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Story behind the song:
Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson were booked for a Piano Guys show in Hawaii. How could we resist filming our next video in the land of Aloha -- beautiful beaches, green mountains, and fresh pineapple?? We went to our Founders and Facebook fans to ask what song they wanted us to play there. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was the nearly-unanimous response. But you know how we are ... we couldn't "just" do this tune by itself...so in the studio we found a made-in-heaven matchup in the timeless melody from the Shaker Hymn "Simple Gifts" written in the 1800's (also used by Aaron Copland in his Ballet "Appalachian Spring"). We feel it's an especially appropriate mash-up because of our profound love and respect for the Hawaiian culture -- a people who are so good at finding happiness in simplicity. As you probably could hear we borrowed a lot of ideas from Iz's version which has become the stuff of legend. This arrangement is, in part, a tribute to him.
Getting a piano onto a sandy beach and then onto a big hill in a famous ranch within the SAME day (we only had 8 hours to film) was no small feat. The only thing harder would be to be predict Hawaiian weather, which ended up being our biggest challenge.
"We had a little extra help on this one. My mother, Lynne Sanders Nelson -- a main source of my inspiration for pursuing music -- passed away early in life from the effects of a brain tumor. She was an incredibly-gifted musician and taught me to play music passionately rather than just playing 'notes' on a page. 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' was one of her favorite songs. We finished this arrangement on what would have been her 70th birthday. Somehow she helped. I miss her so very much, but when I play songs like this I feel like I get to be with her again. This song is dedicated to her."
-Steven Sharp Nelson
Thank you so much to the Kualoa Ranch who bent over backwards last-minute for us and provided us such a beautiful place to shoot. Visit their site at http://www.kualoa.com -- when you visit Hawaii be sure to stop by and take a tour -- its where dozens of huge blockbluster movies/tv shows have been filmed.
This song is dedicated to
Lynne Sanders Nelson, The Hill Family, J. Mueller, & the people of Hawaii
Filming locations:
Beach Scene:
Pounders Beach, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii
Finale:
Kualoa Ranch, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii (This is the place to go for sightseeing on Oahu!)
Toll Free: (800) 231-7321
Tour Desk: (808) 237-7321
http://www.kualoa.com
Credits:
Over the Rainbow music written by Harold E. Arlen in 1939 for the movie "Wizard of Oz" -- originally performed by Judy Garland
Published by EMI Feist Catalog, Inc.
Inspired, in part, by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's cover
Simple Gifts written by Joseph Brackett in 1848
Arrangement produced by Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Arrangement written by Jon Schmidt, Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Video produced by Paul Anderson and Tel Stewart
Piano: Jon Schmidt
Electric/Acoustic Cellos: Steven Sharp Nelson
Vocals: Al van der Beek
Percussion: Steven Sharp Nelson & Al van der Beek
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Al van der Beek at TPG Studio
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Update: The new Canon 5D Mark III was announced last night and it available for pre-order right now and will be shipping at the end of this month I believe. I will do a blog post on it later today if I have time.
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I'm really excited for the Canon announcement tonight. Not sure what it is, but everyone is thinking it is about the new Canon 5D Mark III.
I have used the Canon T2i for the past two years and I have really enjoyed using it, but I think I am ready to step up to a full frame camera. I am not alone, I can see on the forums that many are ready to step up to a full frame as well. Once I get a full frame camera then I think I will be investing in some nice glass.
I have some money set aside for a new camera and I am ready to pull the trigger. But in order for me to shell out $3,500 for a new 5D, I am looking for Canon to fix some of the following issues. Moire/Aliasing - this is the number one thing I hope they fix, I can't tell you how many of my shots have been ruined by this. Headphone jack - this should be the easiest feature for them to add. I would love this for interviews so I can monitor the audio while I ask questions. Considering that Nikon has already done this, my bet is Canon will have this too. Tilt out screen - great for low shots. 1080 at 60fps - I don't think this is going to happen, but I can be hopeful. Either improve the compression codec or provide a clean HDMI out - many people are saying that Canon is not likely to give us an uncompressed clean HDMI output because it will hurt their more expensive line of video cameras, I am guessing they are right. If they are not going to include this I am going to lean more to the Nikon D800 when it comes out. I hope they do not put a lock button on the mode dial. SD card slot, I know some don't like the SD cards, but I think they work great. I hope they don't make it hard to hack, I hope they allow Alex over at Magic Lantern to hack it so we can get things Canon will never give us like waveform monitors and such. More lenses with IS built in.
Rolling Shutter is not on this list - for my shooting style this is not a big of an issue for me, for people like Freddie Wong that do lots of action I can see this being a big one for them.
I added myself to the waiting list at B&H to review the camera, so I should be one of the first to review it that didn't have a pre-production unit.
I won't be the first to have a review out, because I plan to take my time and do a thorough review, I hope to review it against the Nikon D800 as well.
You might see me hanging out in some of the hangouts at will be going on tonight. So what do you guys want to see from the new 5D?
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