Exit 2008: Episode 1 - Sundown Sunday
- By Fredrick
In the spirit of adventure, Alexandra Flynn, Miranda Austin, and myself all set out last Sunday night on a journey to spend New Years Eve in Athens, GA. The plan was simple enough; leave Sunday night after I got out of work and drive till my eyes wouldn't stay open. From there we would continue to Athens where we'd stay at the Econo-Lodge (or perhaps the Red Roof Inn, which an Athens Resident/Gas Station Attendant told me was a good choice).
This trip was originally intended to be filmed solely with my silly little Aiptek camera, but that morning I found that it had quit working. Not wanting to go without, we went to Best Buy and bought a new Sony Handycam with a built in hard drive and all that. When I got home and went to steal the SD card from the Aiptek, I was shocked to find that it decided to work. We didn't have time to go back to Best Buy, so we have two cameras now. I cant explain why the upload has those strange lines all over it...
Altogether I'm not very satisfied with this episode, we didn't have a whole lot of shots to choose from; it was late and for a lot of this part Alex and Mira were both asleep, or the shots we got just didn't turn out because it was dark. From here on out, though, it gets better. I guess I just wanted to get this one out of the way and move on. You all get the point - it was late and I drove for six and a half hours on an interstate.
I would have liked to have gotten more shots of our escape from New York - driving through a deserted Canal Street in the middle of the night was really something special. There was also the moment we came down the hill and the Newark lights were all laid out like the night sky was asleep on the ground. No on caught that one.
Music by Her Space Holiday.
