"One day kid, you can be immature like us."
Insanity is fun where you’re surrounded by people who encourage it or supplement it. My uncle is usually the lead in coming up with stupid ways to injure people around us. He usually spends as much time building a trebuchet, gigantic bubbles, potato cannon or water rocket as he does trying to convince people to play with him. Then I showed up with camera gear and my own bag of chemical and physics knowledge. Things got heavy.
The rocket setup isn’t anything new. In fact, the school I work at has one and we use it as a physics project. The plans can be found online (surprise!). The fun part was when my uncle saw my GoPro camera. We realized that we could strap this to the top of it and fire it off into the sky. After about five seconds of deliberation of whether or not we should do it (we did it) and if it would break the camera (that’s its job), we headed to the beach. After the first test shot, we had half of the cabins, three extra families and every kid on the beach watching what we were doing. I shot at 60 fps, 720p so I could slow the video down and after a short edit (it’s a bit amateur, but it captures the fun we had) we had a video that everybody in the Quarterdeck Beach Houses HAD to see. You can to! (it’s down below)
Outstanding way to spend an afternoon! Good altitude on that last shot. Maybe the kids will go into the private space industry?
Well, now I have a third use for a GoPro.
Hmmm. Something like that would be quite handy for some of the future articles that I'd like to do, like sharpening, tool operation, etc. I've been trying to think of a way to photograph or film what I'm doing with my hands, and I just don't have the gear for it. I'll have to build up some 'Daddy points' and make a proposal to the home finance officer. It'll work if I can figure out a use for it that she would enjoy.
Blast you, Cardboard Tube! I don't need this expense right now. But I think I do need this gadget, however. Why do I feel as if I'm slowly being corrupted?
"Dear, if we had a GoPro camera for the kids to use to film their stunts, we'll have documentary evidence to show the people at the emergency room that we aren't child-beaters."
Not a bad idea, but we're far past that stage. My boys are in their 20s now, and we're trying to get them to finish college and go to work.
Where is this Summerville Beach? Inquiring minds and all that…