LA Night Ride Film

Whenever the various machines in my hotel room cooperate and shift digital digital tonnage from motherboard to motherboard a film will appear below words that I'm too tired to write. A concept piece, if you like. A lone bicyclist, stranger in an unfamiliar city, rides six miles to dinner, helmet mounted camera set to shoot one second every five.  There were several hundred shots, and I sifted through and picked out a few hundred and experimented with putting them together using Final Cut Pro, lengthening some shots and zooming in on others and setting the 3-minute result to a beautiful little piece by Zoogz Rift called Imaginary Numbers.

Truth be told, I am uncertain as to how I feel about the overall piece.  Does it succeed in evoking a mood, in capturing moments in time? Or is it jarring,  three minutes of your life that you could have found better use for? If a failure, I could say it's because the Contour Roam camera does not do it's best work at night, or that prior to three days ago I'd never used Final Cut Pro, and still barely know my way around the program. But that'd be a cop-out, wouldn't it?

It's a poor carpenter indeed who blames his tools.


Music Courtesy of the estate of Zoogz Rift - Check out more of Zoogz' amazing work by clicking here, and join his Facebook Page.