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Guy travels the world and shoots 1 second of footage in each location (Video)

DatSucks August 4, 2011 66

‎3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films.

- Rick Mereki : Director, producer, additional camera and editing
- Tim White : DOP, producer, primary editing, sound
- Andrew Lees : Actor, mover, groover
- Music Recorded and mixed by Jake Phillips
- Assistance in titles and production design : Lee Gingold, Jason Milden, Rohan Newman


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66 Comments »

  1. Jalal Hameed Bhatti August 5, 2011 at 2:10 am -

    Amazing -never seen such an aesthetic and innovative composition before

  2. Shannon August 5, 2011 at 2:40 am -

    This is really awesome! I’ll bet you had fun in all of those amazing places.

  3. Jennifer August 5, 2011 at 4:59 am -

    That’s so cool. Well made too!

  4. Alana August 5, 2011 at 12:12 pm -

    Who is the man? He is amazingly attractive!

  5. Miguel August 5, 2011 at 12:46 pm -

    This is soo amazing, its so.. iono makes me want to go outside.

  6. JustaTool August 5, 2011 at 9:59 pm -

    By far the best video of 2011.

  7. Caroline Wilson August 5, 2011 at 11:53 pm -

    This is amazing. What is the song in the background?

    • Everybody August 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm -

      There is no song

  8. marco August 6, 2011 at 5:16 pm -

    Ben fatto, bel video complimenti!!!

  9. Kevin August 6, 2011 at 8:14 pm -

    Genius.

  10. caleb August 7, 2011 at 8:00 am -

    whats the song

  11. DatSucks August 7, 2011 at 10:24 am -

    All Music is composed and performed by Kelsey James and Music Recorded and is mixed by Jake Phillips

  12. caleb August 7, 2011 at 12:50 pm -

    thx

  13. alex August 8, 2011 at 12:21 am -

    cool concept but it’s making me nauseous

  14. chekira August 8, 2011 at 11:27 am -

    interesting and cool!

  15. zen August 8, 2011 at 9:17 pm -

    Cool…. who plays the music in this vid?

  16. Maria August 9, 2011 at 5:32 pm -

    Wow really amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

  17. Paula August 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm -

    Yeah seriously, who’s the guy?

  18. Ana Maria August 11, 2011 at 12:40 am -

    AMAZING!

  19. Caitlin Miclot August 12, 2011 at 12:53 am -

    Great Idea, gorgeous shots. Not to mention how easy yall 3 are on the eyes.

  20. Caitlin August 12, 2011 at 12:55 am -

    Great Idea, gorgeous shots. Not to mention how easy yall 3 are on the eyes.

  21. Kath August 12, 2011 at 10:39 am -

    Awesome idea! I want to do that too!

  22. Shelly August 12, 2011 at 11:30 pm -

    Amazing. Enough said.

  23. Franky August 15, 2011 at 8:58 pm -

    Tonnes of images of buenos aires…

  24. Let's Go Eat August 18, 2011 at 12:04 am -

    Wow! Good stuff right there…

  25. poi August 23, 2011 at 3:00 am -

    Must be nice to be rich and have your parents pay for this.

    • bms September 6, 2011 at 8:19 pm -

      …or you know, he could have paid for it.

  26. bob August 25, 2011 at 1:06 pm -

    He did not ‘shoot 1 second of film in each location’…

    • Monty August 30, 2011 at 9:23 pm -

      I’m glad someone else thought that was dumb to say.. It’s not one second.

  27. Alison R August 25, 2011 at 4:16 pm -

    What an awesome idea! Very neat.

  28. Manu August 26, 2011 at 2:23 am -

    So great! some pics from Argentina :) !

  29. Stephanie D August 26, 2011 at 7:08 am -

    what amazing amazing scenery.

  30. Zaid August 29, 2011 at 5:48 pm -

    Simply Brilliant!!!

  31. Monty August 30, 2011 at 9:22 pm -

    There are 3 guys, not just one.

  32. Xtreme August 31, 2011 at 12:30 am -

    Love the video!!!

  33. Alvs September 1, 2011 at 1:35 am -

    Given that the video is amazing, let me just say how sizzling hot the guy is. Wouldn’t mind travelling the world with him. Oooooh, think about a gazillion one second moments.

