ZGecko

The school year is almost over.
A few more assignments and meetings, and then it is “pack and go”.
Just a year ago I would not even be able to imagine where I will be at this time.
Somehow last 2 years have been like that.
And the best part is the open road ahead.
Literally.

Follow the Stephan Challenge and his blog  I should ride, and film along.

Needless to say I am psyched.
It is too much to even describe in a time crunch.
And I still need to finish my school work and pack before I can rejoin them.

In the meantime, I made a map, to help me with the trip destinations.
Well Google does not even map that many stops for driving directions.
So I have it in 2 parts
The Stephan Challenge route part 2
and
The Stephan Challenge route last part

I overlaid the two maps to see the route with all remaining planned stops.
The crucial word here is “planned”.
I should be joining them somewhere between Arizona/New Mexico border.

Have a great summer and check the Stephan Challenge blog.

Did I ever mention how I like the school? And the best part: the Teachers.

We had a project to make audio-scope, and I requested micro-dolly so that I get to play with it. Gianna was so awesome she approved it, but she was adamant that I can not get a jib for this project. That would have been fun! I guess I need to make up some project where I need jib.

Alan, my friend, built his own plane and let me film it. Not only that, he tended to the camera while I did the “acting”, sound and micro-dolly shots. There were couple of micro-dolly shots but audioscope can be only 1 min long, so I could not use them all in the final version. But I had great time practicing!

There are at least 2 major mistakes here, but I kind of like how it turned out.

This is supposed to be an audio-scope. It has 3 versions: just sound no music( just listen to this version), sound with music(listen to the next one), and sound with music and video. Anyway I rented a micro-dolly to play with audio, why not? Micro-dolly was one of the most fun parts, right after the fact that I actually got to “play” with the real plane.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

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