SCENERY - Austin

Take a fast paced timelapse tour of Austin, the fastest growing city in the United States. Filmed in 2016 and 2017, "SCENERY - Austin" is an independently funded and solo-produced timelapse and hyperlapse project exploring the growing skyline of the flourishing capital of the Lone Star State.

"SCENERY - Austin" is a compilation of highlights from 200+ hours of shooting and 600+ hours of post-production. All motion control was performed manually with hyperlapse techniques (for long-run scenes) or by leveraging my own custom designed and manufactured digital motion control systems (for the short-run scenes).

Music is courtesy of Le Nonsense (soundcloud.com/lenonsensebeats).

Happy New Year!

This year I shot the fireworks from Zilker Park on the downward slope of the Great Lawn. Half the park was still closed due to Trail of Lights that had ended a week earlier but I was able to shoot over the fence, and the foreground was pretty dark anyway.

The smoke from the fireworks this year was particularly severe, compounded by a breeze that was very slow and intermittent out of the south so it lingered in pockets all over the north side of town for hours. Driving and walking around town afterward took a toll on my lungs and sinuses that I'm still feeling 36 hours later! I felt like I was in the Far Harbor DLC for Fallout 4, where random clouds of radioactive fog drift all over the map and damage your character.