Click the title of this here post for the medium-sized version, or here for the full-sized one in all it's glory. The higher up you go, the better it looks. You should probably right-click the links and choose "Save As..." so it can download first. Otherwise it may be choppy.
Yes, it's sixteen minutes long. Yes, that's sixteen times longer than most people's attention span. But it's worth it. And I'm not saying that only as the creator, but also as a... client?
My goal was to impart the trip as a complete fluid whole, from getting my bike off it's kickstand to getting into my office so there is very little that is cut out. I recorded continuously from the time I left my apartment until I entered my office building and only cut out those parts that the camera didn't pick up well, like the elevator ride (too dark) and transferring the camera from my bike to my body during the ferry ride and back (too choppy). The rest is just in fast-forward to save time.
It has a fun soundtrack that I hope is enjoyable and entertaining, and probably stuff you're not familiar with. I put some work into it so it shouldn't be too amateurish. So far the part where I'm sitting on a bench eating a breakfast bar in fast-forward is the viewer's favorite.
This is the project I was gathering commute footage for when I got into that fateful collision with lord only knows how many dollars worth of full-body decals and fuel-inefficiency. I'll do another of the trip back home in the near future.
Mr. Nano McHottieface has pre-screened this production and found it enjoyable, remarking that my ass is both "curvaceous like mountain roads" and appears "hard enough to break walnuts on." Whatever that means.
In other news, my bicycle is now in Virginia! Woo! I should have it tomorrow but internally I'm willing it to appear tonight. According to Kaseyface the last town UPS reports it being scanned at is only a few hours away, so that dumb part of all human kind that hopes against hope is telling me my wish will come true. But, that same part also told me I'd be able to smoke cigars at work if I looked cool enough while doing it, and that didn't work out too well.
Hope your weekends were good, I gotta pound some more fix-ed machines out before I head off to purposefully hurt myself in the name of healing.
Adios!
- David
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
- Alfred Hitchcock
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