I shamed myself into bringing the camera and tripod with me yesterday, and ventured out at lunch to take some 24p video.  I haven’t reviewed the game film yet but I’m fairly certain I should eject the memory card and shove it directly into our paper shredder.  So we won’t be seeing that.  Maybe I’ll have more luck this weekend!

Just swung by Philip Bloom’s site again.  He’s got a review up for some motorized dolly and a video to go along with it.  There are actually some good tidbits in there for doing timelapses that I will use to press my advantage.  And I appreciated the motorized dolly review in general as well, but there’s absolutely no way I’m ever going to own, a fuckin, joystick controlled motorized dolly any time.  Ever.  There’s too much stuff out there to buy and it all starts at $400 for bare bones and continues bravely onward to $∞.  I have seen some creative dudes build rails and dolly rigs from stuff they bought at Home Depot and I am totally down with that.  Colin and I visited the plumbing department once upon a time in college to build… some….. thing .  So you know, I’m cool with the DIY.  But I don’t have the time or motivation for that these days.

Raw talent, vision and creativity are the answers 99% of the time but at some point having the right tools and the skills to use them is important.  True, I’ve got the camera and I have one sweet lens and 24p and at one point I really felt like I had arrived.  Nice to be here, good to see you!  Giving folks the high five.  Now I am the master.  But I’ve climbed up this tiny hill and I’m about to do the Rocky dance and now I just see endless craggy peaks ahead of me.

So I do have to sort of step back and think about what’s reasonable given the fact that I am an amateur and a light hobbyist, and try to be content with the good stuff that I do have.  Rome wasn’t built in a day.  But, dear reader, if you are in a bind about what to get me for World Health Day next month (4/7) – B&H gift cards ya’ll!  Make it rain.  Ah yeah.

And now on with the show.

I have to say, by the way, that I’ve watched several of his other tutorial videos today, as well as an unrelated podcast yesterday, and I’m quickly becoming a huge fan of picking out the audible iPhone alerts going on the backgrounds of these things.  Emails, texts, vibrations.  When an iPhone is resting on a surface and it vibrates, you know it’s an iPhone.  It sounds like no other.