Singapore Recap

After several months have passed, I always like to review my edits to see how I feel about them. I start to think about how I would've edited them differently or if there's another video that I could make with the footage, etc. The process also gives me a chance to appreciate the edits as a viewer, because my head isn't quite so wrapped up in how I assembled them.

My Singapore edits were an undeniably memorable side project from this year and I still get a kick out of watching them. So, with everything about the experience now in context I thought it would be fun to recap the posts from Singapore 2010. Simply click any of the banners to watch the videos, read about the locations, and share in what was one of my major highlights from earlier this year.

Clumsy Claus Stills

After reviewing a few of my past Christmas projects, I thought it would be cool to share a few of the stills from Clumsy Claus (2001). I can still remember sharing this project with friends and family almost a decade ago, and also remember how I was just getting into stop motion animation over the course of that year. I haven't really followed up with many more animations since (outside of film school anyway) but revisiting things like this makes me think about giving it another shot.

Fremont Street Cutouts

Having been to Las Vegas and the famous Fremont Street Experience several times before, I thought it would be cool to play around with these photos that I shot on our 2010 road trip to California.

Manipulating the cutout filter in Photoshop and boosting the color and vibrancy of some of my select images, I created stylized prints of some popular Fremont Street scenes. For my own sake, this was an easy way to separate and re-imagine a series of images that I seem to shoot over and over again each time I visit.

This evening in early September was a general blur between casinos, bars, and souvenir shops. It was the first evening of rest and celebration after two days of driving from Canada, and we both seemed anxious to kick back. Inadvertently ending up in Vegas on the long weekend, the crowds actually made the short stop seem more iconic of a classic Vegas trip. In an alcohol and neon fueled hypnosis, the hours flew by.

For more, here's a video I made from a previous visit to Fremont Street and my complete photo set of downtown Las Vegas from 2010.