  34. tar September 1, 2011 at 2:48 am -

    There’s at least one transition between locales where he didn’t get the timing quite right and he appears to take two steps with the same foot, which was a little jarring. And sometimes it goes so fast that it’s dizzying. But I like the idea, and in general the final product is pretty amazing to watch.

    And yeah, the title of this article is misleading. Welcome to the Internet. I suppose next you’ll want to stun us all with the revelation that this type of project–clips of world travel edited together showing the subject seemingly engaged in a continuous action as the scene changes around him, set to music–has already been done (“Where the Hell is Matt?”, anyone?)

    • anonymous36 September 5, 2011 at 7:43 am -

      agreed. along with the whole shooting more than a second of each location part

  35. Caitlin September 1, 2011 at 6:05 am -

    That was AWESOME! Kudos!

  36. Ciara September 1, 2011 at 1:04 pm -

    That was brilliant!!!

  37. yule September 2, 2011 at 1:23 am -

    amazing! one-of-a-kind!

  38. Elissa September 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm -

    That is so cool! But he re-used some cities :P . He is so HOT btw! lol just thought i’d put that out there!

  39. chelsea September 2, 2011 at 6:31 pm -

    this is amazing! best video i have seen yet. plus the guy in it isnt too bad :) hah

  40. Thomas September 2, 2011 at 6:47 pm -

    He cheated. The end bit was more than one second. Just sayin’.

  41. Powalla September 3, 2011 at 5:58 am -

    The title said 1 sec. of footage in each country. The description said 11 countries. This video was longer than 11 seconds…

  42. Phil-Ahesh September 3, 2011 at 4:01 pm -

    I love to see everyone gawk over a trustfund baby and his camera.

    • nora September 7, 2011 at 7:33 am -

      LMAO

  43. sam September 4, 2011 at 12:05 am -

    what is the song thats playing?

  44. sunshine September 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm -

    Why are some of you all such haters? This was really cool and the guys are beautiful!! Very creative and a trip of a lifetime I am sure! Can I come next time?

  45. Lina September 4, 2011 at 9:36 pm -

    Wow! What a good looking guy. Like, beyond stunning. I’d love to date him and have his children. What’s his name? Anyone?

    Also, nice video.

  46. Murphy September 5, 2011 at 5:04 am -

    So why was there a terabyte of footage? Also what cameras did you use?

  47. anonymous36 September 5, 2011 at 7:42 am -

    Its cool how you did this. must have taken a long time. However, you were not as consistent as you had hoped you were. There were times when the timing was off. At one point (I don’t remember what time it was) You were walking forward and then you were all of a sudden you were further behind and off to the side, then the next sec after that you were further to the other side but closer. Closer than the step I mentioned earlier before you looked as though you were further than before. Only way possible for that is if your video appears to show you skipping. You are already taking long enough strides as is.

  48. Drake September 6, 2011 at 5:53 pm -

    Very cool. I bet this was fun, yet stressful to make. Don’t listen to the haters.

  49. Matt September 6, 2011 at 11:12 pm -

    What a smug tw*t. A grand conceit and also obviously photoshopped some of those frames. (Look for his shadow!) Wonder what this be attached to as a viral ad soon. I mean come on!

    PS. That type of music takes roughly 3 minutes to compose, 10 minutes to record for a moderate piano player and 30 minutes to mix

  50. yaikz September 7, 2011 at 4:54 pm -

    shouldn’t that be: 2 people travelling the world…

  51. LilyRose September 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm -

    stupid and pointless

  52. marc September 8, 2011 at 6:26 am -

    nowhere near as interesting as the guy who takes a photo of himself every day for 12 years

  53. Jessie September 8, 2011 at 10:21 am -

    must be nice to be rich.

  54. Bradon September 10, 2011 at 9:20 pm -

    if you watch this and listen to the song human by the killers at 30 seconds into the song it goes perfectly with the video

  55. chelsea September 10, 2011 at 9:52 pm -

    love it

  56. SamyAdel9 September 11, 2011 at 7:44 pm -

    incredible, but I wonder: how could this possible be near 1 terabyte?

  57. Lydia September 12, 2011 at 2:22 am -

    Def submit this to the Nomading Film Festival! http://www.nomadingfilmfest.com/Nomading_Film_Fest/Nomading_Film_Fest_Front_Page.html