i’ve started playing around with video for about the last 18 months, learned a lot, but still have a lot to learn. here’s a short one i did a while ago. this is a time lapse that was shot with a canon 30d, taking 1 shot every three seconds. i then used sony vegas pro to put all the images together and make this short clip. mowing the yard real time is about an hour and 15.
yes, i know, i’m a bit late with this post. I took over 600 images during the three days the boys and I were there. it just took a while for me to get through them. 2010 was also the 75th anniversary of the DC-3, so there was almost 30 of them scheduled to be there. I’ve jumped out of a couple in my younger years, and I love the way a radial engine sounds, nothing like it.
well, as it turns out, I can’t use the mac g4 case after all. i spent last weekend drilling and cutting, making everything nice and neat. no sharp edges, burrs or crooked cut lines.
My current computer has been having a hard time keeping up with my photography and video, especially since I upgraded my camera last year to a Canon 5D, which is 13 megapixel. It’s about four or five years old, and in computer years, it’s practically a dinosaur. So I decided to build a kick-but graphics computer.
I also knew that I didn’t want to build just a generic box, I wanted to do something clever. I’ve seen computers built out of legos and old radio cabinets, but I wanted to something that no one’s thought of before. Then one day, cruising ebay for computer cases, I saw it. An Apple Power Mac G4 case. I was going to build a Windows computer in an Apple case. The cleverness was just mind boggling.
i read about this place on the internet a couple of years ago and decided it was a good place to start my urban exploring. it was close and relatively open (not behind barbed wire or such) and one of the guys i regularly shoot with knew right where it was located in irish hills. we didn’t get around going there till oct. of 2010 (more…)