Hot Wheels Road Trip

For your amusement… a first person perspective of what it would be like to drive a Hot Wheel down a track.

Enjoy!




Ride along on the Hot Wheels car as it travels through 8 different track sections all connected by teleporting tunnels. From the backyard to the big hill to the pool and back, this track’s got it all.

Each section worked on its own from tunnel to tunnel. The cart is powered entirely by gravity at all times.

In total there are 11 cuts in the video, 7 between locations and 4 for slow motion footage. The jump section and the loop section were filmed twice, once in 30 fps and again in 120 fps, and the final video cuts from the normal speed footage to the slow motion footage for the duration of both the jump and the loop.

The cart worked reasonably well underwater and only fell off the pool track a few times. The main problem with the pool track was keeping the track connected and in place. A rock was attached to the end of the track in order to weigh it down.

In total about 200 feet of track was used, nearly all of which is present in the 4th section. Filmed with a GoPro Hero4 Session mounted on a modified 2014 Pharadox car. Filmed in California and Colorado.

SPECIAL THANKS

Anneliese Brincks, Ben Hunter, Mark Carlson, Matthew Carlson, and the residents of The Booge

 

Falcons Hunting Crows POV

Falcons, with cameras mounted on them, hunting crows.

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Falcons pursue prey using visual motion cues: new perspectives from animal-borne cameras

This study reports on experiments on falcons wearing miniature videocameras mounted on their backs or heads while pursuing flying prey. Videos of hunts by a gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), gyrfalcon (F. rusticolus)/Saker falcon (F. cherrug) hybrids and peregrine falcons (F. peregrinus) were analyzed to determine apparent prey positions on their visual fields during pursuits. These video data were then interpreted using computer simulations of pursuit steering laws observed in insects and mammals. A comparison of the empirical and modeling data indicates that falcons use cues due to the apparent motion of prey on the falcon’s visual field to track and capture flying prey via a form of motion camouflage. The falcons also were found to maintain their prey’s image at visual angles consistent with using their shallow fovea. These results should prove relevant for understanding the co-evolution of pursuit and evasion, as well as the development of computer models of predation and the integration of sensory and locomotion systems in biomimetic robots.

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Falcons Hunting Crows POV
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Point Of View Of The World’s Tallest Water Slide

Behold… the world’s tallest waterslide at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City.

There’s nothing better than hitting the water slides at the water park to cool off in the summer. Now, you can really get your splash on at Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts.

After showing off their new attraction last winter, Schlitterbahn has finally offered potential guests a point of view video of the ride which will hopefully open soon. Extreme to say the least!

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Previously:
The World’s Tallest Waterslide
 

How Falcons Catch Their Prey

How Falcons Catch Their Prey

Scientist Suzanne Amador Kane has discovered that falcons keep their prey locked in the same place on their retinas by attaching cameras onto hunting falcons. The original research was published in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

Amazing footage of falcons hunting crows.

Suzanne Amador Kane, working with falconers across the globe, has discovered that falcons pursue prey by keeping the image of the prey in the same place on their retina during the pursuit as they close in.

This movie shows ground breaking footage capture by movie cameras mounted on hunting falcons filmed by Eddy De Mol and his colleagues Valerie Collet and Francois Lorrain.

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This Is Why We Fly

This Is Why We Fly…

This Is Why We Fly
This is spectacular. I often have wondered why the airline industry doesn’t have a live video feed from the aircraft’s nose streamed into the cabin in order to amuse and bedazzle their weary travelers.

This is the descent into Queenstown, New Zealand. It must take great faith in your instruments to pilot an approach like this but the rush must be amazing.

Expand it to full screen and enjoy!

…sometimes what a pilot sees in a day, people won’t see in their lifetimes.. amazing Queenstown, New Zealand.

I invite people of the world to come visit this beautiful country and its people.

 

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