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I read about a man once, and I honestly couldn't remember who he was, but in the nutshell, he returned from the tourist trip with tons of photos, and when his friends asked him why he hadn't uploaded them online yet, he said that he needed to enrich them with words first; otherwise, they would be just a pile of nice colored moments taken in time and saying very little or nothing at all about the trip and all the sites he visited. The same is with me, and the same truth goes with videos as well. Let me be honest about watching other people's videos online and browsing private photos uploaded to social media. I am simply not impressed with many of them because they lack the story. With me, there is no point of uploading a nicely taken photo of you and your friends in front of some historic place or monument and explaining nothing about where you were, why you were taking that photo, or without saying a little something about the place itself. With videos, it goes even furth...

History of motion pictures dates back to the second part of the 19th century with photographers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who, among others, were the first to take several images per second in one effort—all for scientific purposes back then—to study the locomotion of birds, animals, and humans. For example, Muybridge was the first to take a series of photographs of a galloping horse in order to prove that in one single instant of time all four horse legs are not touching the ground. More or less at the same time on another continent, Marey created a shotgun-shaped camera capable with one trigger pull to capture 12 images in a row within one single second and store them all on the single 90mm film. He used his gun to study various motions of animals, fish, and insects within his so-called 'animated zoo', including dropping cats from different heights and filming them always landing on their feet. ELMO Super 106, 8mm movie camera It was not long af...

Some years are more memorable than others, and there's no doubt that this is one of those subjective feelings if we are looking at the past solar cycle from an individual point of view. Some are forgettable and disappointing by using the same perspective. If I had to judge about 2016, I would say it was one of those forgettable ones. Perhaps not really because of what happened badly or poorly during the past twelve months but rather of what didn't happen again. Perhaps it was me who once again made a mistake and had higher expectations from humanity and ended in a sort of letdown once more. Obama & Medvedev at Ray's Hell Burger in 2010 Actually, if we want to get into disappointment fast, it's easy; the only thing we need to do is to have a glimpse or two of worldwide politics and worldwide affairs. But it wasn't always like that. Every now and again we get ourselves into the illusion that things can be perfect, or better to say the least. Ever since Ba...

People are asking me these days: What is the "Game of Life" we are dealing with this whole summer? The only honest answer I can give is that I don't really know. I guess I lost myself in the entire story of our pioneer filmmaking project. It started like any other father-son benign tech play—it was sometime back in the middle of April when I was categorizing our pile of ordinary family video files and our 'cooking series'. So in a moment of 'light bulb floating above my head' I asked myself why we don't move one step further and create a little longer short film of some sort. So I asked Viktor, and he seemed thrilled about it, especially when I told him that he would play the major role, and from there our "Game of Life" project became reality and started growing and morphing into a real short movie, and after a little while began being more and more enjoyable and serious. In short, after four months of all of our 'Hollywood' effort...