Traveling Cargopants

A friend sent me to a link of some incredible still-motion videos (including one of the volcano in Iceland). This guy has a really cool technique where his camera seems to crawl across the ground while capturing still-motion frames. Based on how clear the pictures are, I’m fairly certain he runs his film through some sort processing tool that renders the frames using something like the HDR technique which allows you to see all ranges of lighting and color side by side in a photograph or film (normal cameras usually tend to focus on either the light or dark objects but not both).

The soundtrack to one of his videos contained two songs by a band named Thrice who I’m totally digging on right now. One thing I really respect about them is that they have such variety in their music — everything from chill and melodic to alt rock to metal. Since they live somewhere in California, I’m definitely going to make it a point to see them in concert while I’m traveling the west coast.

I’m still listening to their stuff, but so far here are a few of my favorites. These songs are from the albums The Alchemy Index Vol. 1 & 2 and Vheissu.