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Nelson to Ainsworth Hot Springs in Five Minutes

clinton waller — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:42:46 +0000

Put on your helmet and get ready for an epic trip from Nelson BC to Ainsworth Hot Springs in five minutes!

In this video you will get to see Baker Street, the Orange Bridge, the North Shore, Six Mile, Balfour, Coffee Creek Bridge, and the famous Ainsworth Hot Springs..

Safety note: this video is sped up using post edit techniques.. please don’t actually try to drive so fast or you might have an incident.

Technical note: looks like H.264 compression gets blocky at higher speeds.

Nelson BC Pedestrian Tunnel under Highway to Rosemont

clinton waller — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:02:15 +0000

This secret passage is also known as “the Tunnel”..

We all come to points in our lives where we find ourselves going through hard times. In the darkest hours, it can be hard to hold on to hope.. so this movie is dedicated to “the Light at the End of the Tunnel”. There’s a crown chakra binaural beat frequency in the audio soundtrack.. maybe it uplifts the thoughts?

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil” Psalm 23:4

ps.. this is my first self-hosted video and a significant technical milestone.

Crystal Cave Spelunking with an InfraRed Camera

clinton waller — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:21:11 +0000

There is a secret cave in the back yard of Nelson BC known to the local hippies as the Crystal Cave..

Access to the Crystal Cave is a difficult hike over mountainous terrain but the destination is truly rewarding. Chunks of crushed white quartz crystal lay sparkling in pure mountain spring water. An amazing variety of plant life resides in the canyon leading up to the cave.

The crystal cave itself has a narrow opening you must scramble through on all fours, but once inside an adult can stand at full height in most places. The cave forms a large L shape as it cuts into the depths of the mountain.

At the first bend there is an extra chamber with a treasure chest full of pennies, empty beer cans, and a burned out deck of playing cards. After passing the bend the cave becomes pitch black and silent. This second corridor continues for several tens of metres and then dead ends. My infrared camera picked up some interesting cave paintings on the crystalline rocks inside the very back of the cave.

There was a large flat black rock on the cave floor which made a perfect meditation seat. The silence was so deep I could hear my ears ringing. After staring into the blackness for an eternity, I could just barely make out a reflection of daylight on the far wall of the cave back at the bend where the chambers were located.

If you’re in to meditation and like to face fears of claustrophobia, darkness, loneliness, rats, spiders, falling rocks — MORTALITY — then perhaps an afternoon of meditation in the crystal cave is the perfect idea! I certainly felt taller on the inside after facing these fears in myself.

Crazy Shaman Hikes the Pulpit Rock Trail in Nelson BC Canada (deep delta binaural)

clinton waller — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:54:15 +0000

I have climbed the Pulpit Rock and I have no sermon for you.

Technical Notes:

I shot these photos using a Nikon D5000 and a zoom lens. Selected photos were shined up and exported as an origami photo slideshow using Aperture 3.

Next I created a simple harmony chord track with a few little twists using GarageBand 11 and an M-AUDIO KeyRig 49. I exported my audio creation at CD quality to generate an .aif file.

iMovie 11 was used to merge the Aperture 3 photo slideshow, GarageBand 11 .aif audio track, and a tri-thalmic binaural beat frequency, said to stimulate the third eye.

The red headphones are new.. I finally found a good stock image and purchased some reprint rights and I feel good about this — supporting artists and keeping copyright content legit. I’ll let you wonder how I made that video effect but will let you know it can be done using only iMovie 11 and Mac OSX Snow Leopard’s Preview program.

May you be blessed..

Nelson Road Kings Classic Car Parade on Baker Street

clinton waller — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:21:45 +0000

Here’s a video of the Nelson Road Kings on parade down Baker Street as part of their Queen City Cruise:

All I can say is: “wow” — what an awesome collection of people and cars!

Lots of Corvettes, classic 60′s muscle cars, chevy, model T, hotrods, Porsche, BMW, Pick-up Trucks — hope you enjoy this collection of classic cars.

Gratitude to the Nelson Road Kings.

Tourist Visits the Town of Trail in British Columbia

clinton waller — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:30:10 +0000

I went for a random road trip on Sunday and ended up in Trail BC for my first time ever — I guess that makes me a tourist! Here’s what I saw..

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Trail BC is home to the largest non-ferrous lead and zinc smelter in the world!

These pictures were taken using a Nikon D5000 still camera and edited into this photo slideshow using Aperture 3. The choppy bridge video framing the photos was shot using an iPhone 4 and edited into the slideshow using iMovie 11.

High resolution photo reprint rights available on request

Historic Kerr Building Demolished in Nelson BC Canada

clinton waller — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:51:56 +0000

Here are two views of the historical Kerr stone building being demolished by an excavator. Burned out floors and assorted rubble collapse to the ground crashing over broken bricks and stone.

Technical Notes:

This video was shot “on-the-fly” using an iPhone4 and edited using iMovie ’11.

There is about 2:22 of footage — royalty rights can be obtained from 1$/sec