To be fair, this is a "Travel Portland" feature, trying to get people from outside to come there to visit. In that case, it works spectacularly well, because it reminded me of everything that I loved about Portland while I was there. The people wanting to push for more creative-class types to move to Portland, though, need a completely different video: may I recommend the complete set of the British comedy "The Young Ones" as a starting point?

I thought the same thing. From what I understand, the film was shot using stop-motion photography, which works best with lighted moving objects. So cars are best for this type of photography.

Ungag my soul. The music is puke inducing and the city is made to look like a section of Manhattan.

The impression I was left with is Portland as an illuminated ant colony on crack.

Yes Tim! You nailed it!

I think it's one of the best productions I've seen. The music is intended to follow video elements, not call attention to itself solely. No puke induced here. It works well. Outstanding video FX and direction/shot selection. It captures many highlights of Portland without being throttled by an agenda. Many, many hours of time exposure shows tremendous dedication to the production. This, in fact, is what I consider "creative," and rather unique, unfortunately. Excellent job, UNCAGE THE SOUL. I had not heard of you before now.

I thought it was well done. It reminded me of the life giving blood keeping something alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbk1Kmki5sg

I then think of the powers that be wanting to have road diets and reverting to bicycles. A recipe to kill the lifeblood.

There is a similar piece promoting the State of Oregon by the same production company.

That video, titled Finding Oregon, can be accessed at:
http://vimeo.com/32852978

-ob

Remember this? Koyaanisqatsi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFBijDU8PpE

Early use of long format time exposure in a commercial production. Still holds up well. Have to break out the Glass now.

The video reminded me that when traffic is moving that getting around Portland by car is quick and easy. Portland is a relatively compact city. And, when I think about it, the views from the various bridges, whether Markum, going North, or Freemont, going West, are some of the best. Even going West on the Morrison flows you into the city center in a pleasing manner.

And, yes, I'll confess that on, say, a beautiful sunny Sunday, I've driven around the city just to take in some of the sights and explore.

Simple pleasures...

Going by car, which 90% of us do on a regular basis is convenient.

Of course, a video like this reminds us, Portlanders, of the beauty, even if we sometimes take it for granted.

Seeing how others see our landscape and cityscape is a good thing.

As to the style, I suppose that is to convey vitality via movement & color.

Come visit, love it, and stay... (that's where the discussion starts).

We all want a successful Portland!

I've seen a couple of videos from this guy at the Banff Mountain Film Fest. Last year if I remember correctly was a pretty decent film about caving. This year it was a strange film called TreeVerse...

http://ascendingthegiants.com/homepage/treeverse.html

Reminding me oddly of the old Saturday Night Live commercial spoofs, and a bit of Monty Python tongue-in-cheek, he filmed a couple guys "traversing" through the trees around a hillside field presumably somewhere in the Willamette Valley. Taking something like 5 days, and complete with the cliche six-pack of beer at the base of the destination tree, they moved from tree to tree with zip lines, ascenders, and even portaledges, with the landowner occasionally showing up on her ATV for an attaboy. The distance was a remarkable couple hundred yards, in a pretty mundane location.

Of course it wasn't a spoof. It was a bit surreal.

Being a local boy, he was much ballyhooed by the audience.

I didn't get it.