Video of a Cyclist with a Death Wish in Derby City Centre at night.

I used to be a very keen cyclist until a stupid taxi driver knocked me off my bike 20 odd years ago, So I fully understand what its like to be on a bike on roads full of inconsiderate car drivers. BUT it absolutely amazes me the kind of risky situations that cyclists put them selves in such as the one in my video.
While recording for one of my "Derby streets by car" series of videos I captured this stupid idiot while I was turning right at a roundabout in the city centre of Derby.

Why on Earth would you ride onto a traffic island when there is a car coming towards you?
Forcing me to slam the brakes on. What if I had hit him ?


He does not have any lights on the bike and does not even look to the right on entering the roundabout!

At this round-a-bout you turn right from Corporation Street onto Derwent Street.
The time was 8.22pm on Thursday 18th April 2013. The roads were dry, lighting was good.

Have you had any close shaves with cyclists like this?

Thanks
Andy

Video of a fast drive at night from Derby to Swan Inn Pub in Milton, Derbyshire, September 2012.

Here is  my latest video A fast drive at night from Derby to Swan Inn Pub in Milton, Derbyshire, September 2012 HD.

The video :

Or click the link :  Fast drive at night from Derby to Swan Inn Pub in Milton, Derbyshire, September 2012.

This car journey is something a bit different to my usual "Derby streets by car" series of videos, as this one is filmed at night at 1080p HD.
I put the camera into Low Lux mode and turned off Auofocus, set manual focus to infinity.

This video is a fast drive at night from Derby to The Swan Inn Pub in Milton, Derbyshire.
Recorded on Wednesday 12th September 2012.
It starts in Sainsburys car park on Osmaston Park Road at 8:19pm and ends in the car park of the Swan Inn pub in Milton, Derbyshire at 8:40pm

Points of Interest
0:00 The Car Park at Sainsburys Osmaston Park Road store
0:22 Left onto Osmaston Park Road
0:25 Over the railway line
0:27 Entrance to Foresters leisure park on left
0:34 Oast House pub and Premier inn (Derby South)
0:36 Left down Sinfin Lane
0:50 Entrance to Foresters leisure park on left
0:58 Over railway line
1:32 Right onto Grampian Way
2:11 ASDA Sinfin Roundabout
2:31 Left onto Stenson Road
2:52 Over the A50
2:56 Stenson, Derbyshire
3:08 Stenson Bubble Pub and Hotel
3:11 Over the Trent and Mersey canal
3:17 Right onto Buckford Lane
3:46 Left onto Frizams Lane
4:07 Right onto Twyford Road (A5132)
4:08 Willington Cooling towers on right
4:32 On right side is where Willington Car Boot takes place on a Saturday
4:35 Willington, Derbyshire
4:57 Under railway line
5:03 Left onto Repton Road (A5008)
5:16 Becomes Willington Road
5:20 Over the River Trent
5:43 Repton, Derbyshire
5:57 Left down Brook End
6:07 Right up Milton Road
6:50 Milton, Derbyshire
6:53 Main Street
7:05 The Swan Inn Pub on the left (49 Main Street, Milton, Derbyshire,UK)

Statistics:
Perhaps your good at maths?
Total distance of driving route = 9.0 miles
Total real driving time = 19 minutes 45 seconds
Total speeded up driving time = 7 minutes 12 seconds
So..............
Average driving speed in this video is ?

The driving route map for my video:


View Driving route map for my video Derby to Swan Inn Pub in Milton in a larger map
 

Hope you enjoyed the night drive.

Music Credits :
Forest of Dreams by Platinum Butterfly
www.ccmixter.org/files/F_Fact/30978
Used under creative commons license.

This is just a village pub but you can see Paul Young in Los Pacaminos perform here !!!!
http://derbyphotoscouk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/paul-young-performing-near-derby-this.html

If you enjoyed my drive and like Derby and Derbyshire stuff then please subscribe to my channel.

To learn more about the Derbyshire village of Milton, see my page :
Milton in Derbyshire.


thanks
Andy

Video of a Saturday night Drive around Derby City Centre on 9th June 2012.

The drive starts at 00:01am (i.e actually Sunday Morning!)
Perhaps you were down town and were caugh on camera in my drive. Were you in the queues for the nightclubs down Wardwick or outside Coyote wild.

This is a real-time car journey around Derby, Derbyshire, UK. First time I have ever tried recording in the dark.


or click this link Saturday night drive around Derby City Centre in June 2012.

Points of interest
00:00 Cathedral Road
00:12 Left Cathedral Road continues
00:39 Ahead in Old Silk Mill pub
00:40 The Ye Olde Dolphin Inn (Derby's oldest pub)
00:42 Right onto Iron Gate
00:54 Right down St. Mary's Gate
01:05 On right here is Derby Cathedral Quarter Hotel
01:12 Bold Lane Car Park (Worlds safest car park)
01:20 Left onto Bold Lane
01:35 On the left side here is the bottom of Sadler Gate
01:45 Onto The Strand
02:03 white car looks like its going to hit the blue one!
02:09 Ahead is Coyote wild Derby, on the right is Revolution Bar
02:39 Right around onto Wardwick
03:11 Onto Friar Gate
03:45 Under Friar Gate Bridge
04:07 Right onto Bridge Street
04:17 Right onto Agard Street
04:40 Left into Ford Street (Derby Inner ring road)
04:56 BBC Radio Derby on the left
05:22 Right onto Cathedral Road
05:36 Left Cathedral Road continues
05:52 Full Street
06:25 Corporation Street
06:50 Morledge
07:06 On left is Holiday Inn hotel, Derby bus Station and Genting Casino
07:15 Westfield car park.
End

Driving route map


View Map for video - Saturday night Drive around Derby City Centre on 9th June 2012 in a larger map


This is a test of the "Low Lux" option on the camcorder, I think I should have selected manual focus though as the autofocus had problems, I had to do some serious sharpening to get it like this.

