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1. "Clap Your Brains Off" Mexican Droste Videoclip
3 months ago
This video uses a mathematical formula based upon an image Escher did (The Print Gallery), known in these days as the "Droste Effect".
This is my first videoclip as a Director, and it was made entirely using a Digital Reflex Camera, Canon's Mark III which captures up to 115 continuous pictures, at 10 fps.
As this was really low budget video, it was made possible thanks to the help of lots and lots of friends.
This video was "inspired" by the amazing pictures of Sebastian Perez Duarte (I mean that as an euphemism). I just wanted to add movement to those kind of images.
All of the image process was made in my home computer, thank's to Pisco Bandito/Josh Sommers' tutorials, and Bill Hornes code. A friend of mine, Chema "The Mecatronic", helped me automate all of the process.
This is the result of almost 6 months of work.
Soon I'll post the making off, hope you enjoy it.
This is the video of a band called "No Somos Machos Pero Somos Muchos" (NSM PSM) and they're about to release their first album. This is their first single "Clap your brains off"
CHECK OUT THE MAKING OF at vimeo.com/1762877
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  • Adam Docker 3 months ago
    Jesus!! You sure your eyes haven't turned square!! This is a lot of work!
    Well done. Lots of great ideas.
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  • OneInThree 3 months ago
    lots of great ideas here. really liked the top shots, we wanted to get more of them, but we only had a twelve hour shoot day.

    have a look at our video using the same effect:
    vimeo.com/1654232
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  • gerard ros 3 months ago
    enhorabuena, me gustaron mucho los recursos del video, los efectos están chidos! mucha suerte
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  • diego arredondo 3 months ago
    Felicidadez Franky!
    muy buena chamba.
    Ya quiero ver el making off. jaja!
    abrazos
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  • alvy 3 months ago
    ME PARECE MUY CORRECTO ES POSITIVO Y ESTA DE POOPOKA FELICIDADES !!!
    SEE YA COCODRILO.
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  • Jorge Orozco 3 months ago
    Ese el Frankie... Muchas felicidades!!!! que bueno que ya vemos a la luz del video... Opino lo mismo... queremos el maiking of!!!!!!!
    Saludos
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  • emmanu rom 3 months ago
    se ve IN-CRE-Í-BLE.
    ya está en mtv?
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  • Mariana Sanchez 3 months ago
    Hijole mano... me cai que que cosa mas maravillosa es ud... cuanto trabajo, cuanto amor, cuantos detalles... mus mas sinceros respetos

    es ud un artista
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  • Frederic Vercammen 3 months ago
    it makes me dizzy ;-)
  • Frank Beltrán 3 months ago
    great!!! thet was part of the idea... and you should see it on a big screen...
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  • Josh Sommers 3 months ago
    Is the code that you used publicly available? I'd love to compare Bill's Droste Formula to my own to see how he achieved it compared to mine.
  • Frank Beltrán 3 months ago
    Yes, it's actually under the GNU Public License...
    You'd just have to ask him. He's a member of the Escher's Droste Print Gallery forum, That's where I contacted him.
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  • Ricardo 3 months ago
    Muchas felicidades, Frank! Etselente video y propuesta visual.

    Un gran trabajo.
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  • Jared Foster plus 3 months ago
    Reminds me of a modern Busby Berkeley film. Very edgy and really cool to watch.
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  • rchrd b 3 months ago
    uuuoooorales frank, muy buen trabajo man, felicidades, te mando un abraxo!!!
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  • CHEMI 3 months ago
    Muchas felicidades. Es un trabajazo de verdad.

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  • Andorra DoNacimento 3 months ago
    Ese Chavoooo... Al fin! Valio la pena la espera y el trabajo, está super chido y eso que se quedaron algunas ideas afuera. Felicidades men!
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  • Tino Remero 3 months ago
    the breaking part was coo, flares with the clothes changing haha, way coo

