Revision B(roken)

On Saturday I took the rollcage out for a spin, out in Albany Village. On the first run the screw wasn't tight enough and the camera started unscrewing as it rolled, I remedied this by further tightening till the base plate was smooshing the base of my camera. two more runs down the same part one involving stairs and me and my assistant Chris were ready for a big roll. and released it for a total of ten seconds till the base plate broke of from the support bar causing a tumbling camera, luckily the lens took the brunt of the force and decided to diversify in to ground excavation. with only light scratches to Mr cammy (I wasn't intending on reselling it anyway) the spot welds were only light and partial. On Revision C I'm going to increase the power to make a more complete weld and maybe a support bar, so if the base plate does dislodge its more of a happy trampoline than a masochistic camera shotput of doom. looking through the footage there is somewhat awesome stills and it has a fluid like appearance when slowly dragging the playhead through it which is giving me ideas for the end video that I will have in a few weeks. still very early in the project. but the signs are looking good. Ive already started coming up with ideas for how to dictate the conception of my 2-3 minute video. but it will probably be exponentially different than my current grasp of it.

What brought me to this point of haphazardly endangering my beloved camera by hurtling it down gradients in a steel cage of doom. is it how I love skiing straight downhill for the exihilaration of speed, the blurry vision you get when you do a backflip on a trampoline, my odd fixation with katamari. or the thrill of not being in complete control of something and it being a fine balance between beauty and the destruction it can create.