Here is the latest collaboration between my son Rian and I. This time we made a stop motion movie using his Mario toys. Unlike the Star Wars stop motion movies we have made in the past this one actually has a little bit of sound. I hope you enjoy it…
I hope Santa treats everyone nicely this year. Here is a link to the Hanft e-card. I swore I would never be the kind of person who made a video of my cat, but that’s kind of what happened. See for yourself here.
I hate that the days are so short now, but the good thing about daylight saving time is that it makes it easier to make timelapse videos of the sunset from out the window of the office where I work. Here is what today’s evening clouds looked like:
I don’t know why YouTube messed up the first second or so of the clip, but you can at least get the idea. I am hoping to post some more of these in the next couple months.
This week I have been sorting through all the timelapse movies I have made over the last 3 years. It’s a surprisingly big job and man, time flies! Most of them are just sunsets and clouds, but I have also made some driving movies and other random stuff. I will be uploading them all to YouTube hopefully this weekend. I probably won’t make a post for each video I am going to uplaod, so you might want to check my YouTube page if you like my work. Here are some of the more interesting ones:
Here are some clouds taken in our back yard:
Another sunset from our office in Loveland:
Geese on a frozen lake:
My commute to work:
Stars moving in the night sky:
Driving to Nebraska over Thanksgiving:
Rian wanted to make a movie today so we hooked up the camera, got out his Star Wars guys, and started playing. He had the idea of using the printer as a spaceship and this is the movie we came up with. Enjoy…
I finally got around to posting the other Star Wars stop motion movies that Rian and I made together. Enjoy.
Rian and I like to make short stop motion movies with his Star Wars guys. We have half a dozen or so little films now and I thought I would put them on YouTube so I can share them with you. Here are a few of our first attempts at movie making:
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If you have ever traveled through the midwest across states like Kansas or Nebraska it probably isn’t something you look forward to doing again. Call me crazy but I kind of like those long boring drives. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t want to do it regularly, but when the trek is only for holidays I always find myself looking forward to the drive. There is something therapeutic about being behind the wheel for 8 hours or more. No distractions. Nowhere to go. Nothing but your thoughts. No excuses for not thinking about the things that are so easy to ignore when you are “plugged in.” By the time I arrive I am road weary but I also feel rebooted.
For Thanksgiving we drove home to Nebraska and I decided to make a timelapse of the drive. I strapped the camera to the dashboard and told the camera to take a picture every seven seconds. The result is what it would look like if you were driving at 25,000 miles per hour:
I checked my YouTube stats yesterday and was surprised to see that my timelapse construction movie has been viewed over 25,000 times. That is enough to motivate me to start getting more of my timelapse movies online. Here is a link to my YouTube page, and below is another construction video that shows some cranes dancing around:
