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  • Sara Paxton Reel – The Beautiful Life: TBL Cast Interviews

    Sara Paxton Reel – The Beautiful Life: TBL Cast Interviews

    Posted on: Monday, November 9th, 2009
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    All off Sara’s most alluring and goofy moments.

    Overview Clip Reel – The Beautiful Life: TBL Cast Interviews

    Overview Clip Reel – The Beautiful Life: TBL Cast Interviews

    Posted on: Monday, November 9th, 2009
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    The cast of The Beautiful Life in all their — well — beautiful glory.

    Veer: Rian Hughes – Design, Tea, and Biscuits

    Veer: Rian Hughes – Design, Tea, and Biscuits

    Posted on: Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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    The Art Directors Club in New York was recently the venue for an evening of genteel design discussion and civilized refreshment with British illustrator, graphic designer, comics artist and typographer Rian Hughes. Client Veer needed a video for their website as a way of featuring the typography work of Hughes (which Veer licenses) and reached out to BCP to do this multicam shoot.

    We Did It: Gossip Girl Confidential

    We Did It: Gossip Girl Confidential

    Posted on: Friday, February 8th, 2008
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    We shot the cast of Gossip Girl in character in order to send a wink to already crazed fans, but more importantly to let newer viewers know that it wasn’t too late to leap feet first into the show and to get intimate with the personalities inhabiting the show’s world.

    Q&A: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act – Core77 Offsite Series

    Q&A: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act – Core77 Offsite Series

    Posted on: Thursday, November 15th, 2007
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    Video 6 of 6 Running Time 10 Minutes

    We shot a ton of material during the question and answer portion of Core77′s Offsite event, Design, Wit, and the Creative Act, but we’ve put together a tasty sampler of some of the best.

    We produced, shot a

    We Did It: Core77′s Offsite Series – Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    We Did It: Core77′s Offsite Series – Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Posted on: Thursday, November 15th, 2007
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    Business and design leaders are increasingly aware that some of the most successful goods and services are those that elicit emotion. Trading in this spectrum poses some unique challenges to the designer, however, since the creative process of gene

    Steven Heller | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Steven Heller | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Posted on: Sunday, November 11th, 2007
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    Steven heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts. He recently co-founded (with Alice Twemlow) the MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. H

    Paul Budnitz | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Paul Budnitz | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Posted on: Sunday, November 11th, 2007
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    Paul Budnitz, has always had one foot in art and the other in technology. The son of a nuclear physicist and a social worker, Budnitz grew up in Berkeley, California, and began programming computers at an early age. By the age of 17 he was writing

    Kelly Dobson | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Kelly Dobson | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Posted on: Saturday, November 10th, 2007
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    Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling machine parts from one area of the yard to another. Later, studying medicine and art, Dobson became focused on alternative approach

    Tobias Wong | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Tobias Wong | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

    Posted on: Saturday, November 10th, 2007
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    Originally from Canada, Tobias Wong studied art at Cooper Union in New York City, where he graduated in sculpture. Veering across disciplines and materials, Wong has created an oeuvre that is immediately accessible, yet contentious. He pursues his

    Toys R Us Pitch Reel

    Toys R Us Pitch Reel

    Posted on: Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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    We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us.

    Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest: CFL Light Bulbs for School Kids

    Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest: CFL Light Bulbs for School Kids

    Posted on: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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    When Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest,” TH Radio’s Jacob Gordon suggested that we get in touch with Kenny Luna the man behind Mr. Luna’s Bright Idea.

    Patented High School Student Invention: Compost Hot Box – Sundance Channel

    Patented High School Student Invention: Compost Hot Box – Sundance Channel

    Posted on: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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    Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video shows off the simple yet amazing patented idea some NYC high school students had for a new kind of compost box. The spot was shot by George Spyros in 24p standard definition to mini DV tape using the Panasonic DVX camcorder.

    We Did It: Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest Shorts

    We Did It: Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest Shorts

    Posted on: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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    Sundance Channel invited folks to upload vids with their “big idea” for improving the state of the environment — and with $10k on the line for the winner. So, Sundance Channel invited Big City Pictures in partnership with the gang at TreeHugger to produce three sample videos for the contest.

    Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest: Global Warming Club

    Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest: Global Warming Club

    Posted on: Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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    Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video features the kids of the Lafayette Street School in Newark, New Jersey who were taught using curricula found on the Rainforest Alliance Learning Site. This spot was shot by George Spyros in 720p HD to P2 cards using the Panasonic HVX camera with b-roll overcranked for slow-motion at 48-frames-per-second coupled with Century Pro Fisheye Lens and lit entirely with 2 ft. 4 bank Kino Flo units articulated on c-stands.

    Matusalem Rum

    Matusalem Rum

    Posted on: Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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    We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us. Edited on Apple’s Final Cut Pro platform.

    Toy Fair Reel

    Toy Fair Reel

    Posted on: Monday, February 12th, 2007
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    We put together a reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids.

    BCP Tapped: Veer Rian Hughes Live Event at Art Directors Club NYC

    BCP Tapped: Veer Rian Hughes Live Event at Art Directors Club NYC

    Posted on: Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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    BCP will be doing a multicam shoot for Corbis-owned client Veer later this month. Titled An evening with Rian Hughes: Design, Tea, and Biscuits the live event will be held at the Art Director’s Club in New York City, a location with which we are intimately familiar having shot an offsite event for Core77.

    America’s Next Top Model Winner Cycle 7 CariDEE in The CW Lounge

    America’s Next Top Model Winner Cycle 7 CariDEE in The CW Lounge

    Posted on: Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
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    BCP produced, shot and edited the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 for The CW and Reitz Lange. DP Marcus Burnett shot winning fashion model CariDEE English in 24p using the Panasonic DVX100 in The CW Lounge (aka a room in the W Hotel in mid-town Manhattan). The judicious use of china balls did the trick to provide some soft, beauty lighting.

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    iPhone 4 SLR Lens Mount from Photojojo

    iPhone 4 SLR Lens Mount from Photojojo

    Until such time when a certain bleeding-edge technology provides shallow depth-of-field no longer dependent on the optics of large pieces of glass in a tube, you can immediately graft said glass tubiness onto your wee iPhone using Photojojo’s iPhone SLR Mount.

    Lytro Light Field Camera: Focus Photos After Shooting (Video)

    Lytro Light Field Camera: Focus Photos After Shooting (Video)

    Will this eventually allow for shallow depth-of-field without the need for large lenses full of pieces of glass? Tiny, smartphone lens images manipulated into focal lengths of various lenses. Obsoleting iPhone accessories like Olloclip and the SLR Mount.

    Newton: The First Physics Engine for After Effects (Video)

    Newton: The First Physics Engine for After Effects (Video)

    Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.

    DIY Digital Bike Lane Video Performance by Prague Artists

    DIY Digital Bike Lane Video Performance by Prague Artists

    Czech artists Vladimir Turner and Ondřej Mladý made a video performance on the streets of Prague mounting a pico projector to the bike handlebars to display a DIY digital bike lane.

    Dot: iPhone 4 360º Panoramic Lens System Video Capture Device

    Dot: iPhone 4 360º Panoramic Lens System Video Capture Device

    ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.

    Indiana Jones and 9 Other Modern Movies That Are Better in Black and White (Video)

    Indiana Jones and 9 Other Modern Movies That Are Better in Black and White (Video)

    Flavorwire has desaturated and uploaded 10 films that they claim provide a better viewing experience in black and white.

    Oona: iPhone 4 Mount System

    Oona: iPhone 4 Mount System

    The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.