The area I live in is pretty strange. Call it polution or weather conditions or something, but I've seen more strange cloud formations and strangely tinted skies since I moved in to my current appartment than I have in my entire life. How bizaare. I've seen more bright blue, or green, or blood red sunsets than I could shake a stick at. Once, at four in the morning I woke up and noticed that everything was salmon colored. All my walls and everything outside was this wierd shade of salmon. At first I thought I was dreaming, but I actually made a point of getting up and walking around and it turned out that it was just some really, really cool diffusion of the rising sun. So, anyway, that's my apartment location for you.
So half the time I wish I had a camera on me...or my video camera or something, but unfortunatley I don't make it much of a priority. Tonight however, I actually made an effort, and man was it cool.
It started to storm around 6 or 7. It was just kind of a buildup of wind and stuff. The sky was this kind of dark hypercolor. So I grabbed the camera thinking I'd get some cool wind noise and some stock shots. So then I climbed up onto this hill by my house and shot the whole area as the rain moved in and the tornado sirens started blasting. So right about there I decided it probably wasn't such a good idea to be standing on a hill when the lightning started reigning down. As much fun as it would have been for all the people that were watching me, the doctors really don't need any more of my money, so I went back inside but I left the camera near the door in case something cool happened.
So something cool happened...it started to pour down, like in sheets, and lightning, and everything got kind of fuzzy. The sirens were blaring and I was shooting, and the footage was just sweet! I was only short a tornado sighting, but lets face it, who really wants one of those?
Anyway, I was thinking that it would be cool to make a short film using this footage spliced together with something else. Granted, that's another project for the list, but it wouldn't be difficult at all. I'll have to let you know how it goes. First things first, however. The Crisis goes in the can this summer, then maybe this will be the next project.
Posted by Matt at April 18, 2004 10:39 PM