Sunday, July 08, 2007

Video: Darin Boville re-imagines Wednesday’s fireworks

posted by Barry Parr on Jul 08, 2007 at 10:53 am in Community
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Darin Boville

Whether you saw Wednesday’s fireworks display or regret you missed it, don’t miss Darin Boville’s re-imagining of the event over at Montara Fog. He took his excellent video of the display and overlayed and condensed it into something familiar, but totally new:

These are the Half Moon Bay fireworks as you’ve never seen them before. The video begins with the real grand finale and ends with a with a fantasy grand finale made up of the first forty minutes of fireworks transformed into a two minute spectacle. The whole thing is over in under five minutes.

Darin Boville’s Coastside Fantasy Fireworks Video [5 min] | Quicktime | Flash |

Comments

Comment 1 by Anneliese Agren on Jul 08 at 11:28am • All my comments •

Oh man! That was fantabulous! Exactly how I've always wished fireworks would kick in more-oomph! at to end the display. Thanks for including the audio too.

Comment 2 by Deb Wong on Jul 09 at 6:09am • All my comments •

Wow, we were there, too, but got a whole different vantage point from the pier. I got some video clips, too, which are more...er...indicative of our location and vantage point. There were a couple of loud, pretty blasted spectators who can be heard on the clips. One guy just kept yelling: "BOOM!" after every rocket was shot off. So, for awhile there, it was just: "Boom! Boom! Boom!", then he yelled: "That's Independence, Baby!"

Some people on a boat lit up a bunch of M80s right in front of us, to the delight of the onlookers. There were police sirens all around, trying their best to quence the numerous illegal fireworks displays. At one point when we got bored by the official display, we turned around to watch the Yacht Club's annual show.

I think that our trouble is that we try, try, try not to compare, but after seeing the annual Kaboom fireworks shows, all else pales in comparison. We really do appreciate the job done by HMB, though. Got us out of the house.

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