We’re pleased to release The Ten-Block Walk, a collaboration with librettist and theatre artist Christie Lee Gibson to promote a new opera of the same name. Read more about how we conceived and created this short time-lapse video.

We’re pleased to welcome our new intern, Kristen, to the team. She’s a talented editor and will be spending most of her energy shaping a feature documentary collaboration with amazo productions; stay tuned for more news on this front. Other duties will include audio editing and spending some time behind the camera learning DSLR shooting techniques.

Kristen is a graduate of Emerson College, where she was director of programming at the Emerson Channel, and she has worked for Pearson Education in Boston and Psychic Bunny in Los Angeles. Kristen plays the saxophone, and she insisted on smiling for her headshot, unlike a few of us (see, nonfiction is serious business).

For the first installment of “Remarkable Short Docs” we present Cassini Mission, an eerie trip to the moons of Saturn through repurposed NASA footage. Designer and director Chris Abbas spoke with Ben via phone and email.

Ben: Cassini Mission is stitched together out of thousands of still images, shot for scientific—not cinematic—reasons. How did you discover the potential there?

Chris: Late one night, I discovered a huge library containing raw images of Saturn on the JPL Cassini Solstice Mission website. At a glance it seemed like the images were displayed in sequential order, so I downloaded some and played them back at twenty-four frames per second. The result was incredibly interesting to me—it was like watching a timelapse in space—so onward it went until I was finished.

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We’re hitting the new year running with a clean new look, thanks to some fellow creatives here in Boston.

This shiny new site is courtesy of our friends Dan and Amy at Height & Hands. It not only looks great on your computer, but on any size mobile device; try grabbing the corner of your browser window and making it smaller. Web designers call this “responsive design,” but we call it just plain showing off.

Our new letterpress cards were hand-printed by the good folks at Albertine Press. Originally invented by Johannes Gutenberg, in the fifteenth century, letterpress printing is used nowadays for short-run, high-polish jobs, and you can feel the impression that the type makes in the paper. “Artisanal” is a word that gets thrown around a lot. We think it’s the right fit.

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