I took a look out of my windows and it was crazy outside. The storm was heading straight south, I face north. I decided to take some photos and make a few movies.

I set up my nice camera to take long exposures of the sky… and with my other camera I filmed a movie.

The first clip I posted was of me filming once it started to rain. I zoomed in to see if I could get a better view of the rain coming down. To my surprise a giant bolt of lightning hit the roof about 50 feet from where I was filming. It was crazy loud and totally freaked me out. It happens at about the 14 second mark.

The second is a movie made from the time lapse photos and stitched them together.

This was not the craziest storm I have seen since I have lived here, but it was the closest lightning strike I have seen in a while. Last year my sister was over and we were making her wedding invitations when my biz partner called me and told me there was a tornado headed towards the city. We got out of the office and looked out side and it was just waves of rain. The roof next door had whitecaps on it. My entire wall was covered with water. The windows and doors were pulsating with the wind. I thought they were going to blow inward. We ended up going to the bunker like basement of the building that is attached and waited for it to pass over. There were others down there as well. When it was over we called our mom and told her we were alive. That may have been the worst storm I have seen.

Well the other day Google released Picasa version 3 which has a pretty sweet feature, which allows you to dump a bunch of photos into a movie… I thought this was cool but played with it, and could not get it anywhere fast enough to where I wanted. Then Graywolf told me about the timelapse setting and I was "off to the races".

It took me a few attempts to get things right, and I still think a few parts are off… mainly the beginning and end… but it is a start.

I searched around the interweb and found pretty much free public use music at Mus Open. So I added that, adjusted the frames per second in Picassa, and exported it when it was a good length.

I have roughly 21,000 other digital photos spanning from 1998 to the present, and would like to do something with all of them… so if nothing else this is a start.

You can either watch it in the right hand column or directly on youtube by following this link, or on VIMEO (recommended) with this link.

Let me know what you think.

A bunch of my shit got damaged…

Then I had some talks about taxes.

I had to go to the dentist. This is my first visit since the mouth bling.

Then I watched the cubs lose. I hate sports, but the cubs have a new japanese baseball player who kicked ass. The brewers looked like a bunch of out of shape bitches on the field, yet they still won. Hahahahaha. Pull up your pants fatty. And this is coming from a guy who could gain a bit from running around the bases.

I talked to Rae a bit via bb and that was good! I went on my deck and took a few fun pics. It was nice out. I still need to decide what grill I should buy. Same goes for the patio furniture.

I spoke that day, and dreaded doing so…I think I did a terrible job, did not get to answer any questions and feel my whole presence on that panel was done poorly.

Well after I spoke a certain Rene from Spain bought me a beer, then one EliteWeb got me a shot of Bacardi 151 and another beer… wow, the liquir was filling my empty stomach with warmth. Well in the next hour the party was starting and I needed to drop my computer off at the Hotel, so did Jenn. So a few of headed over there and planned to get dinner on the way to the party…then we heard the news the party was going to have food as well as booze!

We arrive for the party, go upstairs, and start drinking…no food in site…I am pretty sure I performed one of my famous walking blackous throughout this event as I have hundreds of brilliant pictures. It would seem that the booze put george to sleep and werty took his place, and of course who does not love werty, especially when he is holding a camera…at some point the liquir took werty out and the evil doctor wertrose had to take over the camera… I heard later on that he was a naughty boy, and one look at the pictures proves that…

Apparently all three of us made it to another party after this and were in rare form…there had to have been 2-3 brain cells working, one for breathing, one for drinking, and for standing up. I do not remember any of this event but I guess I was there for a while… If I would have eaten something I would have rememeber to take pictures at the second party…next time I will keep some tater tots in my pocket like Napoleon Dynamite.

The next day I woke from complete darkness, completely naked! I hear you have to do this at least once while you are down in New Orleans, luckily I was in the hotel room, and my girlfriend was the one next to me. Hahahaha. I am worthless…except for marathon drinking and taking photos.

New Orleans was gross, it smelled like vomit and was like 98 degrees with 100% humidity. UH-MAZING. Some good food down there and way too much booze.

I was glad I went and got to hang out with lots of the webmasterworld crew.

Pictures of New Orleans Pubcon can be found here, sorry lamers and spiders, but it is password protected. Shoot me a sticky if you want access. Chances are there is a picture of you doing a "tooter shooter" with one of the many waitresses at the party.

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