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This Is a Generic Millennial Ad from Dissolve on Vimeo.

This Is a Generic Millennial Ad, created with And/Or studio, shows how easy it is to appeal to anyone born between 1980 and 2000. The good news? Thanks to social media, it's easy to connect with this influential audience. The bad news? They hate spending money on things. (Except for maybe avocados.)

See and license the clips used at dissolve.com/millennial

To publish or broadcast this video, contact [email protected], or tweet us at @dissolve. Media outlet? Grab the media kit at http://bit.ly/GenMillAd

Want to work with an agency that really *does* get millennials? Hit up and-or.co!

Aotearoa - New Zealand from Ludovic Gibert on Vimeo.

We spent 3 weeks in New Zealand for our honeymoon. Of the South Island to the island from the north. 4559km trip through Christchurch, Akaroa, Lake Tekapo, Te Anau, Wanaka, Fox Glacier, Punakaiki, Kaiteriteri, Wellington, Tongariro, Taupo, Whangamata, Auckland. We found fantastic landscapes, beautiful people and lakes with amazing colors. Website : ludovicgibert.com Camera : Canon 5D Mak II with Magic Lantern RAW Lens : Sigma Art 50mm f/1.4, Canon 100mm f/2.8 Drone : Dji Phantom 3 Edit & Grading : DaVinci Resolve Compositing : After Effects Music : Ben Howard - Esmerelda

Pulse (4K) from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Song by Tony Anderson: “The Way Home" (Licensed through The Music Bed: musicbed.com/) Follow me: mikeolbinski.com / twitter.com/mikeolbinski / facebook.com/mikeolbinskiphotography / instagram.com/mikeolbinski

For quite a few years now I've been wanting to do something different with my time-lapse films. I love color. Storms are full of color. The blues, the greens, the warm oranges and reds at sunset. The colors are sometimes what make a simple storm into something extra special.

But black and white speaks to my soul. I love it. There is something when you remove the color that lets you truly see the textures, movement and emotion of a storm.

And then you hear a song. I had asked my buddy Jay Worsley (vimeo.com/jayworsley) if he had heard anything lately that might rock for a black and white storm film, and he linked me to Tony Anderson's "The Way Home." The moment I heard it, I knew that was the song. My recent films have a frantic pace to them and people occasionally tell me they'd love to see the footage in a much slower speed. I already knew that going with the monochrome style sorta demanded something more solemn and poetic...and the song was perfect for that.

I also went with a much wider aspect ratio than I've ever done before. I feel like it actually feels like it brings you in closer to the action, almost like you were standing right there with me.

I held myself back for a long time in doing this project because I wasn't very knowledgable about using tools like Premiere Pro to color grade footage, and all I thought was that I'd have to re-render all my clips as black and white before doing the film. And that's a lot of work. But the past few years have brought me tons of experience in Premiere Pro, plus help from my buddy Jay, and I figured out how to do it all there and without a ton of effort.

The film is made up of some of my favorite clips from the past few years. A mix of the monsoon and supercell plains chasing. I'm so inspired by the songs I choose for these videos. Kerry Muzzey, Tony Anderson. Their songs are so powerful and moving and the stories they tell themselves are amazing. I went with clips that felt right with each beat of the song and while I usually try to tell a story with these films, I mostly decided to let the music be that here.

Thanks to Tony Anderson for such an incredible piece of music, and to Jay for pointing it out to me. And also to my friend and fellow time-lapser, Brian Miner (see him on Vimeo: vimeo.com/bdmphoto), who did some B&W work this past fall and reminded me of what I've wanted to do for so long now.

I hope you enjoy this! The creative juices were flowing and I also have some serious withdrawals from chasing storms. I HAD to work on something to hold me over until spring gets here. Only around four months to go before I hit the road to chase supercells and tornadoes in April, May and June!

I have a couple of tornado chasing tours going this spring, if you are interested in checking those out, here you go: mikeolbinski.com/plains-chase/

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Captured with a Canon 5DSR, 5D3, 11-24mm, 16-35, 35mm, 50mm and 135mm. Processed using Lightroom, LR Timelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro

Alone in Vestfirðir (Westfjords Iceland) from Jonathan J Scott on Vimeo.

