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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I found this vintage Camel cigarette ad on Archive.org that I thought might bring a smile to your face as Christmas approaches. Cigarette ads are kind of fascinating to watch anyway, but the thought of giving them as a Christmas gift? Smokers are easy to shop for! Wow.
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:
My last post of the video of Rian eating bugs for Halloween is getting good reactions from people so I thought maybe you would want to learn how to make chocolate covered larva for your kids. Here is a tutorial I saw on YouTube that gives you all the juicy details…
Before we went trick-or-treating I had a special chocolate-covered treat for my son, Rian. He made it through a cricket and a larva before… well… see for yourself. Here is a YouTube video:
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:
