Time-lapse video of Reno Balloon Races on Front Page of You Tube

By • on September 14, 2006

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Originally uploaded by dave_laplante.

There’s a very cool video time lapse video of the Reno Balloon Races on the front page of You Tube this morning. Put up by a user called tlapse, the video is time-lapse photography of what appears to be Sunday’s race. With over 110,000 views, ~700 comments and a 4.5 star rating, this is a Reno marketer’s dream come true. Somebody give this man a free weekend at the Siena!

The Reno Balloon Races is one of Reno’s best events…not that we have a shortage of them. You simply can’t go wrong with hundreds of brightly colored balloons and kids. (Side note: the front cover of this week’s Business Week Magazine is hot air balloons. Josh & Robert blog about it here.)

While we as a family didn’t make it to dawn patrol this year (getting up at 5am on a Sunday is hard!!!), we made it there in time to watch the whole gaggle go off while we kicked back and drank hot chocolate and coffee.


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Originally uploaded by dave_laplante.

The boys and I enjoying some hot chocolate at the Reno Balloon Races.

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Comments

By Josh Kenzer on September 14th, 2006 at 9:48 am

That is a sweet video. You should link to it :P

By David LaPlante on September 14th, 2006 at 10:01 am

I did. But in case you missed the first sentence, here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyyCcjbrWOM

By Josh Kenzer on September 14th, 2006 at 10:07 am

Thanks. I obviously posted my comment, then you changed your post!

By David LaPlante on September 14th, 2006 at 10:14 am

One must not comment in haste ;-)

Check out the software that the guy used to make this with: http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/Product_gbt.aspx

It’s for Canon digital cameras. Gonna have to get me some of that.

By Josh Kenzer on September 14th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

That is sweet. Let me know when you get it so we can play with it. Maybe we can get an old cheap laptop to setup somewhere.

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