The Westfjords (Icelandic: Vestfirðir) is the name of a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast of Greenland. It is connected to the rest of Iceland by a 7-km-wide isthmus between Gilsfjörður and Bitrufjörður. The Westfjords are very mountainous; the coastline is heavily indented by dozens of fjords surrounded by steep hills. I spent a few weeks traveling through the Westfjords region in late summer 2016. I was blown away with its stunning beauty along with it sense of solitude, (The Westfjords are very sparsely populated with a total population of 7,380). Being able to drive for hours or walk for days without seeing others was a strange but wondrous feeling. A truly unspoiled wilderness that is all too rare in this modern age.

The Dark Island from Nicholas Buer on Vimeo.

This film was shot over 11 nights in March on La Palma, Canary Islands.

La Palma is often called ‘Europes’ Hawaii’ as it has all the ingredients for a perfect night sky cocktail; altitude, dry air and a lack of light pollution. These elements when combined make for a stunning night sky. Because of it’s clean air and clear skies many of the worlds top observatories have facilities on top of the island.

The main goal of this film was to capture the Milky Way rising from the horizon at a low angle across the sky. There are two main factors that affect the position of the Milky Way; latitude and time of year.

Latitude is your distance either North or South from the Earth’s equator. In the Northern Hemisphere the closer you are to the equator the higher the central core of the Milky Way will rise into the sky. La Palma is positioned at 28˚ North, which is a good latitude to photograph the central core of the Milky Way.

Time of year affects the angle in which the Milky Ways appears in the sky. The general consensus is that the Milky Way season starts in March and ends in October. In March the angle in which the Milky Way rises in the Northern Hemisphere is at its’ most acute. As Spring turns into Summer the Milky Ways angle increases tilting until it is upright through the months of June to August, then falls away back on itself slightly through September to November until the core disappears from view through the Winter months.

To achieve the correct angle I had to visit as early as possible in the season and with the new Moon phase of March being the week of the 6th the plan was set. You would think that with La Palma being at a latitude that is on par with Northern Africa the conditions would be favourable any time of the year, but with altitude and the trade winds blowing in, this was not the case.

I was hiking with a heavy pack back at altitude through very high winds, it was possibly the toughest conditions I have ever encountered in my time shooting astrophotography. But funnily enough it was not the wind, altitude or the cold that was the hardest part, the real test was having the endurance to wait out in these conditions for the Milky Way to rise which happens in March at around 3am. It is safe to say that after 11 consecutive nights of hiking from dusk and shooting until dawn I was a little broken, but adventure only truly starts when you are faced with challenges, when you overcome them, you remember these moments with far more clarity over anything else.

To view more of my work please visit: nicholasbuer.com

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Mark Robbins | Modern CSS and interactive email | CSS Day 2016 from Web Conferences Amsterdam on Vimeo.

Email has often been overlooked as simplistic, outdated and limited but with modern webkit based email clients accounting for over 60% of opens the possibilities have really opened up. The new age of email is a fully interactive experience based in modern CSS (with a solid fallback for Outlook).

Some of the things we've been seeing in recent emails include;

- Tabbed layouts - Image galleries - Multiple pages - Price calculations - Analytics on interactions - Games - Live content - 3D CSS

We'll look over the code behind these whilst covering;

- A brief overview of current CSS support in email clients - Detecting interaction with CSS - Basic interactions - The Checkbox Hack - Advanced interactions - Introduction to Punched Card Coding

Slides: codepen.io/M_J_Robbins/full/MeeMew About Mark: twitter.com/M_J_Robbins

More about CSS Day: cssday.nl or twitter.com/cssdayconf Receive updates in your inbox: cssday.nl/subscribe

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Aziz Ansari is the first-ever South Asian actor to be nominated for a lead Emmy

Amidst all the revelations that came from Thursday’s 2016 Emmy Award nominations, Aziz Ansari managed one particularly historic achievement. The comedian is the first ever South Asian American actor nominated for a lead role in a TV series, earning a bid for Master of None. While the Emmys continue to be more diverse than the Oscars, the most egregious Emmy snub was a big equality failure.

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