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Six years ago I took a series of time-lapse photos in the oasis of Tozeur, Tunisia of the moon rising through the date palms. Now that I am using VirtualDub, I can finally bring the video to life. As you might be able to tell, there is a small change of frame about halfway through. This was in the early days of me figuring out time-lapse photography.
After my successful experiment with time-lapse photography the other day and the extended battery pack I built last night, I decided to test out shooting a time-lapse from my office window. Thus, I produced the above time-lapse. Not the most interesting scene in the world but it’s a start. I set my camera to take a photo ever 15 seconds for about 150 frames. Using the Canon RemoteCapture software installed on a Windows XP Virtual Machine, I drove the intervalometer at that faster speed. Next time I think I will reduce the resolution of the images so it doesn’t take up so much space on my hard drive before I process them into a video.
So… what should I do a time-lapse of next? My Roomba frolicking in my apartment? Meal time at the fraternity? Clouds rolling through campus? Traffic outside my apartment? My office-mates working in the lab?
Yesterday Christy and I went up to Chip Ross Park to watch the rise of the machines. You see, according to one timeline from the Terminator franchise, last night at 8:11pm, Skynet came online. Shortly thereafter, the missiles would start to fly followed by terminator robots.
We found a good vantage point to watch the nukes hit Eugene. Corvallis being a rather small place, we assumed that no nukes would fall close enough to matter initially.
Night over Corvallis. Judgment Day never came. The Connor family must have interfered with the timeline yet again. How long do we have to wait to salute our robotic overlords?
