As a reward for your voting today, we are sharing an awesome drone video from last month's Coffin Races created by Nick Wood. Wood is a local videographer (and sometimes photographer) that creates short videos for companies for promotional use. With this video, Wood hoped to, "give a visual representation of the type of community our city has and how so many of our local business help support one another. " To create the video, Wood first got permission from the city to use his registered DJI Phantom 3 drone and then flew it all over the place during the coffin races. If you saw a white shape floating in the sky that day, it was probably him. Click through to watch his video!
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VIDEO: CASEY NEISTAT IN DENTON
Viral video hit maker, Casey Neistat, visited UNT as part of the Fine Art Series this past Wednesday evening. Neistat dropped knowledge on various aspects of life. We wrote at length about his visit on a post earlier this week. In the 24 hours since his speech in Denton, Neistat has already posted a video of his doings on his Youtube channel. Read on to check out that video and more.
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FRIDAY VIDEO THREESOME: MAY 22ND
Friday's can sometimes be the doldrums at work. If you work in an office, you're probably sneaking in some Reddit or Youtube time (or your personal favorite time waster) in between spreadsheets and .psd's. Heck, maybe you work retail and have to do all of that on your mobile device. Maybe you're actually getting work done (bless you, hard worker). We're gonna focus on the lazy ones, though. Here are three local videos for your watching pleasure. A video from The Vision Beautiful with a stark rendition of Patsy Cline's "Strange," by Claire Morales and Jena Pyle, an awesome new video from Kaela Sinclair, and Denton Stage's newest video featuring Konklin playing at Denton Skate Works complete with kids on scooters and some sweet sunshine.
Read MoreVIDEO: WDDI DOES ARTS AND JAZZ
Yeah, that's a photo of Glen Farris dancing. The Denton Arts and Jazz Festival gets to the best of us. We, of course, scoured the annual event this year (mud and all) and even got our bud, Hayden Zaiser, to document some of it. Click through to check out a video of our exploits.
Read MoreHOW TO PARK ON HICKORY ST. WITH JOEY HAWKINS (VIDEO)
Hickory St. has recently made the change to back in angle parking and many Denton citizens are having a few issues with it. We first reported on the change way back in July of 2013. At the time, many were excited about the additional parking and safety measures that the adjustment would bring about. That said, since Hickory St. has reopened, many have been having difficulty parking in this fashion and about 25% of people haven't been doing it at all. We reached out to city council district 4 representative, Joey Hawkins, to see if he could teach us how to back in angle park.
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THE 35 DENTON COVER SERIES IS BACK
The 35 Denton cover series is back. In the past, the infamous video series of Dentonites covering national acts playing at the festival has spawned hits such as Jessie Frye's cover of The Mountain Goats' "jkladfjads," Shiny Around the Edges rendition of Built To Spill's "Twin Falls Idaho," and Legsweeper's interpretation of "My Block" by Bun B. Click through to find out what they're starting with this year...
Read MoreFRIDAY VIDEO THREESOME:
Friday's can sometimes be the doldrums at work. If you work in an office, you're probably sneaking in some Reddit or Youtube time (or your personal favorite time waster) in between spreadsheets and .psd's. Heck, maybe you work retail and have to do all of that on your mobile device. Maybe you're actually getting work done (bless you, hard worker). We're gonna focus on the lazy ones, though. Here are three local videos for your watching pleasure. A video from Wesley Kirk with a behind-the-scenes look at December's Help-Portrait: Denton event, another top-notch video from Fishboy that combines hand drawn animation with real life, and a video from The Hickory St. Project that highlights Hoochies. Let's hop to it...
Read MoreFRIDAY VIDEO THREESOME: NOVEMBER 2014
It's time for another Friday Video Threesome post in which we highlight three videos that involve Denton in some way, shape, or form. Today, we have a great video on Denton Coffee Culture created by a 16 year old, a video of Nite's performance at last month's SoFar Sounds show, and a fun GoPro video from Little Guys Movers showcasing what it's like to race a coffin down Oak St. Now let's watch some videos!
Here's a video about the coffee scene in Denton county from 16 year old Austin Leih. While Bookish is featured heavily, this is a video that focuses more on Denton County than the City of Denton so the other coffee shops we see are Trio in Flower Mound (which has fun Belgian waffle thingies, y'all) and Roots in Highland Village.
Nite at last month's SoFar Sounds show. You can read more about that show from our post here.
Here's a fun video with a first-hand account of what it is like to go down Oak St. in a coffin from Little Guys Movers. Now we kinda wanna build our own coffin next October.
FRIDAY VIDEO THREESOME: AUGUST 2014
Friday's can sometimes be the doldrums at work. If you work in an office, you're probably sneaking in some Reddit or Youtube time (or your personal favorite time waster) in between spreadsheets and .psd's. Heck, maybe you work retail and have to do all of that on your mobile device. Maybe you're actually getting work done (bless you, hard worker). We're gonna focus on the lazy ones, though. Here are three local videos for your watching pleasure. One is about local handmade furniture makers, Pastrana Studio, another is about the UNT Short Film Club, and the final one is a video from local band Criminal Birds. Let's get to it.
Local Makers is a new project from the creative crew of Ryan Polly, Daniel Routh and Grant Wakefield. They have another cool video up at their site featuring an interview of Clint Wilkinson of Bell and Oak. In this video, however, you can an inside view into the creative process of Julian and Katie Pastrana and their little world filled with some pretty sweet goods. They mention eventually opening up a store in the video and we hope they do. Follow their Instagram to see more shots of Pastrana Studios.
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We often highlight videos from UNT short film club and there's a good reason why. We really respect all of the work they do (one of us even helped judge in their last short documentary contest last spring). This short video shows what work is like in the short film club. If you're a UNT RTVF student (or even if you're not, but have an interest in video production), give it a watch and consider joining.
Lastly, one of our favorite bands, Criminal Birds, has a Kickstarter up to raise money for the release of a new EP and to raise some funds to tour. They're about halfway there and you can score some pretty good digs by donating. We wrote a little about them in our 3 Songs column back in January. You can read that post here. Consider donating to their Kickstarter here.