vimeo: (Pr) Blake Whitman by Protein® In...

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(Pr) Blake Whitman by Protein®

In addition to being a gentleman explorer and cool dude all around, Blake is the VP of Creative Development here at Vimeo.

He sat down with the folks at Protein to talk about new technologies and how they have transformed digital filmmaking. Check it!

I wanted to reblog this interview mainly so I could add that Vimeo is one of the very few sites online that has, in a very real and traceable way, changed my life; I don’t know where I would be without it… surely not where I am today.

To elaborate: Vimeo was one of the first sites with a community of people that seemed to care, seemed to encourage, seemed invested in others in a way that I had never seen - in real life or online.

I had been sharing the videos I made for FToM on YouTube, Blip, Revver, iTunes, etc, and never really found a group of people who seemed to connect with what I was saying. When I found Vimeo later on, I simply was attracted by the attention to style in the player - but only after uploading a few of my older videos did I notice I had finally found something very, very different…

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