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 ONE QUILT     ONE MONTH       ONE CAMERA ONE SHOT             I haven't been able to talk about this project for the last few months since it was a surprise present for my friend's birthday.  But now that she's received it, I can spill the beans about what was going on in the studio back in November 2022.     The quilt pattern, "Island Chain" was the inspiration for this very quick 2 minute production.  The whole motivation for this quilt/lapse video was to try out an idea I had on the back burner for a while.  I would attach a 360ยบ camera to the end of a selfie stick and mount that to a motion control track.  The trick this time around was to mount the whole rig onto the ceiling and hang it . . . upside down.  This would allow me to move the camera horizontally, on an 8-foot path, up and down two times, over a 30 day period.  I now could shoot time lapse for a whole month and focus all my concentration on making the quilt, without the camera being directly in m