Interesting.
That's about all I can say to headline the past few days.
Monday night, as you know, I took a bunch of equipment downtown for a fundraiser event. That went really well. We had a pretty good turnout for the movie. This was a shot I took of the projector rig from afar. There's some motion blur from the people, but it was a 15 second exposure.
Then, we did some quick tests of the laser graffiti rig at Harry's to make sure our setup worked.
After that, we mobilized and took to the streets of KC with it, blasting the projector more than 1/10 of a mile onto the side of a prominent AT&T building downtown. I really wish I would have brought my Tripod along for some bracketed shots. These would have been much better in HDR.
It was a little more impressive in person. Here are some short video clips from our test run at Harry's:
Without going into a whole lot of detail, my wife's having some problems again. I didn't get much sleep Monday night, and woke up to a Gran Mal Seizure yesterday morning. I'm epileptic but most of my symptoms are in remission. This is the first seizure of this magnitude I've had in more than a decade. This kind easily ruins your day. So both my wife and I were having trouble yesterday.
Everyone experiences seizures a little differently. I can only imagine what I experienced yesterday was something like a really, really bad LSD trip. Visually, I started getting tunnel vision, then my whole body went numb, hands and face got clammy, then a funny, metallic taste and accompanying smell occurred. During the convulsions, my eyes were shut but I could hear everything around me (including one of my cats freaking out) and then I was seeing stars through closed eyelids, which quickly turned into a very vivid pattern of colorful fractal-like images. The visual was extremely compelling. Had I not been in pain and unable to move, I probably would have enjoyed that part. Like I said... probably much akin to a bad trip.
What's odd is that yesterday I found out that my mother (also an epileptic with very infrequent symptoms) had a similar episode not long ago.
My muscles are still pretty sore from the convulsions today, and somewhere along the way I really trashed my left arm. I took the bus this morning, and will probably take it this afternoon to get out to the hospital my wife's staying at, then ride home from there tonight (about 12 miles if I recall correctly).
So yeah, this has been quite a week so far, and it's only Wednesday. Now where the heck is my coffee?
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