Comments on: Sixty Minutes In The Life Of Death

By: kaleb

kaleb — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:01:52 +0000

I much prefer the cumulo video—so much less destructive in that mode.

the billboard reminds me of staying at a friend’s house—the billboard was 2 miles away was blinking so brightly it lit the room I was sleeping in.

there is a billboard on hwy 101 in NorCal outside of IKEA that had to be turned down to something like 23% because it was blinding people off the road.

By: Clicklist: Cycling hazards | green LA girl

Clicklist: Cycling hazards | green LA girl — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:26:19 +0000

[...] Watch local cyclist Will Campbell’s video of the Station Fire, which condenses an hour of smoke down to 4 minutes: “with the spewing white plumes that [...]

By: philpalm

philpalm — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:35:12 +0000

On AP they are showing a bicyclist hit by a lawmaker:
http://video.ap.org/?f=wasee&pid=zBESVJbpqugODiUM8uyQDq7Bygc7_isC

By: Will Campbell

Will Campbell — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:04:53 +0000

Good eyes, Kaleb! Indeed that deathlessly flashing rectangle you’ve found in the center of the frame is the electronic billboard that looms over Spaceland on Silver Lake Boulevard.

For a little more drama I’d invite you to check out this other timelapse of stormclouds I made two years ago from the same spot. If nothing else it provides something of a before/after comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6hkCxm9-o

By: Kaleb

Kaleb — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:59:47 +0000

I’ve seen several videos and pictures of the fires, yours, as you said is not dramatic, but it does give us an almost ethereal sense that this is just nature . You are so right at how sad this is to watch for those of us who grew up looking at those mountains.

One question—what is that flashing rectangle of white-ish light near the center of the screen a ways off? Flashing ad board? Or? If it were inconsistent, I’d have said reflection of the sun, but it is pretty consistent thru the video.