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Lots of âreactionâ videos on YT, this is one of the better ones
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One for car racing enthusiuasts, historical footage of multiple Indy 500 races all the way back to 1911, when the circuit was still a brick yard. I managed to get permission to sit up most of the night for the 1967 & 1968 races, when STP entered their fabulous turbine cars. The first car dominated the 1967 race, until a $3 bearing let go and put it out. In 1968 STP came back with 3 wedge shaped cars led by F1 champion Graham Hill, 2 of them were on the front row of the grid. Once again they dominated the race, until Hill crashed out of the lead, and the other 2 cars expired soon after. The race was won by Bobby Unser using a venerable, supercharged Offenhauser engine. The win started a long time rivalry with brother Al, which was passed on to their sons. It is fascinating to see how the cars and circuit evoled over the years.
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Vision of Longford car racing circuit in Tassie. A brilliant road racing circuit, but because it goes through a railway viaduct, l doubt that it will ever be used again for racing, just not safe enough. The circuit also crosses a river, twice. As a young teen l watched a race from there on ABC 2. A HD Holden pitted against an early model Ford Customline. What the Holden gained in braking, the Ford matched in acceleration. They swapped the lead a couple of times a lap, each lap for the entire race, but l canât recall which car won. At times it looked like they were going in slow motion, but it was a fantastic contest between the two.
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Heathens - a pretty iconic (at the time) documentary on a group of intense St Kilda fans during the 1991 season. Made a reappearance again on YouTube after going missing for several years.
Chook, Barry, Scott, Derek, Thommo, Justin - the sort of passionate supporters you would have found at most suburban grounds at this time. This was the first season (1991) that St Kilda had made the finals (top 6) in nearly 20 years.
For those playing along at homeâŚ
Preferably not to be watched around kids or anyone with an issue of some of the worst words in the English language.
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Spent some time down this little rabbit hole this morning.
Talk about balls of steels.
Anyone remember this?
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Chapel Street. Christmas 1988.
What has really changed in 34 years!? Not much, including some of the fashion that wouldnât look out of place today in its comeback.
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That was terrifying.
In case anyone cares, this is a link to the youtube channel for my snake catching. Mostly releases at this stage as I havenât worked out the best way to film captures effectively without putting myself too much in the firing line.
Happy to receive any and all feedback about how to make it better. Bear in mind I am phenomonally tech deficient.
Cheers
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I havenât watched it, but surely a go pro, drone or stick mounted camera would be âeasyâ enough.
Good luck though!!! Itâs a bit of a silly job if you ask me.
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I donât get enough adrenaline as a fire fighter so thought I would expand my repertoire
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Ok.
I could fight fires (have done some CFA volunteering)
I am happy to catch spiders to get them out of the house.
Snakes. No thanks.
The thing I could never do is anything super high above ground (unless I have a parachute), or in confined spaces below ground (unless I have a detonator like Vasquez in Aliens)
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If you did want to film captures, my thinking is youâre probably going to need multiple cameras and patch together the best overall footage. Some shots will be terrible, some will have moments that could be great to cut to for a few seconds. Itâd need to be gear that you donât notice once itâs running.
- a head GoPro
- a chest GoPro
- a stood back tripod camera or an assistant with a camera (if safe) that will give a good baseline quality shot that you can fall back to if the GoPro is crap.
Iâd look at other snake videos online and pick what you think looks good and work out how they are getting their shots. Itâd be an investment in a bit more gear and I canât give you advice on easy to use editing software.
Ballsy.
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I have a long term Mate who retired after teaching high school kids for nearly 50 years to Northern Tassie, and now is the local snake catcher. He seems to take good videos of his exploits so I will ask him what he does and use.
When he started this we just figured it was his death wish, but he says snakes are much easier to work than teenage kids and much more predictable.
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Thank you.
I agree with him. Animals are 99% predictable
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