The Streets Have their own Language

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 Guy Sharett takes it to the streets! And by “it” we mean teaching. Hebrew. Giving Hebrew lessons while sitting in a cafe or passing down a poster, his students inhale the language together with the urban culture of the Tel-Aviv metropolis. Guy spent several years in the far east, and even wrote a book about Thailand, [...]
NoCamels’ Video Contest – Win 5000 NIS

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 NoCamels.com, a division of The Asper institute at Communications School, IDC is proud to present the 2009 ‘Israeli innovation video competition’. Directors, writers, creators! We know that you have so much to show and tell the world about Israel and we welcome you to participate in a unique competition where you get to show the world [...]
City-cast, an urban media experience

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 City-cast is an urban media experience that connects people with the personal history of their city and neighborhood. We propose a user-generated content system using a combined approach including (a) custom cellphone recording and uploading, (b) content editing and narration, (c) web, gallery, and situated cellphone listening, (d) online voting, and (e) traditional and podcast [...]
Liad Agmon’s sleep of the just

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 Liad Agmon is 32 and he likes to sleep 8 hours a day, which is difficult now he has become VP, new services of Sears Holdings. Liad leads quite a life for an IT entrepreneur, and Delver, the social search engine he’ve sold to Sears is his 2nd success, the first being an anti-virus solution to [...]
Gaza-Sderot Life in Spite Everything

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3D Me

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His Video Elegance

His Video Elegance

 Oren’s Lavie video for “Her Morning Elegance” is breaking virality charts
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Hey there, Eatliz!

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 Everybody dreams to work at the major news networks, to be sent to the frontline like the CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, and bring the hottest stories. Now there are tools that might turn you to the next “news hero”, by reporting what is happening next to your home. “iamnews” is one of those tools, as [...]
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You are now watching: His Video Elegance

Oren Lavie is an Israeli Musician / Producer / Director.  He did several plays off-Broadway and Of-West End, produced a music album and then distributed it through his own label “Quarter Past Wonderful”.

The video for his song “Her Morning Elegance” is climbing,  slow but steady, into the hall of fame of viral videos. Beautiful and unique, matching the moody morning song, the video was created by people who worked for fracture of their usual costs. It took 4 weeks to create an animated storyboard and only 2 days of live shooting to produce the 3225 all-stills frames for the stop motion.

More info on Oren’s Myspace.

One Response to “His Video Elegance”

  1. Coolness Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    This should get an award! I am stunned by the awesomeness!! :)

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