Premiere of "Urban. Mountain. Sky" - NEW TL FILM by Christoph Malin - Innsbruck Metropol Kino, 25.6., 18:30 / 6.30 p.m.

Dear Friends!!

I have the great pleasure, to announce the Film premiere of my new TimeLapse Shortfilm "Urban. Mountain. Sky", produced with the City of Innsbruck (Innsbruckmarketing.com) and TinyType (Audiocallygraphy.com)

taking place at the Innsbruck Metropol Cinema (1 Minute Walk from Innsbruck's Historic Old Town Centre) on June 25th, from 18:30 or 6.30 p.m. No admittance, open to the public. Entrance is open from 17:30 or 5:30 p.m.

Program:
- "Making of Urban. Mountain. Sky", introducing Speakers Mag. Johannes Kostenzer of the Tiroler Umweltanwaltschaft (with special Project Hellenot.org) and more
- Short Lecture by Special Guest Babak A. Tafreshi, Founder of Twanight.org
- Premiere!
- Q & A, finishing around 19:30 or 7:30 p.m.
- short walk over (5 Minutes) to the Treibhaus Culture Cafe, UMS Premiere Party, lectures by Dr. Dietmar Hager of AEC Linz and Bernd Pröschold of Sternstunden.net





CU Soon

Long night of Science and Research, Tyrol - Lectures, lectures, lectures...

This weekend, Saturda, April 28th, I am having three Lectures at the Long Night of Science and Research, Institute of Astrophysics, University of Innsbruck...

http://www.tiroler-forschungsnacht.at/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=7&show=1&Itemid=56&group_id=1672



The detailed program can be found here:

http://www.tiroler-forschungsnacht.at/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=7&show=1&Itemid=56&group_id=1696

Would be nice to see you there...

Cheers
Christoph

TimeLapse Works for the 4-Part TV Series "Bavaria from above"

Out in the dark again!

For the four-part TV series "Bavaria from above" to be aired 1st quarter of 2013, I have produced TimeLapse footage as a special unit in cooperation with German CamPilots. "Bavaria from above" paints a unique view of Bavaria. The goal is to focus all senses to special places: Locations, Buildings, Mountains, that all develop their beauty during TimeLapse cinematography. Additionally a well woven storyline with carefully selected local protagonists and their individual stories gives a strong emotion. Production runs until End of 2012.



All the best
Christoph Malin

"Astronomer's Paradise" airing on "The Daily" issue Sun, March 11th, TD the number one iPad News App!

"The Daily" is an awesome News App, utilizing the iPads capabilities to it's best. In fact it is the #1 News App on iTunes. As we heard, editors at The Daily's headquarters in NY were blown away by our Starry Sky video "Astronomer's Paradise". Thanks to everyone! Glad you like it!



Further infos:

Making-of and behind the Scene look on Astronomer's Paradise with Nikon Rumors
For best viewing quality here's the original Video on Vimeo
A great review on National Geographic News
ESO news Rediscovering Life on Earth
"The Daily" on iTunes

With best regards,
Christoph Malin

Christoph Malin now ESO Photo Ambassador

I am happy to say, that I recently have been appointed to be ESO Photo Ambassador. For me it is a honor, to create images and timelapse movies for one of the worlds most outstanding observatory organizations on frontline astronomy, and to be a member of this remarkable team of photographers.

With best regards,
Christoph Malin

Astronomer's Paradise on NatGeo, Discovery Channel with over 220.000 plays on Vimeo

I am happy to announce, that the new TimeLapse Video "Astronomer's Paradise", a joint venture project with good friend and Lennart Nilson Prizeholder Babak Tafreshi of Twanight.org has been featured on National Geograpic News as well as on Discovery Channel and other news sites. It has also aired with Discovery Channel Canada, at a news flash. Within weeks the Video has now reached more than 500.000 plays on Babak's and my Vimeo Page from 150 countries. There is also a Making-of with further details on the project, I did for Nikon Rumors, the biggest Nikon Fan Site in the world.

Astronomer's Paradise from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.

Thanks to you all for making this Shortfilm a global success and also thanks so much for all the positive feedback! This keeps us going for Part II and III of this beautiful project.

With best regards,
Christoph Malin

ESO Chile Trip to Paranal and Atacama Large mm Array

Howdy,

I recently got back from an awesome TWAN photo expedition to Chile that took two weeks. To be honest, taking footage at the ALMA observatory was one of the most freak assignments I have ever done. A scary and beautiful place all at once.


Image by: Babak Tafreshi / Twanight.org

Mission goal was to capture timelapse- as well as stills footage of the huge ESO projects / facilities Cerro Paranal and ALMA at the Atacama Desert, the words driest place. We filmed 5 nights a row at ALMA (5050 m).



Joining on that trip were friends Babak Tafreshi of Twanight.org and in the second week Stephane Guisard of Los Cielos de Americas (Head of Telescope Engineering at Paranal). It was a great experience travelling and photographing with these true masters of astrophotography!



The expedition was the most extreme assignment I have ever done, including

- two weeks of all night footage taking from 6:00 p.m. to 08:00 a.m., which was very demanding
- extreme heights with 5000+ m at the Chajnator Plateau
- extreme dry air, heat and cold, the Atacama desert is a non-forgiving place and zero-fault tolerant!
- very complicated logistics of bringing the huge equipment there and back



The TimeLapse footage is currently in processing both here and in Chile ;), it takes a while. about 50000+ images are being processed into timelapse movies.



During two nights off, we were able to visit Valle di Luna and some other great locations.



Looking forward to a new movie about our ESO adventures!

In the meantime enjoy a gallery here: http://gallery.me.com/vertrider#101679


Image by: Babak Tafreshi / Twanight.org

Cheers