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Driving New York to San Francisco

17 points by drusenko 19y ago

drusenko 19y ago
Although the trip was from New York to San Francisco, I ended up buying the camera and started taking pictures in State College, PA. I used 3 circle stickers on the roof of my car to mark the position for a tripod, and kept the camera attached to the tripod the whole way. I also ended up getting very good at pacing out the same spot in the front of the car :) I ended up stopping about once every 40 miles or so, although I did some night driving and there was a fair bit of rain, so I wasn't able to get 100% of the pictures taken. The parts where I took pictures of me jumping were in Nevada, absolutely gorgeous setting.
- gibsonf1 19y ago
  Nice - fun to watch.
tlrobinson 19y ago
Cool, on my drive from Seattle to San Diego last summer I had just gotten an auto power cord for my laptop, so I decided to make use of it. I recorded one frame every 30 seconds of the entire drive: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY
- greendestiny 19y ago
  Nice. Seems to be a bit of a genre on youtube, here's a nicely done one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxCUlvEkQDg&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxCUlvEkQDg&feature=related
  - tlrobinson 19y ago
    Excellent! Way better than mine.
- icky 19y ago
  If you had USB GPS receiver, you could have stamped each frame with lat/long, and later overlaid a map with a path that showed your progress onto the video...
immad 19y ago
wow, didn't expect that to be good but it was. I like the bit where you are flying in the air with the mountain in the background :)
fake 19y ago
I plan to do this in June (moving home to SF after graduation). My video will show me getting laid in every state I visit. We'll see who gets more views.
manvsmachine 19y ago
cool, but I was really hoping for a cannonball run attempt...
tokipin 19y ago
oh dear. this brings back painful memories. a couple years ago i drove from cali to illinois. starting out it was all nice and beautiful in cali. all this lush green and drizzling rain. then i crossed the mountains into nevada. well everything went to shit there and it never got better. 3 days of dry, repetitive terrain in short, if you live in california, stay there
- drusenko 19y ago
  i was quite impressed with nevada, not so much with wyoming: got stranded there for 3 days due to a total white out, and thought i was going to end up in the ditch for sure. turns out that traveling 80 in early January isn't the best of ideas.

17 points by drusenko 19y ago

Although the trip was from New York to San Francisco, I ended up buying the camera and started taking pictures in State College, PA. I used 3 circle stickers on the roof of my car to mark the position for a tripod, and kept the camera attached to the tripod the whole way. I also ended up getting very good at pacing out the same spot in the front of the car :) I ended up stopping about once every 40 miles or so, although I did some night driving and there was a fair bit of rain, so I wasn't able to get 100% of the pictures taken. The parts where I took pictures of me jumping were in Nevada, absolutely gorgeous setting.

gibsonf1 19y ago
Nice - fun to watch.

tlrobinson 19y ago

Cool, on my drive from Seattle to San Diego last summer I had just gotten an auto power cord for my laptop, so I decided to make use of it. I recorded one frame every 30 seconds of the entire drive: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY

greendestiny 19y ago
Nice. Seems to be a bit of a genre on youtube, here's a nicely done one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxCUlvEkQDg&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxCUlvEkQDg&feature=related
- tlrobinson 19y ago
  Excellent! Way better than mine.
icky 19y ago
If you had USB GPS receiver, you could have stamped each frame with lat/long, and later overlaid a map with a path that showed your progress onto the video...

immad 19y ago

wow, didn't expect that to be good but it was. I like the bit where you are flying in the air with the mountain in the background :)

fake 19y ago

I plan to do this in June (moving home to SF after graduation). My video will show me getting laid in every state I visit. We'll see who gets more views.

manvsmachine 19y ago

cool, but I was really hoping for a cannonball run attempt...

tokipin 19y ago

oh dear. this brings back painful memories. a couple years ago i drove from cali to illinois. starting out it was all nice and beautiful in cali. all this lush green and drizzling rain. then i crossed the mountains into nevada. well everything went to shit there and it never got better. 3 days of dry, repetitive terrain in short, if you live in california, stay there

drusenko 19y ago
i was quite impressed with nevada, not so much with wyoming: got stranded there for 3 days due to a total white out, and thought i was going to end up in the ditch for sure. turns out that traveling 80 in early January isn't the best of ideas.