There's a very cool video time lapse video of the Reno Balloon Races on the front page of You Tube this morning. Put up by a user called tlapse, the video is time-lapse photography of what appears to be Sunday's race. With over 110,000 views, ~700 comments and a 4.5 star rating, this is a Reno marketer's dream come true. Somebody give this man a free weekend at the Siena!
The Reno Balloon Races is one of Reno's best events...not that we have a shortage of them. You simply can't go wrong with hundreds of brightly colored balloons and kids. (Side note: the front cover of this week's Business Week Magazine is hot air balloons. Josh & Robert blog about it here.)
While we as a family didn't make it to dawn patrol this year (getting up at 5am on a Sunday is hard!!!), we made it there in time to watch the whole gaggle go off while we kicked back and drank hot chocolate and coffee.
The boys and I enjoying some hot chocolate at the Reno Balloon Races.
That is a sweet video. You should link to it :P
Posted by: Josh Kenzer | September 14, 2006 at 09:48 AM
I did. But in case you missed the first sentence, here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyCcjbrWOM
Posted by: David LaPlante | September 14, 2006 at 10:01 AM
Thanks. I obviously posted my comment, then you changed your post!
Posted by: Josh Kenzer | September 14, 2006 at 10:07 AM
One must not comment in haste ;-)
Check out the software that the guy used to make this with: http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/Product_gbt.aspx
It's for Canon digital cameras. Gonna have to get me some of that.
Posted by: David LaPlante | September 14, 2006 at 10:14 AM
That is sweet. Let me know when you get it so we can play with it. Maybe we can get an old cheap laptop to setup somewhere.
Posted by: Josh Kenzer | September 14, 2006 at 12:33 PM