Alabama, Brad mentioned that a couple days ago he had chanced on a For Sale sign in a nearby yard. He had the realtor's number in his phone. I suggested we call her up, knowing full well that the landowners in these parts have been stonewalling against climbing here for years. Well, a miracle happened that day - the realtor came out with a friendly landowner who offered to show us some of the cliffs above his property. We rolled footage on the whole encounter - a classic look at how the Southern sausage is made. That is the scene that opens the film.
Heart of Stone also features some unusual techniques. Most of the footage came from a Sony XDCAM EX1 HS camera, with some b-roll with a Canon HV1. The film also contains stills and stillmotion clips, which are 4K "ultra-HD" moving pictures which I shot entirely on a Nikon D3 still camera. See more stillmotion examples at my Vimeo site. Suprisingly the stillmotion blended well with the HD video footage and stills. I edited everything using Final Cut Pro.
For my part, I visited the "Images of Us" barber shop in East Atlanta Village. The shop, moved from its original downtown location during the recent economic downturn, is known, as most neighborhood barber shops are, as a place not only to get a cut, but to hang out, connect with friends, and sometimes, talk politics. The owner was giving cut discounts, viewing the Inauguration on a screen in the shop, along with with home-cooked chili, donuts and coffee.
My assistants Sharif Hassan and John Kelso and I were immediately welcomed into the shop when we described our plans to take portraits in the shop during the day. "When you come in here, you're like family," told us one stylist. Drawing inspiration from the color and posing of the viral "Hope" Obama image by graphic artist Shepard Fairey, we set up a barber chair in the corner of the shop and invited freshly-cut patrons to sit for a portrait and short interview about their thoughts on the Inauguration.
There was a lot of emotion in the shop as the president was sworn in. The chili and cornbread was awesome. Sharif will be going back for a razor cut, and maybe a bald fade if he doesn't chicken out.
You can check out photos of the day from other Aurora photographers here:
http://www.auroraphotos.com/
good work
(07.02.10 @ 09:45 PM)
I can't express.outstanding photography......
(11.03.10 @ 03:36 AM)