This coming saturday a week from now, i go and volunteer @ the tour de cure. been doing this since 1995. get up at 5am, get to worlds fair park, volunteer til 5pm then get to shop close it down for day and go home. and sleep lol. will post pics and get as much video as i can.
Cool. Look forward to seeing the photos.
400 cyclists taking off at same time, the return is interesting. our well in shape riders can make the return trip in 4 hours. rode with the uniballer once err lance armstrong. lol. on way to chattanooga. rode downhill mountain road and passed him. course he wtf pwned me and everyone else. lol. this was 1997
I thought they only did the tour de cure in Australia. Good stuff Yamma karma for u
Quote from: slipperymongoose on May 31, 2013, 05:57:12 PM
I thought they only did the tour de cure in Australia. Good stuff Yamma karma for u
afaik every state hgas at least one. rode in many. since riding is no longer an option i work the lawn setting up starting grid, emptying trucks etc. set up food set up the bar etc. ( consuming redbull like nobodies business. lol) then wait til they come back. trying to get my hands on a scanner so i can listen to the ham radio operators and not be caught by surprise again lol.
my office for the day ( pay attn to the D there)
(http://www.gs500.net/gallery/data/500/dayofhell.jpg)
btw will go up inside the sunsphere again this year. and redo this tour video. which last year sucked lol. and get an overhead shot of the whole venue
this was last year. if you see a guy with a bullhorn near the ending and beginning, it was me
Bullhorn eh?
similar to this.
(https://www.audiolinks.com/tek9/images/products/04361.jpg)
been on my feet since 5am this morning. just got back after almost 14 hours at worlds fair park. assembling video witha BETTER sunsphere tour. and NO there are no wigs there. as soon as its done processing, and uploaded ill -post linkie.
cant get moviemaker to work, so heres one of the stills until i figure it out.
(http://www.gs500.net/gallery/data/500/medium/SUNP00071.JPG)
12+ hours condensed (@720p) into 22 minutes processing now. am fearing the upload time
Should only be about 12 hours Yamma
almost 4gb of data. took 3 hours to render, and 95 (minutes) to upload
Geez that's quick. YouTube has gotten good at upload stuff lately
Ehh idk bout quick lol. my net is decent @ 12mb the processing is the biatch ( pc power) the rendering @ 1080 camera is wonky at times think i rendered at 30fps
setting up12/14 tents, full of tables, food vending etc, with enuropathy lol sucks but ill do it as long as able, then ill find another job. told boss lady, "just keep me moving else legs lock up" she did. but damn going 2 blocks with a cargo float sucked donkeyballs ( a wooden cart with wheels. i surfed coming downhill lol