Hope you enjoyed the ride.
Thanks
Andy

90's Derby was the clubbing capital of the UK as you can see in this new documentary DVD.

One More - The Definitive history of UK clubbing 1988 - 2008 DVD is out now, featuring interviews with DJs from the former club night "Progress" in Derby. I remember it do you?

Progress played house and trance music, started in 1992 at a club called the Wherehouse (now Mosh), in Friar Gate. It then moved to the Conservatory in Willow Row then at Eclipse in Babington Lane also at Time Nightclub and Sodabar. Progress finished in 2002.

The Blu-ray of this documentary is out on March 12th:
One More - The Definitive history of UK clubbing 1988 - 2008 [Blu-ray]

It s an all-star DJ line-up that would have cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in its heyday...assembled here for One More celebration. Clubland heavyweights Jeremy Healy, Brandon Block, Graeme Park, Danny Rampling, Norman Cook, Tall Paul, Allister Whitehead, Mark Moore, Sonique, Nicky Holloway and Radio One stalwarts Judge Jules Jules and Dave Pearce.

Nearly two years in the making, packed with previously unseen archive footage and set to a seminal soundtrack from a pioneering generation, this intriguing documentary quizzes the people who made it all possible.

One More - The Definitive history of UK clubbing 1988 - 2008 is available from Amazon :




Clubland heavyweights Jeremy Healy, Brandon Block, Graeme Park, Norman Cook, Tall Paul, Allister Whitehead, Mark Moore, Sonique, Nicky Holloway and Radio One stalwarts Judge Jules, Danny Rampling and Dave Pearce, plus many more.

Fuelled by revolutionary party drug ecstasy, this historic era of UK clubbing changed the lives of millions.

This intriguing account quizzes the pioneers who made it all possible.

A video clip of this DVD:


We basically nicked what Alfredo was doing and did it better.
Nicky Holloway

The band were saying “we can’t be associated with dance music”, so I left. When I got back to Brighton ecstasy had been invented and “finally it was happening to me.
Norman Cook

London had changed - all fuelled by this new drug called ecstasy.
Dave Pearce

It was the ’90s, ‘Excess All Areas‘. With the clubscene, Brit Pop and the festivals...the UK was party central for ten years
Danny Rampling

The decline in the so-called superclubs wasn’t down to a diminishing popularity of dance music, it was because it became more readily available.
Judge Jules

Andy

Video of 2011 Sheffield Christmas lights with night time views of Peace Gardens and Railway Station waterfall.

Here is a video I shot on Thursday/Friday night in Sheffield of the 2011 Christmas lights, I have also included
lots of night time footage of the Sheffield Peace Gardens and the Railway Station water feature.



We were in Sheffield to see two 80s bands, Adam Ant on 15th and Go West on the 16th, both at the Sheffield o2 Academy. Both gigs were great.

Here are some videos of the Adam Ant gig in Sheffield on Thursday 15th December 2011:

Ants Invasion.
Stand and Deliver.
Puss 'n Boots.
Kings of the wild frontier.
Vince Taylor.
Ant Music.
Red Scab.
Physical (You're So).

Here are some videos of the Go West gig in Sheffield on Friday 16th December 2011:
The Tracks Of My Tears.
Love the way you lie.
Faithful.
Black and Gold.
Bright lights bigger city (cover).

The cheapest train ticket from Derby to Sheffield is with a Derbyshire Wayfarer, this costs £8.90 and that's unlimited travel on train and bus all day! This ticket can not be put in the barrier machine at Derby so you have to goto the wide barrier entrance to get the guard to let you through, remember to keep the ticket.

Happy Christmas
Andy
www.derbyphotos.co.uk

Video : Staggered time shift time-lapse Night Driving experiment

In this video I have been experimenting with mixing multiple time-lapse sequences together along a staggered time-shifted timeline. I hope to create some more of these as I think the effect if pretty cool just using a second hand camera that cost £30 !

I wonder what this would look like projected onto a massive screen in a nightclub?

Please watch in HD mode and fullscreen for best results.

The video is made from lots of photographs taken with a cheap second-hand modified Canon Ixus 430 digital camera. Because each shot is a long exposure photograph of about 1 second it means that any light sources such as car lights or street lights become long light trails.

I created the video in Sony Vegas Pro 9 using the import image sequence option. The rendered file that has been uploaded to Youtube here is 252Mb

Driving Route :
Starting on Holcombe Street in Pear Tree, Derby
Left onto Dairy House Road, Pear Tree Road, Normanton Road, Mill Hill Lane, Mount Street, Burton Road, Abbey Street, Macklin Street, Becket Street, Wardwick, Cheapside, Strand, Wardwick, Cheapside, Bold Lane, Cathedral Road, Full Street, Corporation Street, Morledge,
St Alkmunds Way, Ford Street, Stafford Street, Friary Lane, Curzon Street, Uttoxeter New Road, Corden Avenue, Chain Lane, Burton Road, Manor Road, Uttoxter New Road, Uttoxeter Old Road, Friar Gate, Bridge Street, Agard Street, Ford Street, Friar Gate, Vernon Street, South Street, Uttoxter Old road, Slack Lane, Cheviot Street, Lyttelton Street, Brakensdale Avenue.

Music Credits :
Abyss 2 by Jesse Valentine
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/278217Licensed under Creative Commons

Please let me know if you like it.