With the amount of information being pushed across our screens every day it no longer has become a chore to find interesting material. The bigger challenge is finding the best and most personally relevant material. There is equity in sifting through all that content, in finding others and resources that do the same and are aliened with your sensibilities. So in that vein of curating our future I started a photo blog of images that move me. It has been a great experience and a way to keep my editing skills sharp. Hope you enjoy. Click link to it here http://stereo-scopic-blog.tumblr.com/

2009 Year in Iphone pic's

The best camera is the one that is always with you. When I moved to Seattle years ago the only person I knew there was Chase Jarvis. He is a big believer in the statement above. In honor of that statement here is a collection of my 2009 iphone photos. Top 5.


Click link to see the more than 60 photos that made up my year.

Digging in sometimes needs let out

I've been making stuff lately and haven't had a chance to share it so here it is. A new show reel.


Photos from a shoot for the Townhouse.

more photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/26148580@N05/sets/72157620526032852/

and the last segment from the Toyota road trip series I shot at the Dew Tour.

Day 5 Toyota Road Trips from Ben Dolenc on Vimeo.

Technology talk

Technology seems to be a common thread in a lot of what I have been doing lately. Looking at what is in front of you and seeing the possibilities of what can be done with it. Opportunity lives on every street corner. I just finished a bunch of interviews with hyper successful creatives and their relationship with technology. They use it as a tool to create balance in their personal lives stay connected and enhance their creativity. Many of creatives have worked in many different fields. It is exciting for me as new technologies are giving us the opportunity to put these different jobs in the blender and try to spit out some thing new. One of technology's biggest assets is making collaboration easier. So go out and collaborate. Oh and check out this collaboration inbflat.

Rehashed, refurbished, Reused

Here is some one of the pieces I did for Banquet (USA Today's action sport web site) in collaboration with Toyota. We shot these little travel pieces on a road trip following an JT to the Dew Tour. Each day we would shoot, edit and try to post the pieces to the web. In hind site we should have planed one day on, one day off. So I went back and dressed this one up a bit.

Road Trip from Ben Dolenc on Vimeo.

If you cruse through my posts you will see some photos from the behind the scenes of The Fray's latest video. We shot on the old War of the Worlds set at Universal Studios. Here is the video
Never Say Never

It was a very cold night for the people in that truck to say the least. Check out my good buddy Rod shooting the behind the scenes from within the scene at 1.20 or so.

Make something

Challenges always create opportunity. I have always been interested in aerial imagery. For years I have been looking for a way to shoot images in the space between where a plane can fly and we can stand. From cable to pole cameras getting creative with the space up off the ground seems to always be rewarded. I came across this video from Make Magazine today and it got the ideas flowing.

Make Magazine is doing these great pieces on the DIY culture. I first saw them as pod casts on Itunes and now they are making there way to PBS. Web to TV? I cant verify this but expect to see more content headed that direction.

Honda the power of dreams

Its funny that the title of this project is The Power of Dreams it fits both the content of the short films and the promise of what you can do with on the web with video. The content looks amazing and is powerful, going against everyone who ever said web video is for handy cameras and lip sinking videos. As more brands see what can be done with web content, expect more short format branded content like this. Note there is hardly a actual Honda car in some of these pieces. They are building brand loyalty with quality content. This was a viewer comment- Chaitanya K "I think these are very good videos, I was thinking about Toyota for my next car... but the videos will make me got to the Honda Showroom..." Ha! Probably a friend of the film maker yet there is no question to the value of the content.


This second piece reminds me of one of my favorite places that I look for inspiration the TED talks web site. I am sure most of you know about it but whenever I need some help remembering what is important and how much I enjoy creating these always seem to do it for me.