TIM AND THE VOLCANO
The Iceland trip worked exceptionally well. We made it across the island, and to each day's planned destination. 11 days in and navigating some pretty amazing wilderness.
We had a great team in Iceland. Tim Baur, brother from another mother, Lore's brother, is five months older than me.
Look up Baur Films. Tim is one of the finest drone videographers in the country. He and my nephew Lucas, aka, Pizzly Bear, sometimes had 12-hour days filming Iceland as we crossed the north sides of three of the world's largest glaciers, crossing around 70 streams (some small and some raging and very dangerous). For around 80 of the miles the terrain was only accessible by foot and bike, and there Tim and Pizzly Bear outfitted us with a GoPro.
When you work side by side for nearly three weeks, 24/7, a bond is created.
My job was the come up with the concept and plan the expedition, and Tim's photography work inserted moments of critique that brought out the best we could achieve working together. Each night he and Lucas reviewed film. We discussed the day we just had and planned for the next day. We rode and they filmed. It was great; I simply needed to be sure we understood the terrain and made the day's final destination (and every day we did), and Tim and Lucas captured 6 terabytes of film and built out a conceptualization of a film, with riding each day and filming in a generative relationship. We'd be walking a 4 mile-long hill and hear the drone, or their vehicle would show up along side us filming.
This praxis began the day we landed. Tim, Lucas, Andy and I arrived three days in advance of the others. That night Tim was operating the drone and plotting the sun. We had not slept for over 36 hours. Then 5:30 am the next day, we were filming, Tim and Lucas studying the nearly 24 hours of daylight that first day.
We will be traveling to North Carolina in the spring for a screening and workshop.
Here's a video of Tim operating the drone at the volcano, the Litli-Hrútur eruption. Tim, Tarryn, John and Lucas hiked the 20k round trip, while I kind of rode my bike (I wanted to get a photo of by bike with the volcano).
The majesty of the eruption was beyond anything I imagined it could or would be.
