He once washed dishes full time in a trailer park. Now he uploads videos that break five million views in under three weeks. But when Casey Neistat isn’t leaping into a sinkhole in Oman or stealing his own bike on the streets of NYC, he’s busy working in this obsessively organised, fully functional, bare-bones 80sqm studio.
A few simple camera moves can make your low-budget film look like a Hollywood feature. And thanks to a heavy steel flywheel at its core, the Polly Dolly ensures smooth tracking and dolly shots with just a single finger’s push.
Billed as the “lowest-tech accessory” for the iPhone 4, the limited edition Love Box lets you record both sides of a conversation through the use of a simple sliding mirror, without the need for a special app or any post-production.
Rip Curl and TimeSlice Films filmed surfers riding real waves with 30 GoPro HD cameras and created an effect very similar to the Bullet Time sequences in The Matrix. It’s jaw droppingly awesome.
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Surely there must be some budding smartphone auteur out there who needs to invest deeply in the feature-length film they’re shooting on their iPhone 4. For anyone else, Zacuto’s Z-Grip iPhone Cinema Kit might be a bit excessive.
