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Warning: Probably nothing new to you since this is what I often do but this is a bit of a rant. Once again I find myself aggravated with our ignorance as a so-called advanced species. Recently there have been rumors of counterfeit money being circulated in the city that I live in. Nothing new there I suppose but the thing that I now find funny is the fact that a real counterfeit bill “I know that is sort of a oxy moron but anyway” a real counterfeit bill would cost upwards of twenty dollars to print, being that the ink is multi-colored, there are watermarks, a metal strip, the paper is not a normal every day stock made from wood but rather is a cloth fiber and that is not even to mention that I don’t know where the heck you think you could get plates or a press to print “real counterfeit bills”.

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This was the first time we have got involved in pyrotechnics in a long time since permits, location and firemen are all needed for a show like that. This time everything fell right into place perfectly. We photographed and filmed the fireworks display and I have put it together into a nice little video for you all to check out. Maybe the next time we do something like this we will have it a little more planned out but this was a pretty spectacular show for a birthday party. The complete show took almost 4 Gigabytes of video and 50 Megabytes in JPEG still images before being edited to fit the time of one audio track.
Editing of the audio, video, images and rendering took close to 4 hours. Hope you enjoy, I know we did but next time I am wearing a hardhat… I got rocked in the head with a spent casing wizzing out of the sky as I stood a few hundred feet below the launch site filming. No worries, luckily it was nothing serious. Gave me a slight headache for a few Before I show the video though I must stress that this was done with permits, firemen and proper location. Do not try to do this yourself unless you know what you are doing, hired professionals or whatever it takes to make sure you are safe and have acquired proper permits, etc. I have known professionals who knew what they were doing that have lost body parts or worse due to slight oversight and or slips so now with that said enjoy the video. (more…)