The video features some cool cats.

It was all shot at 1920×1080 25p, ingested as Apple Pro Res LT via FCP and the Canon EOS plugin.
I bought the upgrade to Magic Bullet Colorista II as well a few days ago so I used it to push some colours around in this clip.

Episode 14 takes us north of Lijang, Yunnan province, up above the Yangtze River to Tiger Leaping Gorge.

Check it out here, or be even cooler and check out our new site PlanetKapow.com and read in much more interesting detail about what we got up to. (Warning – contains graphic images of a pig being butchered, and the occasional/usual swearing.)

Ping Pong Kapow episode 14 from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

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• At Tue 15, June 2010, Hugh wrote:

  Yowsers! That's some big mountains! Very impressive views and a cool video!

Iran Trip 2009 from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

In February 2009 I was fortunate to spend 3 weeks traveling in Iran (a.k.a Persia).

In those 3 weeks I got to explore Rasht, Tehran, Shiraz, Persepolis, Maybod, Yazd and along the way I met by some of the most friendly & welcoming people I have ever met.

Iran thank you very much for this incredible adventure!

Music: Iranian musician by the name of Homay (Saied Jafar-zadeh) – http://www.last.fm/music/Mastan%2B%2526%2BHomay

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• At Sun 7, February 2010, Ben wrote:

  I didn't want that video to end - loved it!

  I find out tomorrow if my visa application has been approved or rejected. If successful, I'll arrive in Tehran in April. Any travel tips?

  Thanks.

• At Sun 7, February 2010, Mohanad Abrahim wrote:

  Amazing , saw your tweet and say hey lets see Iran

  May be i should visit there sometime .

• At Mon 8, February 2010, Adam wrote:

  Thanks guys!

  @Ben - best of luck with your visa application, I am sure you will be fine. Out of interest how much is costing you? I paid €55 in Istanbul a year ago.

  Travel tips - hmmm, i wish i'd spent more time up in the north west. I highly recommend the Trans Asia express train from Istanbul to Tehran - 3 days and is incredible.

  Make sure you take cash into Iran, a mate of mine didn't but luckily a random Iranian dude on the train leant him €400!

• At Mon 8, February 2010, arnika knight wrote:

  awesome video...going in April and really looking forward to it, especially after that video, going to take the train as well, which looking AMAZING in the winter. nice work

• At Tue 9, February 2010, Ben wrote:

  I live in Korea so I applied through a visa agency, which cost me 35 EUR. It'll be more on top paid at the Iranian embassy in Seoul, and I'm anticipating something higher than your 55. Anywhere up to 100.

  Thanks for the tips. I've decided to follow your advice and fly into Istanbul from Kuala Lumpur after the SE Asia leg of my trip, then catch the Trans-Asia express to Tehran as you did. I love train journeys. I heard about the cash situation, I'll be prepared.

  Cheers Adam!

• At Tue 9, February 2010, Anna A wrote:

  Fantastic video! I'm headed to to Iran for 3 weeks over Norouz and cannot wait (first time). Thanks for sharing!

• At Tue 9, February 2010, Adam wrote:

  Thanks Arnika! I hope u have as good a time as I did! The Trans Asia express is fantastic, check out http://seat61.com - it's got all the good info. Let me know how ur trip goes!

• At Thu 11, February 2010, fran wrote:

  I am so jealous! two trips to Iran and nothing I made is as good as this. So happy you loved the country as much as i do. thank you.

• At Fri 12, February 2010, Lior wrote:

  Hey Adam!

  im Israeli, and therefor can not go to Iran, unfortunately. even more sadly after seeing your great video!

  but, i do study about Iran in the university. im doing a research about tourism in Iran/ Shiraz, and would love it if you can help me with that. seems like you had quite an experience, and i could use your advise.

  if you would like to help me, please contact me at lior_laufer@yahoo.com

  Thanks a lot!

