While looking through my camera's memory card for clips and images to use for my video documenting my work on The Sketchbook Project, I came across some old pictures from when I went to the Balloon Fiesta back in October. I had forgotten all about the photographs I took and I had a lovely time looking back through them all this afternoon. A fair amount of my favorites were pictures that compiled into bits of stop-motion animations, so I decided I would put together a short little video of my favorite images and animation sequences.
Now, the moving images of this video are actually individual photographs, shot continuously at a rapid pace, then put onto my computer and into a sequence, played back at 8 frames per second. The other photographs, the still ones, are each set at around 2.3 seconds.
The title for this post, "gold teeth and a curse for this town" is the first line from the song New Slang by The Shins, which is also the song that I chose for the video. This band is a favorite of mine, and I am greatly looking forward to their new album coming out in March. This song is one that I heard back in 2007, and it has been in many playlists of mine since. Now, before this blog post becomes one of me describing my love for The Shins (which definitely could happen), I wanted to explain that this song reminds me of home, therefore I thought it would be very fitting for a video about the Balloon Fiesta, which I have witnessed almost every year.
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