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Dreamy Santa Monica Pier Video Feels Like Floating
Filmmaker affixes a camera to a R/C airplane and pilots it over the Santa Monica Pier, through the Ferris wheel and over the roller coaster.
A new video by R/C cameraman Robert Mcintosh makes you feel like you are floating.
The video was filmed at dawn, the sun rising over Venice in the background, and is set to a chillwave track. It opens with the camera gliding in front of a lifeguard tower and over the water line as waves crash gently onto Santa Monica Beach. It soars above the Santa Monica Pier and glides effortlessly through the spokes of the Ferris wheel before following the tracks of the Pacific Park roller coaster.
"I live on the Westside and one day I was looking at it and I thought it would make for some nice scenery to see flying by," Mcintosh said.
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When asked by Yo!Venice! how he "threaded the needle," he said, "I just held my breath and tried not to blink."
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