33 miles in 2.5 minutes (Chilly Hilly 2010)

My obsession with time-lapse film continues.

This morning, thousands of cyclists from around the United States came to ride the 33 mile loop around Bainbridge Island known as the Chilly Hilly.  I got a few hours of filming in before church, then grabbed Dylan after church for a few more hours of filming while Jill rested.

My favorite shot is featured in the video thumbnail: hundreds of cyclists on Baker Hill Road at once, weaving past each other in accelerated time.  The scale of the cyclists is insect-like when viewing all of Baker Hill at once.

Music by Chopin and Prokofiev.  Photography by Garrett Gibbons.

Choose Your Own Adventure (2005)

I dug this classic out of the archives and remastered it in glorious Standard Definition!

The short story on this film is that this is what happens when a bunch of my cousins get together with a cheap Sony Handycam and no money or professional equipment: we make magic happen.  This 20-minute glory boat was filmed in an afternoon and an evening on Bainbridge Island.

It was first edited when Jill and I started dating in 2005, so suffice to say I was too busy running around and having fun with her to put the final levels of TLC that such a film deserves. Here it is in its intended glory.