transcontinental timelapse

by: Phillip Barron - September 10th, 2008   5 Comments

I work in a place that hosts academics for a fellowship year, so each summer the residential fellows have to return home (sometimes to their dismay at having to leave the Center). Paul Werth, one of last year’s Fellows, and I talked a lot about video while he was here. We discovered a shared love of time lapse videography, and I showed him some of the new digial tools available for making those beautiful paroxysms of cinema. He decided to use the drive home, from North Carolina to Nevada, as a test.

I’d say it went well; he emailed me this video yesterday.


Transcontinental Trip: Carolina to Vegas from Paul Werth on Vimeo.

 
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  • http://www.riverbottleblues.com mike

    great now I want to take a road trip. Cool video!

  • http://archerpelican.typepad.com Phil

    Excellent! By coincidence, I also made the NC to Las Vegas road trip very recently (left Hillsborough on 15 July and arrived Las Vegas 1 Sep). Then continued to San Francisco where I am now, coincidentally, occasionally dining with Dependable Erection and the Crone Report.

    A very nice travel writer once recommended traveling by land and daytime as much as possible, to “feel” and see the travel happening, instead of doing the space and time warp thing that happens in an airplane at night. Of course on bicycle you will do this very well, compared to a car. But I digress.

    The timelapse thing is great — hooray for your friend for doing it. And hooray for the place I’m guessing you work at. I think it’s very cool and miss the public radio interviews they used to do back in the late 80s.

  • nicomachus

    Hey Phil,

    Funny that you should mention the old radio show… I’m right now coordinating a collaborative effort between UNC, RENCI, and the NHC to digitize all of the analog production masters of that show. We won’t announce it until we’re closer to having something to show, but it’s coming back… in the digital age.

    I agree about daytime/ground travel. The train is my favorite for long distance; anytime I go up the east coast, I prefer to take Amtrak over flying. I don’t like to fly unless I have to go really far — like Argentina.

  • http://www.thechestpains.blogspot.com Greg Barbera

    that was awesome.

    anybody know who the music artist was?

  • nicomachus

    Hey Greg,

    Paul says the music is “Ein Elephant für Dich” by Wir Sind Helden.