They cut out a few cool things, but the quality is amazing! Behind the scenes post is -here-
Edit: Check out http://nurdproductions.com for the HD version!
Before the first video has even been completely finished and released, a new one we just shot in Seattle is coming out this Friday the 8th. Graciously sponsored by Stoel Rives law firm, this one focuses on a race in a full business suit across Seattle shot in full 4K (about 8 times the size of 720 HD) by the RED ONE camera.
Running 3
Stills for an upcoming Parkour spot sponsored by Stoel Rives LLP and produced by NüRD Productions, starring Tyson Cecka
From: Tyson Cecka
Vault 2
Stills for an upcoming Parkour spot sponsored by Stoel Rives LLP and produced by NüRD Productions, starring Tyson Cecka
From: Tyson Cecka
Death drop #1
Freaky as hell, can't wait to see this shot
From: Tyson Cecka
RED One
The RED One camera :) Plus lens, matte box, battery, hard drive, huge monitor, and double rails with a few grips.
From: Tyson Cecka
Updated with new footy!
Blog’s been quiet recently as I’ve been having a little mini-vacation with my folks in Vancouver, WA. I came down originally for a video shoot with some cool guys but I ended up staying down for Mother’s Day as well (love ya Mom!).
The shoot went really well though and I’m very excited to see the finished project. Why? We shot on the RED One digital camera system 
110fps at 2K resolution, that’s about 4x slow motion in higher than full HD resolution.
Update: The song is “Death of a lonely superhero” by Clover. Here’s a link:
Click -here- to see a hires rough cut of a few locations, and see below for the photos!
Here is a short (~1m) sampler I put together for a few different sites, the first time I’ve actually had a time restriction on an edit. The footage at the beginning is all old video memories, and the footage after that is a mix of FloShizzle, the K-Swiss commercial, the Tokyo doc, and the Mervyns commercials. This is also my first edit using Final Cut Pro on my new MacBook Pro, and it kicks ass 
You can view and download the high quality version (480p) through torrent -here- or by using the button on the right.
Enjoy!
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K-Swiss Freerunning Commercial Director’s Cut
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Credits
As promised, this is the Director’s Cut from Ken Arlidge of the K-Swiss commercial “Even Playing Field” featuring Tyson Cecka, Victor Lopez, and Anna Kournikova advertising the new Ariake freerunning shoe.
We also had Mark Toorock (from my team - The Tribe) behind the scenes acting as the parkour consultant (scouting, choreographing, managing), as well as Frosti, Skynative, and Xin jumping in whenever needed for additional stunts (none of their stuff made it into this commercial unfortunately, but you can see Levi’s whole other commercial here).
More to Come!
Ken went through around three days of footage to cut together this 49 second version for his personal reel. He even sent me to a sound studio in Seattle to get the first second of audio. But we were doing a lot more than just sitting around for those three days of shooting, there is still some really good footage out there that hasn’t seen the light of day yet.
But no worries, that extra footage is definitely not going to waste. In a few weeks I’ll have both a higher quality version of this commercial (both TV and Director’s Cut) up for download, as well as all of the original footage from every shoot day to put into my new stunt reel! Thank you K-Swiss and Aero Films!
Check Back
You can find out more about this commercial on my media page, or keep checking back here because the full write-up of the amazing experience is coming soon. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed for automatic updates.
Shooting at 600p requires an incredible amount of light because of the extremely fast shutter speed. Today we shot inside which means they used practically every single lamp they had. They even specially rented some humongous 20k+ beams of death that I didn’t even know existed. We couldn’t stay in front of the camera for very long because it was so hot that the makeup would melt. Which brings interesting challenges when you are trying to throw flips and things, the lights in your eyes are blinding yet you cannot look away…
I forgot to bring my camera again today so sorry for the lack of pictures. While almost all of my parkour buddies are up in Bellingham training like mad, indoors and out, I sat around today on set and did absolutely nothing for seven hours… Although my call time was at 10:30am I didn’t actually go on camera till sometime after 5pm. That is not a unique occurrence for commercials though, sometimes there are days where I never even go on camera!
But I’m not complaining, Continue Reading »
Ah, it feels good to be on a professional set again. This time it’s a commercial for Mervyns fashion. And when the footage comes out for this one you are all going to be blown away. They are shooting at 600 frames per second…in HD. That is 20x slowmotion at perfect sharpness at high resolution!
Today I jumped over some walls, created this new weird two step angled extended sideflip thing, and played on a huge trampoline on top of a parking garage in downtown Seattle. It’s feels really good to work local, this city really is the best.
And good news, I am now eligible for entry into the Screen Actors Guild! Things are getting exciting
Magic the Gathering TV Commercial
Tyson Cecka Magic the Gathering TV Commercial Ad. If you can’t see this commercial video then you may need to activate Javascript.
*Warning: No parkour content! No vaults, no flips, no anything. Just that acting crap.*
So this is one not many people know about, it showed up on the G4 channel for awhile and supposedly it’s embedded in some flash ads somewhere but I’ve never seen them… I’ve actually done some model work with them as well which will show up in the next few months. How are my acting skills? 
