Reno to Austin, Nevada

Painted Rock Fourmile Flat and Sand Mountain Fairview Peak from Sand Springs Pass Middlegate Shoe Tree New Pass, Desatoya Mts. Mt. Airy Mesa Historic Austin Cemetery Downtown Austin
In Ausust 2004 John Louie and 17 students worked a week profiling from northern Nevada to Fresno, Calif. Much of the work used Austin as a base, three hours east of Reno, for this research project. This trip starts through the Virginia Range along the Truckee River on I-80, and proceeds across the broad Carson Sink and past Sand Mountain on US 50 (the ``Loneliest Road''), across Fairview Valley, then passing Westgate, the Shoe Tree at Middlegate, and (near) Eastgate, Cold Springs, New Pass, and Mt. Airy Pass; catching a quick glimpse of Austin's historic cemeteries before arriving.

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Taken was on Aug. 17, 2004, this movie comprises frames taken every 4 seconds while traveling as fast as 75 miles per hour. If you can play it back at 30 frames per second, you'll make the journey at 9000 miles per hour! One minute and 20 seconds instead of three hours.

Captured with Boinx iStopMotion This flight was among the first taken with a Sony DCR-HC20 camcorder at full DV resolution. The camcorder was connected with a FireWire cable to a Titanium Powerbook running iStopMotion 1.3 from Boinx.