Faster Than The Speed Of Life

Justin's birthday was last week, so we wanted to go out and celebrate and be awesome in general... so, we did. We hit up The Counter in El Segundo for some "man food" as Justin put it. I'd been to The Counter twice before with not great experiences either time, but this time it was really top notch. Burger was perfect, cooled and built to order. Staff as always was friendly, and naturally Justin was going nuts with his new ShakeIt iPhone app by GSG. It's a snazzy little program that simulates the Polaroid experience on the iPhone (complete with Polaroid-y sound and shake). Check the video on The Gorrilla's blog for a tour. Here are a couple of Justin's pics:

Tough guy

Man food

From there we wanted to work on some time lapse photography so we jetted up to the 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, I realized on the way that I had forgot the software CD to run the capture program on my computer. Bummer. But we decided to set up anyway and try to take some stills. Lady fortune was shining on us that night though, as we realized the lighting conditions were actually not bad for shooting continuously at the shutter speed intervals. No intervalometer needed, just hold the button down! Anyway, this is what I came up with:


3rd Street Promenade Time Lapse from Ryan Tuttle on Vimeo.

Not too bad for a first try. Learned a lot. For example, if you want to be seen, move a lot slower (that's me at the 1:32 mark). A lesson not everyone needed, as you'll see below:


Promenade Time Lapse - Break Dance from Ryan Tuttle on Vimeo.

That's Carlos a.k.a. Barabro with the slow walk and the crazy breaking at the beginning of the clip. He and his crew perform there regularly, and they stopped and chatted with Justin and me to see what we were doing. (You know you're cool when the b-boys stop by and want to see what you're doing, right?... Right?... [chirp... chirp...]) OK, maybe not, but they were cool enough to do some moves for our little movie. I had fun. I think they did too. Here's a couple pics of Justin during the shooting. (Check out Justin's video too!)

Nice face birthday boy

Oh and we saw a piano sitting out on PCH on the way home. The end.