if you haven’t heard of first descents here’s a great intro. they are a non profit founded by professional kayaker brad ludden to teach kids with cancer how to kayak and get outside. brad’s a personal friend of mine + one helluva person + we’ve been lucky enough  to work together in montana + have [...]

it’s coming together + we’ve got dates + location for our non-profit project this year. we’ll be up in halifax, nova scotia in august putting this together so stay tuned. in case you’ve missed it this far, myself + staff are donating a week’s worth of energy to a non-profit in need of creative firepower. [...]

i’ve been working on this idea for the past year + though it’s taken a beating lately with the economy + budgets being what they are i’m really happy with it’s success. i talked about the idea of including an optional line item for clients interested in carbon offset way back when. basically it’s a [...]

image by alex dejong
here’s a monday pick-me-up that really hit me. don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. the guy’s in this piece via wired have more vision than so many seeing people i know. the creativity involved here is fantastic +i’m into hearing about the various workflows that alex dejong [...]

one of my favorite aspects of visual media, be it still images, video or hybrid clips, is the ability to go back through everything much further down the road. sometimes this it’s tough to look at everything other times it’s pure joy. regardless, it’s a great way to keep pushing your style forward + chasing [...]

here’s what a bit of sun can inspire after a long day of work on location. interesting story how this came together so take a stab at it (at least the technical part) + i’ll get the perfect in-house designed summer t-shirt out to the closest explanation that comes in.

speed sequence from heathkorvola on Vimeo.

the revolution is picking up speed. after a recent mumblings about the new iphone 3GS video capabilities + third party accessories it’s gone + come together. kenny mosher + crew have put together an entire music video on the iphone + thrown in a behind the scenes via the canon 5D II for fun. get [...]

“as an artist, nabokov was, according to ramachandran’s research, eight times more likely to have synesthesia than someone who is not an artist..”
more via John Colapinto in The New Yorker. it’s all about perception.

ok so here’s an update from our uber talented video assist + typing fiend at jdk. ross has brought up answers that i wondered about outloud via an earlier post, specifically we’re taking aim at why/how the shutter on canon 5D II’s hd video program controls light + secondly why it stops at 1/30th.
Hey Heath! [...]