THE DREAM IN ACTION

I recently came across one of the more talented videographers I’ve ever seen on the web. Jon Rawlinson is a filmmaker, cinematographer and editor based in Vancouver, Canada. He’s been doing documentaries and corporate video production for about 7 years and has done projects in over 30 countries (awesome). I only know Jon through his work and his website, but what I do know is that his fans, who comment heavily on his Vimeo page, really envy his life. After I spent 20 minutes or so watching his older videos I was right there with them, this guy is livin’ the dream. This is a perfect example of, ‘do what you love’ and you’ll put the dream in action.

Check out this video of the ‘Celebration of Light’ in the UK:

Jon’s amazing ability to capture people, scenes, and light and his unique ability to piece that work together with the right music has recently gained him a lot of publicity. Most recently, Jon filmed this video in Japan of the Kuroshio Sea, the worlds 2nd largest aquarium.

Facts from Jon’s Blog: The main tank called the “Kuroshio Sea” holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters.  Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.

Jon says on his blog that the Kuroshio Sea video is his first ever “viral” video. I’d say. These are some pretty phenomenal statistics.

Current stats 8/4:

Youtube:  1,252,976 views, 2,690 comments, 16,651 favorites, 6,429 ratings
Vimeo:  647,000 views, 3,650 likes, 504 comments
Break:  604,393 views
Digg:  3365 diggs

Kuroshio Sea – Music by Barcelona

I briefly mentioned Jon’s ability to place the right music with the right video and the Kuroshio Sea video is a perfect example. In fact the impact that this video has had on Barcelona, the band who’s music is featured in this film, is significant enough that they decided to post a very candid and complimentary video response on Youtube. Not only does there post speak very highly of Jon’s work, their decision to respond in this fashion speaks very well to their “getting it” factor. Barcelona is clearly on the right social websites and has now shown that they know how to use them to thank the community and connect with the folks that matter, their fans.

Barcelona’s video response

This video (below) is just an added treat. It reminds me a ton of the Fifty People, One Question videos that I’m sure you saw. In this video Jon asks an eclectic group of people one question, “what makes you happy?” Enjoy!