A Night of Pool at Sophie's, Part III

Long-time readers of this blog might remember my first two forays into motion pictures, my experimentation with the Pure Digital Technologies "Flip" camcorder that resulted in A Night of Pool and Another Night of Pool. Shortly after I made those movies I ditched that camera (as well as iMovie and YouTube). Since then I've become much more enthusiastic about time lapse photography and other DSLR-created movies. This video you are about to watch is black and white still-photograph animation mixed with straightforward time lapse sequences. I've been doing a ton of time lapse lately (hardly any of it pool related) and this month I added a Meade motorized telescope mount to my arsenal. What this mount has allowed me to do is incorporate a slow (glacial, if I choose), planning sweep into my time lapses. But it's hard to set up at a place like Sophie's, I'm limited to whichever out-of-the-way spot I can find to clamp it down. Still, while these are early experiments and I feel that I have a lot of room to improve, I'm excited about the possibilities.

Sophie's Photo Roundup, Part Six

Sorry for my lapse in posting. Not much to report in the pool world. We just finished our season last night, as a wildcard draw against the first-ranked team in the league. We got two games up but couldn't hold on for the win. So it goes. It's been about 10 months since I last did a photo roundup, so I am definitely long overdue. Enjoy.
Above is a picture of Jeff, who is easily one of the best players never to have played on a Sophie's team. I've tried recruiting him but he's not interested.
This is Josh from a few months ago when we met up for some three-cushion billiards at Space Billiards in Koreatown. This is something that we need to do more often. Josh has become one of the most dependable players I've ever had the honor of playing with. Dependable because he's there every week and also because he's got the chops for when it counts most. He just came off an 11-3 season.
Slima, from a few weeks ago.
This is one of our new players, Howard. I've been very happy to have Howard on our team. Definitely one of the most easy-going people ever, he's got a real genuine southern-Virginia personality. I'm hoping he's able to stick around for at least a few more seasons. This was taken at Whiskey Ward.
My old teammate Freddy from last spring, taken very late one evening. Freddy has a house down in Puerto Rico and is constantly telling me I should come visit. I know he plays quite a bit of pool down there...but at Sophie's, not so much anymore.
Chris and Grace from Sophie's with Julie, our division rep. I have no idea when this was taken, looks like a summer picture.
Caveman, who I haven't seen in quite a while. Still shoots a pretty good game of pool.
My current teammate Freddy from Colombia, left, who has been at Sophie's for quite some time, and Abdi, who is in his second season with us.
Finally, a duo of Englishmen with an Irish guy in the middle. These guys were batting me around like a pinball several weeks ago. Three great players with wonderful personalities to boot. From left it's Jason, Conor and Dave.