Beer Run

Greg and Jef in Ray's Place Campground in West Virginia on a hot summer day. You won't see Greg or Jef, but you will see lots of heavenly beer bottles and good Clean Living and stop-frame animation. Dedicated to the GSPs. See you next year. Don't forget to play BAG.

This is actually a few hundred photos hand-edited with the help of some software I mostly wrote for making time-lapse movies on pumpkincam.net. My brother Greg and I took all of the pictures while the campground was quiet on a hot humid day in July (man, we were sweating). I ran into some difficulties with frame registration because we didn't have any tripod with us (it's amazing what duct tape can do though). I need to give thanks to David Hilvert for helping me solve that problem. I was aware he was working on a program to combine mulitple hand-held photos into one high quality photo. I didn't need the high-quality, but I did need the frame registration. I contacted David and explained what I needed, and he sent me back an alpha version of his program with the option I needed. Here's the irony: the name of his program is "ale!".

There are low-tech special-effects galore in this vid. I hope it inspires you to make your own stop-frame.

Thanks to Ray. He has the best campground in West Virginia. See him in Hico, visit rayscampground.com

Finally thanks to Clean Living. They perform the song you hear. I did get permission to use it in this video - I contacted one of them a few years ago by email, and he said "go for it, man". It's the perfect song for this fun.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• timelapse
• gsp
• ale
• heaven
• beer
• clean
• living
• bottle
• animation

[HartPreacher]

Wow... How disappointing. Way to ruin your Testimony Guys. You're leading so many people astray.

[aguy59]

Thats the kind of film that warms my heart

[evilgoatsnroses]

good timess....

[flipzout100]

OMG that was funny. I also got a kick out of the are you still reading this in the credits.

[cougariver23]

LOL

[mywootgarden]

fun vid! lol i thought of something eles when i read beer run. :) great song!