The Landi Family

Captured from my driveway, a spectacular night launch of STS116 Click to view (Quicktime required) This video is just over 1 minutes long and weighs in at at just over 72MB! I Originally shot at 1080i, but I reduced it down to 1280×720 H.264 to reduce the file size. Shot using a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder

Today I captured the successful lauch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115

Video was taken from my driveway about 56 miles west of Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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It’s only 46 seconds but weighs in, close to 38 MB !!

I reduced it down to 1280×720 H.264 using a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder

 

Back in the late 70's, my dad who reconditioned old slot machines sold at least 4 of these Clamshell Mutoscopes to Disney for their new theme park in Florida.  

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 Click images to enlarge Up until the late 80's these where located in the penny arcade on Main street. However, Disney turned the old penny arcade into a modern video game arcade and removed all their penny machines, including the ones pictured above. Fast forward to 2006, I now live about 40 minutes from Disney World. While at the park a few weeks ago we where caught in one of Florida's daily rain storms. When I took cover in the newly remodeled train station's second floor, to my surprise, I came across my fathers old machines. I remember playing on these in our basement along with all the other old slot machines, steam shovel games and some very old pin ball machines.

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Well we made it through another year.  Hope everyone has a great new years.

The nice thing about living in Florida, or close to Orlando is that you can take a quick ride to Disney World after school.

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Well our move to our new house is now complete.  For anyone trying to find the images in the gallery, just click here

We spent the day at Writes Farm in North Smithfield today, to celebrate  Jim and Nathan’s Birthday.

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