30 Seconds

The time lapse is making its return. This was shot from outside my bedroom window today.

Drawing K

This morning saw me getting rolling on my final version of a treehouse drawing I'm doing for one of my classes. I spent about an hour lightly laying in guide lines for my building and platform. I had to stop, though, because I needed time to think about where to put the tree. I'm about to get back to work. Hopefully, buy the end of this afternoon, I'll have the bulk of it laid out and I'll be able to start darkening lines and committing my drawing to the paper.

If you notice, on the iPad, occasionally a photograph of the treehouse I drew on newsprint pops up to use as a reference. That's been quite helpful so far, actually. I'm glad I thought to snap a photo of it.

A Star Is Born, Mash Style

For one of my classes, I have to create an original star that adheres to the guidelines of the project. Earlier this week, I asked a few people which of the above stars they preferred, the left one or the right one. Based on feedback, I went with the one on the left. The time lapse video below shows me creating the final version of the star for my project.

Great Reno Balloon Race in Time Lapse

My attempt at time lapsing the balloons yesterday failed. I had to reformat the camera's memory stick on a Windows machine (oh....the horror, I know). This morning, I had the camera pointed in the wrong(ish) direction. I aimed it for where the balloons had drifted on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings, but the wind pattern was different today. Part way through the video, I repositioned the camera but I missed the rising of the balloons. Oh well...there's always next year!

City of Reno in My Backyard

Two guys from the City of Reno came around to the house this afternoon to do something with the sewer line (accessible via the manhole in the backyard by the fence). Skeena barked at them like a good little doggie and I time lapsed the whole thing with the Brinno TLC.

Not Quite What I Was Looking For

I tried making a time lapse while I was out hiking yesterday off of Carson Pass. I thought I had the Brinno set up to record the parking lot, but, obviously, I need a bit more practise with positioning.

K Makes Cookies in Front of the Brinno TLC

I made two kinds of cookies yesterday for the good folk over in Patagonia's mail order department (oatmeal chocolate chip and super fudgy white chocolate chip cookies....both kinds nearly too delicious to share!). I set up the time lapse camera on some empty boxes stacked on a chair in the living room. Unfortunately, I should have placed the camera further back in the room so I could have captured the area where the oven is in the field of view.

What I really need to do is to figure out how to strap the thing to my body or to a backpack so I can let the camera do its thing while I'm out hiking.