  Lior

• At Sat 13, February 2010, taariq hassan wrote:

  I loved Iran except for the food and would love to go back and see some of the NW and NE rather than the centre . Koshon was a real highlight esp. the day I woke up and it had snowed on the hills in the desert. That town was exactly the way I imagined Persia to be like.

  Shame about the Govt. They are just evil barbarians, unlike the people who are fab . and the language is beautiful.

• At Tue 16, February 2010, Parisa wrote:

  Hay Adam !

  I really enjoyed watching this video, and I am so happy that you have enjoyed visiting my country, Iran.

  It is so nice that you recommend visiting Iran to others.

  Bests,

  Parisa

• At Wed 17, February 2010, Amir wrote:

  Amazing amazing video.

  Other than the wonderful experience you've shared with us, those portraits at the end of the video give me goosebumps, awesome. I couldn't thank you enough for these.

  P.S. If you don't mind let me know what did you use to edit the photos ?

  Cheers

• At Wed 17, February 2010, John wrote:

  Hi Adam -- video incredibly well done. Had to see it again back-to-back. And your music bed is extraordinary. Thanks for info on that. You truly understand Iran. Will be there in May 2011. We hope something very good happens to you resulting from this production. -- John

• At Thu 18, February 2010, Adam wrote:

  Wow thank you all for the positive feedback!

  @Amir - thanks! All my photos were RAW and processed in Aperture 2 & Photoshop CS3.

  @John - thank you! I definitely understand very little about Iran! But I was lucky enough to keep my mind pretty open whilst I was over there and I think that helps being in a place that is so heavily judged from the outside. Pretty much every person I met over there was incredibly helpful and friendly and curious about my opinions on Iran. Would love to hear about your experiences when you get over there. Have a great trip!

• At Mon 1, March 2010, Piet Osefius wrote:

  Hi Adam,

  Your video is fantastic, good work! It's a nice example to show the quality of your magnificent Lumix LX3 travel companion. I'm running a LX3 blog for Dutch speaking people and I published your video. I hope you don't mind.

  Best regards,

  Piet

• At Mon 1, March 2010, Adam wrote:

  Hey Piet!

  Thank you very much!

  Thank you for reposting my video on your blog, I really appreciate it!

• At Tue 23, March 2010, Maria wrote:

  Hi Adam

  My boyfriend have been trying to convince me to go to Iran for a while and I just wouldnt have any of it. Beeing Danish makes it a bit worse though.

  But after he showed me this amazing video I have been less reluctant and we are now planing to go very soon.

  Thank you :-)

  Maria

• At Sat 3, April 2010, Alex wrote:

  This video was nice and it was showing enjoyable moments that I hope you liked it, but apparently this trip was not showing the real face of Iran this was arranged for a lower class trip for student type tourists. The video and music was incredible and you did a perfect job!

  Please watch this video to see the True Iran!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3dMnIbZ6q0&feature=related

• At Sat 3, April 2010, Alex wrote:

  Life is too short just see beautiful things, think calm and relax, live to generate enjouyable moments remeber we can not fix anything, what do you see behind this face in the first shut of your video.....

  ++Kish Island, Iran..... Flower of the East

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnBcdwzRrFQ&feature=related

• At Sat 3, April 2010, Adam wrote:

  Hey Alex! Thanks for your comments!

• At Sat 3, April 2010, Adam wrote:

  Hi Maria!

  I hope you make it to Iran and have as good a time as I did!

  Please let us know about your journey wen you get over there!

  Happy travels!

• At Tue 6, April 2010, maryam wrote:

  HI

  I got really happy that you enjoyed so much of your trip and made this wonderful video. I need your permission to post this page on my facebook profile.

  thanks

  hope to c u again in Iran

• At Sat 10, April 2010, ola wrote:

  amazing video. Its mean there live normal people just world shows them in bad light. Better for us who wanna see still pure Iran :) Im going next week there. Cant wait!

• At Mon 12, April 2010, Sandra wrote:

  Hi Adam!

  Friend of mine introduced me to your Jakkayarn video and got 'lured' here. :)

  It's a really awesome video. Did you take the stills with the LX3 as well?

