The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
November 9th 2007 – November 13th 2008
one year on foot – 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
http://www.thelongestway.com
musical score by the kingpins ( http://www.myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo
Christoph’s Notes =>
- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.
- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.
- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.
- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.
- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo – “Olive Tree” and 2) The Kingpins – “L’aventurier” – visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.
- This is not a strict “1 pic a day” video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.
- The core of this project is in fact my website “www.thelongestway.com” where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.
Canon EOS5DmkII, One night in Beijing. from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
Video filmed by Guardian photographer Dan Chung entirely on a production Canon EOS5DmkII and adapted Nikon and Zeiss lenses using manual focus. The camera was purchased to use solely as a video camera with existing Nikon kit.
The film was shot an edited in about twelve hours directly after picking the camera up from a Beijing camera store and charging the battery.
Lenses used are:
Nikon 17-35 f2.8
Nikon 80-200 f.8
Nikon 85mm f2.8 shift lens
Nikon 16mm f2.8 fisheye
Zeiss/Contax 85mm f1.4
The camera was set to neutral picture style, sharpness all the way down and contrast at -2. Saturation was left alone.
Edited in Final Cut Pro, the footage was all converted to Apple Prores 422 using MPEG Streamclip because there were problems using the native H.264 Mpeg files. It was exported as a QT at 720p. There was no grading, exposure or colour correction on this footage.
For a comparison you can see a Nikon D90 low light test video here http://vimeo.com/1728575
See www.guardian.co.uk/profile/danchung for more of Dan Chung’s work.
And see http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china for more coverage of China from the Guardian.
