2011 DCC - "CaliRed" Presents - Episode 1 - "The Walk"

[CaliRed]

As I get time, I am going to be uploading some various videos of my experience at the 2011 Derby City Classic. Over the next few months, I am going to be spending a lot of time editing all my footage, in order to put together the project I went there to do.

I will be posting some other interesting videos over the next several days/weeks/months of other things about the Derby.

Episode 1 is a video addressing the walk from the hotel to the tournament room. It has me walking and also me riding the shuttle, to compare the two. I really apologize for the bouncy video when I was walking, but just hang with it for a few minutes until you get to me riding the shuttle and it's much better.

All of my video was filmed in HD 1920 x 1080 progressive 60 frames a second at about a 28,000 bitrate. I am choosing Vimeo to upload and will see how that goes. I have to re-encode down to 1280 x 720 at 30 frames a second interlaced at about a 5,000 bitrate. Total size of original files were around 1,000 mb and the end result was about 300 mb.

So quite a bit is lost, but that's how streaming works

Feel free to click on the full screen button just to the left of Vimeo logo.

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Episode 1 - "The Walk" A video showing the walk from the hotel to the Tournament. It also shows the same route, but this time taking the shuttle. A walk takes 3 mins, a shuttle ride takes 1:45.
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[gulfportdoc]

Nice video, Greg. I recognize every view, every design, and every pulled thread in the carpet on that walk! You must have stepped along pretty briskly to have made it in 3 minutes though. It's more like 5+ for the average guy. Then one has to add on the time from the room to the point where your video started, including the elevator wait.

I will say that this year the shuttle ran more often than it did the last time I was there. They really ought to provide two shuttles, commencing in tandem from each end!

Doc
lazy in
old age

 

[CaliRed]

Nice video, Greg. I recognize every view, every design, and every pulled thread in the carpet on that walk! You must have stepped along pretty briskly to have made it in 3 minutes though. It's more like 5+ for the average guy. Then one has to add on the time from the room to the point where your video started, including the elevator wait.

I will say that this year the shuttle ran more often than it did the last time I was there. They really ought to provide two shuttles, commencing in tandem from each end!

Doc
lazy in
old age

I've been told my whole life that I tend to walk fast. It doesn't seem fast to me, because I have another gear if I want to walk fast. I tell everyone that I guess I walk fast, because of the years of walking thru cornfields when irrigating When you grow up out in the country, you usually got a good amount of distance to walk, doing anything... so walking is not a leisure sport.

 

[gulfportdoc]

I've been told my whole life that I tend to walk fast. It doesn't seem fast to me, because I have another gear if I want to walk fast. I tell everyone that I guess I walk fast, because of the years of walking thru cornfields when irrigating When you grow up out in the country, you usually got a good amount of distance to walk, doing anything... so walking is not a leisure sport.

I've irrigated a few corn fields myself, growing up on a farm in Ohio during the summers. Did a few other things there too...

Doc

 

[Deeman]

Greg,

did you take any still pictures? I seem to remember you doing so and am wondering where to see them.

DeeMan

 

[CaliRed]

Greg,

did you take any still pictures? I seem to remember you doing so and am wondering where to see them.

DeeMan

Why Mr. Deeman, you would go here

http://www.oldpoolhall.com/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=282

 

[sunnyone]

excelsior!

excelsior!

i looked up cinema-verite (a style of filmmaking characterized by realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment.) to be sure i was using the correct phrase to laud 'the walk.'

'the walk' is almost hypnotic in the way it commands attention to that most mundane form of locomotion. it reminds me of a phrase from a book i'm reading -- 'the same river twice' -- where one of the protagonists, a professional filmmaker, says, 'the camera reveals everything except the secret of its indifference.'

now, i've become a fan of pool streams and that phrase about the indifference of the camera is so true. the camera captures every great shot, every savvy safety, the players' joy, angst, agony ... and all along the camera is a third-party, disinterested recorder. the camera doesn't applaud, doesn't scold, doesn't vote.

please review your class notes carefully -- there may be a pop quiz!

teaching is my life,

sunny

 

[Fatboy]

Has anyone figured out why the hotel is 12 miles from the pool tables? those hall's are very expensive to build and heat/cool/maintain. What purpose do they serve? and its about 20 miles from the casino to the hotel, why?

 

[Deeman]

Why Mr. Deeman, you would go here

http://www.oldpoolhall.com/photos/main.php?g2_itemId=282

Greg,

Great work!

DeeMan

 

[SactownTom]

The first few times I took the 'Walk' I told myself that I was Walking all the way and that it would serve as an exercise routine. At least twice a day I took the Walk.

It is a much better walk if you had someone to listen to or talk to. Also I would imagine the walk from the tournament room had its differences... Winning had to make the walk much easier than Losing.

Strangely enough... there wasn't that many people/players in the walk way at any one time that I noticed...

Thanks for the video.. good job my friend.