A Cross-Country Road Trip In Under 2 Minutes (VIDEO)

Zach Brantley, an Orlando-based filmmaker and owner of Zommbumz, a company dedicated to getting skateboarders sponsored, extensively photographed his journey across the country to Santa Monica, California.

Brantley, who has produced roughly 36 videos, combined individual photographs of his trip (which are mostly concentrated in the western portion of America), assembled them presumably in geographical order and set a soundtrack to the video. He gives no word, though, on how long his own drive took, nor on how long it took him to produce the video.

Thinking of borrowing Brantley's technique? Check out tips from Huffington Post Travel's road warrior, Matt Kepnes.

WATCH:

Road Trip: PhotoMotion from zack brantley on Vimeo.

Comments

[Barbara Potts]

02:40 PM on 03/20/2011

This was defintely not cross country. I didn't see any eastern coast or the eastern part of the midwest. it just looked the same mountains were the only pRT OF THE VIDEO.

[Cactusman]

06:11 PM on 03/19/2011

I kind of liked this, although I have to agree with the critiques: This is not "cross-country" and it is not in chronological order, unless he started in Van Horn TX, went to Santa Monica, doubled back to San Antonio and visited the Alamo, and then ended his trip near Quartzsite AZ. Not the most professional video ever, perhaps, but I liked it.

The reason it appealed to me is because I live in, know, and love the SW, and I had fun trying to figure out exactly where his photos were taken. I actually know some of the random places shown - Exit 53 off of I-10 is a place I frequently stop to stretch my legs when driving to Phoenix, and I laughed when I saw a photo of the Zip Travel Station at Vicksburg Road and I-10. I get fuel there sometimes. It's never occurred to me to photograph it and post it on YouTube, however.... :-)

[JScott]

02:22 AM on 03/22/2011

I thought the same too, slightly outta travel sequence and only looked like from W.Tx to about San Gorgonio Pass in Ca.

[JScott]

02:23 AM on 03/22/2011

Some sequences tho reminded me of the movie 'Bagdad Cafe' esp. with the trains.

[G A Thomas]

01:17 PM on 03/18/2011

awesome!

[msemas]

12:39 PM on 03/18/2011

Yeah...not that impressed. I made two videos from a cross-country train trip my girlfriend and I took this last summer that I think are (far) better than this...and I am most certainly an amateur!
One, like Zach's, is a photo montage of the places we went and the space in between:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAjmEbE3T9E
The other is a more austere video montage taken from the various train windows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBIxZKm0Jw

Let me know what you think!! Maybe Huff Post will feature me next time ;^)

[tortillaj]

08:41 AM on 03/18/2011

meh...

[shylocxs]

08:20 AM on 03/18/2011

yawm

[RickO]

07:57 AM on 03/18/2011

Dull.

[carllafong]

06:53 AM on 03/18/2011

This is the real cross-country road trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-unBigvoY

[HopeLiesBleeding]

05:36 PM on 03/18/2011

Much, much better, and more what I'd imagined. Why HuffPo even bothered with this one is beyond me. The guy never even got out of the desert, so it hardly qualifies as "cross-country".

[BobEvansZombie]

05:55 AM on 03/18/2011

Lame. That was all south west.

[SilentSolidarity]

04:52 AM on 03/18/2011

I don't know. What is the point of all this?

[Jamie Dufour]

04:38 AM on 03/18/2011

sad...this could have been filmed maybe in three states nothing more...I really expected something this time around....bbbbbbbbbbboooooring

[SURFER DUDE]

02:37 AM on 03/18/2011

I hope people read the comments first before wasting two minutes of their life watching this worthless video.

[sonofsarek]

02:08 AM on 03/18/2011

I guess "across the country" = Mexicali to Tuscon.

[JScott]

02:29 AM on 03/22/2011

Looked more like about western Texas to about Palm Springs Ca.

[Hikemasters]

02:00 AM on 03/18/2011

It isn't even in geographical order! I've done the drive from Florida to Los Angeles and have the images such that I could have done this project better. His was basically was from Austin, TX to California and then back to Arizona.

I thought it was be a video sped up as if you were driving really fast.

That was featured on Huffington Post?

[LiberalYankeeFan]

01:50 AM on 03/18/2011

more like across the west and that's it...