David Rusenko

Driving New York to San Francisco 01/19/2008

About a year ago we accepted Y Combinator funding -- one of the requirements was for us to relocate the company from State College, PA to San Francisco.

Since I had a car to bring out, I decided to drive the 3,000 or so odd miles with all of my belongings packed into my car. To make things interesting, I decided to stop every 40 miles and take a picture of myself in front of the car, in the same place.

I put this all together as a video:

This is still a first draft (I'm toying around with a couple songs I might want to use instead). Let me know what you think!

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Tom Robinson

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:01:20

Cool, I have a similar thing from my drive from Seattle to San Diego last summer, but frames taken every 30 seconds from inside the car:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r4W7ZNmZ9VY

Conrad

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:07:27

Awesome!

Nathan Kaiser

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:52:48

Too cool.

Mike

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:27:26

This is cool man, I love road trips.

There is a great song by Bright Eyes named 'I must belong somewhere' which I have always thought would be great for a montage. Check it out.

Mike

matt brezina

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:23:29

Dude,

I love this. It turned out so well. I love the beaver hill parking lot nostalgia.

-m

15 Tracks

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:34:53

looks nice still...

Leslie

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:47:03

Awesome! I'm doing the drive this summer. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Leslie

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:47:07

Awesome! I'm doing the drive this summer. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

David

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:33:42

@Leslie:

My only big tip: Don't take I-80 during the winter months :)

joyelle

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:45:51

way too cool

Kirk LaPointe

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:52:19

Is anyone from Weebly support out there?
It is has been nine days now since I published my site and Weebly has put a placeholder of links on my URL that I wouldn't ever want to be associated with.
Someone please tell me Weebly can't or won't publish my site --- or do what you say you will.

David

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:46:43

Hi Kirk,

It seems you didn't purchase your domain through Weebly. That's ok! You can still use it with Weebly. But you'll need to contact the person you registered it with (domain.com) to figure out how to switch your DNS settings to work with Weebly. There's more instructions on how to do that here:

http://www.weebly.com/support/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=4

Rob Ashcroft

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:56:00

Sounds like the video is cool but... I can't see it at all. I'm using firefox on a Mac, should I be able to see a video image on the blog??

Michael

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:22:25

I love road trips. The song was awesome too. Ive never visited San. Fran. but I want to.
Thanx,
Make more sites.

Sarah

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:52:37

This is well gud! propa impressive! me n my boyfriend r going to do the drive in a motor home. ne tips? :o)

Sarah

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:57:56

ha! acually we're doin it backwards! so we can end up in new york for christmas! we're givin ourselves three months to do it so what n where wud be the best or worst places to stop or things to do on the way?

Chris Parkinson

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:52:54

The moveie/slideshow of the trip is really elegant and a great way to record long overland trips.

It is as elegant as weebly - which is by far the simplest web creator I have come across - and which derives its power from that simplicity. More power to you and all success.

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David Rusenko is a founder at Weebly, a company that makes a web creation tool that doesn't suck. He's also a part-time DJ and traveling enthusiast.

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