So I'm on the phone with David Douglas, and he says "I'm outside watching the eclipse." ECLIPSE? I ran and got my camera and tripod, and this time tried to focus more closely on the moon than I did on the video I shot of the total lunar eclipse on August 28, 2007. This meant I had to move the camera more frequently to keep the moon in the field of vision, which causes a lot of shaking from time to time. Fortunately it seems to go with the music. It was FREAKIN' cold out and zooming in like this meant I had to be outside to adjust the camera about every three to five minutes as the moon moved out of the field of view. This was videotaped from about two Canadian miles outside of Oliver, British Columbia. Video by David Lynch. Music by Beethoven. This is almost two hours of video compressed to the length of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata - about six minutes.

This is a five minute high-speed video of fourty minutes of footage of the moon coming out from under the earth's shadow during a total lunar eclipse. Playing in the background is a couple of tracks from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. The video doesn't capture the coppery glaze the moon had while sitting in the shadow of the earth, but there's plenty of detail, and the Floyd doesn't hurt. I had to reposition the camera several times, as the moon disappeared from view, punctuating some of the musical riffs with visual movement :)