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Beer Pong Timelapse - Egg Timer

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rlee
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Hey, I thought i would post this up here as I think the idea behind it is pretty cool and that NS could get some ideas and inspiration from it.

I got the idea from Philip Bloom.com where someone adapted a egg timer to create a ''automatic panning motor''. Heres the link:


​Its pretty simple to do and and I think some people on here could get really creative with it. I know I have some other ideas. Anyway, i didn't go as fancy or technical with my experiment. I bought the cheapest egg timer i could find (which happened to be a lovely ladybug) and blue-tacked my GoPro to the top. Set the camera to take a photo every 2 seconds and let it run as we played.

Here's the set up:

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And here is the video - Please watch on Vimeo for much better quality! Enjoy

May 9 2011 5:38PM
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cool.
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such a sick idea! loved it man! spotted a bounce in one of the frames at :23.

nice work dood!
May 9 2011 5:48PM
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MANDER
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Ya I loved it too! and some spots it bounced a bit but they were playing beerpong...what do you expect?
May 9 2011 5:54PM
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cool.
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hahaha no i meant i saw the ball bounce aka bounce shot
May 9 2011 6:31PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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that was sick. Ive heard of the egg timer but never have seen it used.
May 9 2011 7:55PM
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Brock.
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Thats a great idea! I dont know how well an egg timer will do under the weight of my t2i however...

May 9 2011 8:24PM
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SkiThe603
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i am guessing not well, just a guess though
May 9 2011 9:10PM
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jfxphoto
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sick idea that turned out well! Party looked like a brofest though...

and theres nothing wrong with that
May 9 2011 10:34PM
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carbon.pulse
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That was awesome.
May 9 2011 10:45PM
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Vino
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:13 is the best
May 9 2011 10:58PM
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basedjase
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Hhaha there's nothing wrong with some buddies kickin' it..

Good video though! Turned out pretty well.
May 9 2011 11:05PM
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freeskibum82
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ooooh he gave the camera the finger.. OMG.. update you twitter and facebook!
May 10 2011 10:14AM
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Vino
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nah my bad, it was :15, I was talking about the coolface of the dude in dark grey on the couch

May 10 2011 4:45PM
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pomme-de-terre
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You could always take like a pizza pan and attach it to a bicycle sprocket, take another smaller sprocket and a chain and an electric motor and battery from radioshack and then rig that up to slowly rotate for a long period of time.




wait a minute, what the fuck am i doing in M&A?
May 10 2011 5:36PM
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laserbeamz
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Sic idea, beer pong and timlapses 2 great things together.
May 11 2011 7:01AM
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special_k10101
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that's really legit. such a simple concept but to a great effect.
May 12 2011 4:58PM
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Reed.
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was that an E.T. reference? if so, bravo sir! also, it needs to ratchet via bent coat hanger
May 13 2011 1:19AM
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erikK
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the answer to your sig is yes if you didn't know it
May 13 2011 2:26AM
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thisandthatfilms
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damn dude so dope! gonna have to do this soon
May 13 2011 9:53AM
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rlee
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Thanks guys, glad you liked it. Its super easy to do i recommend at least giving it a try and see what cool stuff you can come up with. Ive got a pool party event coming up late in the summer which im shooting a vid for so planning to put this up somewhere on the DJ booth looking at at everyone and the DJ's spinning round. Who knows, could be pretty cool.

You can buy a proper device if your too lazy to make one yourself, you could probably find them elsewhere, i just pulled the first one i found:







May 22 2011 5:41PM
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Troy.
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I wonder how much weight that will support, but that is a really cool thing to do. Definitely doing that this summer
May 22 2011 7:35PM
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