Traffic

This Sunday was a big weekend for traffic--but just in the world of Hot Wheels. In the morning we did a traffic photoshoot. Note the hand-made jersey barriers dividing the road. I really liked these.



The afternoon revisited the traffic idea. Daddy and I watched the extended chase scene from the second part of The Matrix. While I generally don't like movies, this scene was quite exciting. We then set up the jersey barriers and a bunch of cars a trucks to recreate that scene as well as making up our own scene. This was very really fun. I can't wait to do it again!

[Aside: A little inside baseball about the connection between the chase scene and Mythbusters courtesy of the source of all knowledge--Wikipedia:

"The freeway chase scene was filmed at the decommissioned Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California. Producers constructed a 1.5-mile freeway on the old runways just for the movie (Which was later used by the Mythbusters in testing several myths). Portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube connecting Oakland and Alameda. Some post-production editing was done in old aircraft hangars on the base as well.

The city of Akron was willing to give full access to Route 59, the stretch of freeway known as the "Innerbelt", for filming of the freeway chase when it was under consideration. However, producers decided against this as "the time to reset all the cars in their start position would take too long".MythBusters would later reuse the Alameda location in order to explore the effects of a head-on collision between two semi trucks."]