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nobody@flickr.com (Ashley Pomeroy) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:11:58 -0700

This was shot from the window of a train, travelling from Romsey to Salisbury, Wiltshire, shortly after leaving Romsey, with a Canon Ixus 70. That's a big cloud.

It is a magical experience, to travel on South West Trains for only 40 seconds. The music is by me, done mostly with an Alesis Micron, a free VST sampler called Shortcircuit, and M-Tron, a VST Mellotron simulation. Spot the CR-78 samples!

It's a little bit like "London to Brighton in Four Minutes", a classic BBC film from 1952 that used to be shown in between the programmes. Back in 1952 I would have been very lucky to own a camera, I certainly wouldn't have been able to make this film or show it to anybody. You had to be pretty hardcore to be a filmmaker in Britain in 1952, either very rich or very driven, or well-connected, or very talented, or very lucky. Not like today, although none of those things hurt, exactly.

And see also this, which was recorded two years later with considerably more sophisticated technology (although it's not quite as sunny):
www.flickr.com/photos/ashleypomeroy/4505615141/

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