Night Drive Time Lapse

All is quiet. Incredibly quiet. Every project I'm involved with (and there are few) is at some form of a roadblock. I've just barely started writing the second draft of This American Town, which is largely due to my lack of motivation. However, now that fall is rolling around, and I carry an immense disdain for cold temperatures, I'll have more initiative to bundle up in my warm room and get to it.

I'm one of those people who's constantly motivated to start a new project, only to abandon it and finally return sometime later. For example, I'm currently reading three books. In fact, it took me four years to read Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! I would read a large portion of it, lose interest, and return to read another large portion when the interest was renewed.

Presently, I'm reinvigorating my need to get out and shoot some time-lapse photography, which was all I ever wanted to do at the beginning of this year. The same goes for film photography, which lasted about a month. In doing so, I just shot this video of my friend and I taking a little drive about my community. I'd recommend watching it in 720p fullscreen.

Time-lapse is something that has always interested me; I can never get enough. No matter how many times I've seen the same things over and over again, I feel like there's always a small and unique detail worth picking out. I like to watch the needles on the dashboard here, or at the 42-second mark when it seems like we travel backwards for a block or two. Trippy.

I'm a little upset though since my camera sensor is starting to get stuck pixels, which is why you can see some white dots here and there. I'd love to upgrade to a full-frame DSLR sometime, but money is an issue, as it always is. My nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8 fisheye lens, which I believe to be the vital lens for time-lapse photography, is only compatible on the small-frame DSLR's, which means I'd have to buy the nikkor 16mm fisheye lens atop of the full-frame body. In time.

I feel like there's a better way to end this post, but I have no desire to find out. Here's to hoping something interesting pops up that is "blog" worthy. I've already broken my "one-post-per-week" rule by nearly two months.