  Hope to see more of your creative stuff!

  Cheers!

  Sandra

• At Fri 18, June 2010, hitesh wrote:

  lovely video

  iran looks very very beautiful

• At Fri 25, June 2010, Louis wrote:

  Thanks for sharing your trip with us Adam,it puts a very human face to country which receives so much unnecessary negative press in the west.

  I`v visited Turkey on a couple occasions and the hospitality shown by the people there is amazing and i`m sure this is the case across the region.

  Louis.....

Barely 2 days after arriving in Sydney I found myself standing in awe of the cool sounds of Les Claypool live at the Enmore theatre. Big thanks to Liam for hooking me up with a ticket!

Mr Claypool and his band are on tour with their new album “Of Fungi And Foe”

(apologies for the poor audio)

(apologies for the poor audio)

Having wanted to see Primus for so long this was definitely the next best thing. He’s the man and I’d definitely agree in calling him the bext bass player in the world!
As well as all the tracks he played off “Of Fungi And Foe” tracks Les also dropped a couple of great Primus bombs and the crowd loved it.

(apologies for the poor audio)

Sometime back I was commissioned to write soundtrack music for two projects that promised to have quite a bit of very intense and unique imagery. One was for an interactive game about a meteor that hits Earth and brings intelligence to the mushrooms within the crash proximity and the other was about a three thousand pound wild boar that terrorizes the marijuana fields of Northern California. Obviously the makers of the subsequent Mushroom Men game and Pig Hunt film were very aware of my tastes and perspectives because the music oozed from me in such a natural way that I believe it came as much from my pores as it did my mind. This music became the foundation of the songs that fill this collection. With a few added tidbits and a bit of gypsy sauce, I inflict upon you… OF FUNGI AND FOE[3]

When I can get to some great bandwidth I’ll upload the HD version.

On July 12th 2009 Nicholas Ward and Adam Teale left Bangkok Thailand and rode their bicycles south through Thailand and Malaysia, and after 2100km and nearly a month of riding, made it to Singapore

Here it is via Vimeo:

Dude, where’s my Jakkayarn? from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

Download the 854×480 h264 version

6 Comments

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Patrick wrote:

  Awesome video Mr Teale!

  Where are you at now btw?

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Hahaha, awesome video. Gives a nice touch to all the reading. :-) Loved the spy cam. :-D

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  Thanks Guys!

  @Patrick - am in southern thailand hanging out on Koh Lanta island. You gotta check it out sometime!

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Luke wrote:

  Thanks for sharing the trip with us, great work on the bike-cam and editing. You two rock.

  L

• At Fri 27, November 2009, ano wrote:

  well done sir. quite jealous. next trip?

• At Fri 27, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  cheers fellas!

  @ano - Next trip - not sure, heading to Sydney to work until July next year. By then I'm sure i'll be keen to go on an adventure again!

  What about you dude??

Teale Reel from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

Some work from the past 2 years in Bangkok, Thailand at finito! films

3 Comments

• At Fri 19, June 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  So that's what you've been doing in one of the world's cities. Cool stuff! I'm stunned! :-O

• At Wed 24, June 2009, BENNY wrote:

  I really like kon thai jai yen ! That's very cool VFX demo reel man ,work with you again soon .

  BENNY

• At Thu 25, June 2009, Adam wrote:

  thanks guys!

  @Benny - will see you guys soon.

Low-Res

A bit of Goreme from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

HD

A bit of Goreme – HD from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

3 Comments

• At Mon 9, February 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Wow, great movie and pics! Feels so unreal! It's good you have your LX3 working! :-)

• At Mon 9, February 2009, Adam wrote:

  thanks dude! yeah u must get to Turkey sometime! Goreme is indeed unreal. Summer must be a great time to be here

• At Tue 10, February 2009, Lucy wrote:

  WOOOOOW! Nice vidio, damn, beautiful there, i wish i was there too!! Miss you!

Hong Kong – New Year’s Eve 2008-2009 from Adam Teale on Vimeo.