    good video
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  • MáNDARO 3 months ago
    Mi querido Frank...esta pocamadre!! da gusto ver que cristalizen las ideas, sobretodo las buenas, te mando un gran abrazo, muchas felicidades, suerte!! y nos vemos pronto!!
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  • Robert Matthews 3 months ago
    masterful :)
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  • consuelo Saldaña 3 months ago
    eeeeyyyyyyy, muy bien una ves más, besitosss y por todas, eres el iiiidolo
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  • godino 3 months ago
    Amazing,very creative work!
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  • Le PôLe 3 months ago
    amazing, i 'd just want to get a "stage" to learn more...
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  • Thomas Charbit 3 months ago
    que vídeo tan buena !! ahora espero el making of ;-) felicidades !
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  • andy scott 3 months ago
    amazing!
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  • Status Cats 3 months ago
    Ouf !!!
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  • Artemio 3 months ago
    Muy bueno!!!
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  • DDLM's. 3 months ago
    ya casi me impresiona
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  • Hector Ferniza 3 months ago
    Excelente!!!
    Deberían tratar de grabarlo en HD, o al menos, en una resolución mayor que la actual.
  • Frank Beltrán 3 months ago
    de hecho está en una resolución mucho mayor, porque cada foto es de 3888 pixeles, nada más que este transfer para internet no está en alta... Y me falta investigar un poco de compresiones y esas cosas... Pero bueno, gracias por los comentarios
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  • wecanbehonest.com 3 months ago
    me encanto la explicación :)
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  • Enrique Casarrubios 3 months ago
    Que puedo decir? Estoy impresionado. Es el primer video que veo por aquí. Os aseguro que vere muchos mas.
    Gran Trabajo, Y muy buenas ideas puestas en marcha!
    Espero ver ese making off! sin duda será muy interesante ;)
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  • Mark 3 months ago
    Excelente trabajo. Una inspiracion para el resto de nosotros.
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  • Francisco 2 months ago
    dude esto es lo mas chido que e visto en mi vida. Que musica usaron. La grabaron de vinylr's (asi se escribe?)
    Suerte!
  • Frank Beltrán 2 months ago
    Este es un videoclip de una banda de México que está por sacar su disco. Se llaman "No Somos Machos Pero Somos Muchos" (NSM PSM) y la canción es "Clap your brains off"
    Te mando su página myspace.com/nosomosmachos
    Están por actualizarla... nada más estamos terminando de comprimir unos videos en mejor calidad para poderlos subir ahí...
    Saludos y gracias por los comentarios... si puedes rolar el link, te lo agradecería... Y no sé si has visto que se puede descargar en alta... por si tienen la paciencia de bajar 74 megas, pues bienvenido... para eso lo hice...
  • Francisco 2 months ago
    Claro !! de echo ya lo vaje xD. Me encanto tanto. Deveria de estar en un cinema o algo asi. Pero bueno uno hase lo que se puede no.
    _Perdon escribo bien mal_
    Saludos desde monterrey :D
  • Frank Beltrán 2 months ago
    Ya está el making of... échale un vistazo, ojalá te guste...
    vimeo.com/1762877
  • Francisco 2 months ago
    Wow esta genial :D
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  • Gerardo Flores Torres 2 months ago
    Que bien. Me encanta encontrar talento Mexicano en la web. Chequen el mio!
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  • Leonardo Florentino 2 months ago
    wow, buenisimo!!!
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  • Saerguio 2 months ago
    enhorabuena, un excelente trabajo!!
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  • Joe Kamimura 2 months ago
    this is soo great!! i love the music! DAMN that was a journey! good job!
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  • Erika Martinez 2 months ago
    Me encanto!!! el efecto fue explotado de una manera exepcional e increiblemente creativa. FELICIDADES!!!

    El making the video es genial me hizo reir mucho aunque me espantaron con lo del rato. Por cierto como grabaron el techo del metro???
  • Frank Beltrán 2 months ago
    Pues había un puente en esa estación que pasaba por arriba... Eso fue todo, Saludos.
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  • Hey, Frank I really loved your video...I watched the making and in it you said you used java...what did you use it for? was it to automate the droste effect?
  • Frank Beltrán 2 months ago
    Actually, the code that I recieved from Bill was programmed in java, we (well the mecatronic) just automated the whole process... Usually, droste effect is done in mathmap through gimp, with that java code, you dont need nothing but java... You just take some parameters and information from photoshop or gimp just as the image center, the inner radius lenght and the outer radius lenght. With that information, you process it all in java later on.
  • Cool, I'm gonna be making a music video for a band soon and I wanted a small part of it to be droste.I'm going to be shooting in hdv and the droste part might be 30 seconds long...24framesx30seconds=a crazy amount of work if I were to do it the gimp way...
    .do you plan on making a tutorial or something based around the java code because the would really save me a lot of time.
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  • Gabriel Pontones 2 months ago
    Q grande Frank! Esta de poca madre el video e interesantisimo el making of. Felicidades de corazon y sigue inspirandonos con tu trabajo. La proxima, mandame tambien mensaje y me tienes con bici de sea!
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  • EDcase 2 months ago
    Great!!!!
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  • Glenn Marshall 1 month ago
    magic!
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  • Wolfgang Gaebler plus 25 days ago
    That's professional! Encantado mucho!
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  • Nowawes 25 days ago
    excellent & stunning artwork! greetings from germany!
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  • ganchito 24 days ago
    Dios mio. Vaya viaje. Me encanta muchisimo
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  • eastcoastcrown 17 days ago
    unique and beautiful. I love it.
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  • L. Locke 15 hours ago
    I don't know who the girl in red is, but she makes tilting a picture frame look like more fun than anything I've ever done in my life.
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