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Edited of the raw files from the Aurora Borealis live stream showing the Taurid Meteor Shower from the morning of 11/7/2015. Various clips showing the shooting stars or Fire Balls moving across the sky as the vivid northern lights dance on the horizon.

The earth is being impacted by a G2 Class Geomagnetic Storm this morning and vivid Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights were visible in the along the the northern part of the United States.

Time lapse footage of the Aurora just north of the town of Starbuck, MN which is located in west central Minnesota.

Amazing timelapse and real time footage of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights and shooting stars streaking across the sky on the north side of Saint Cloud, MN this morning.

Several inches of snow fell across northern Minnesota in Cass County. Unlike in southern Minnesota, the snow in northern Minnesota is staying around and is not melting on contact with the ground.

The last clips of the snow plows were shot near Fort Ripley, MN and not in Cass County.

Clip 1 Snow stuck to the State 64 and 24th Avenue sign.

Clip 2 Snow on the ground while the treated road surfaces were just wet as a truck drives by.

Clip 3 A pair of Swans in a pond with the snow falling.

Clip 4 Snow falling and covering a field. Wide shot.

Clip 5 POV driving shot with the snow covering the ground.

Clip 6 Tight shot of the snow covering the ground ans falling.

Clip 7 Snow falling with a POV shot as the snow covers the ground and the trees.

Clip 8 Snow falling as a truck drives by.

Clip 9 Snow falling on pine trees.

Clip 10 Snow falling as a white pickup truck drives by.

Clip 11 Snow falling and covering a field with trees in the background.

Clip 12 Wide shot of snow falling and covering the ground and hail bails in a open field.

Clip 13 Snow covering the ground and falling on this grass land area.

Clip 14 Medium shot of snow covering a hay bail and the field.

Clip 15 Tight shot of snow on fall color vegetation.

Clip 16 Tight shot of snow and ice on bare tree limbs.

Clip 17 Tight shot of snow on fall color vegetation.

Clip 18 Tight shot of snow on fall color vegetation.

Clip 19 Tight shot of snow on a branch of a pine tree.

Clip 20 POV shot of stop sign covered in snow.

Clip 21 POV shot of speed limit sign covered in snow.

*** Following clips shot near Fort Ripley, MN just south of Brainerd MN on the way up to the heavy snow in Cass County.

Clip 22-24 Snow plows. POV plow footage and tracking shots.

The first snow of the season fell over central Minnesota in the city of Saint Cloud.

Footage includes various B-Roll clips of snow falling with people waiting to cross the street, traffic, flags, and snow falling with fall colors in the background.

New footage from this morning of the Orionid Meteor shower that is picking up in intensity over the next few days.

The Earth is moving through the debris from Halley\’s Comet which is the source of the annual Orionid meteor shower.

Footage shot over an hour this morning of the numerous meteors streaking across the sky, many of which were in the Orion Constellation.

Wow, all I can say again is WOW, what a weekend at the Youtube Creator Conference in Chicago this weekend.  This was a special event put on by Youtube for a small select group of up and coming channels to help their creators grow a lot bigger.

This conference blew away a lot of the other ones that I have gone to for just the amount of information that it provided about the inner workings of Youtube.

The conference was a two day event in a studio in Chicago, IL and what was a huge surprise to us was that they covered all of the food, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on Friday and again on Saturday.  We just had to show up and sign some NDA paperwork about some details about what is new that is not released to the public yet and then soak up the knowledge and ask a ton of questions.

It was great meeting a lot of the other channel creators and everyone was having a great time.  The crew in the photo above was the group that had a bunch of fitness channels on Youtube.

This is weekend has us really excited and were thinking up a ton of new ideas for our channels and how to work all of our crews channels into each other for cross promoting and team building.

At the end of the course, we are now certified and allowed to use the Youtube Creator Spaces around the world and access to a whole team of people to help us grow the channel and new equipment in the Creator Space Studios.  

I know a few chaser’s complain about Youtube.  Complain all you want, StormChasingVideo.com and crew is about to go warp speed. 

And another cool thing we got this weekend in the new Play Button.  We even got this cool thing to frame and hang in the office. Don’t try to click on it the image below thinking its a video, that’s the certification award we both got to take home.

Vivid Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights filled the sky over Duluth, MN on the shores of Lake Superior this morning as the earth was hit by a G2 Geomagnetic Storm per the Space Weather Prediction Center.

Video includes various different clips of the northern lights dancing in the sky above the city. Time Lapse footage form the master camera, real time video available upon client request.

Here is something new that we are starting up with StormChasingVideo.com  Were starting up a new video blog talking about our videos and we discuss more of what happened in them.  The first one is from last week’s lightning video from Saint Cloud, MN and the “Phantom Bolt” that showed up.

In this video we discuss more of what happened in last week’s lightning video from Saint Cloud, MN and the “Phantom Bolt” that showed up.

Many year’s ago, I was inspired by watching Stanley Kubricks work with tearing apart what was the status quo in cinematography and his use of insane idea’s and camera mods to get the shot he wanted. 

I was just starting out with Breaking News Video Network back then and technology (and funding) were in short supply 15 years ago.  Hell we were just coming on line with high speed DSL and the ability to edit and encode footage on our computers and upload them to The Weather Channel.  The other networks were not even using FTP back then as it was brand new idea from moving away from Satellite Uplinks.  I remember a couple trips to CNN to visit Arnie Christianson and explain what we were doing to get weather footage out from the field and they saw the light and the politics in the field to get video packages out for the upcoming elections. 

I have always been kicking around some insane camera mod ideas to be able to document the Auroras in real time as opposed to the Time Lapsed stitched together still photography.  For some it looks ok, but personally, I freaking hate it.  It is not real. 

Last year I got to spend the afternoon with Shane Hurlbut who was giving a class in Minneapolis, MN about lights and lighting in cinematography and did the idea’s just start coming to light.  You could say a light-bulb came on in my head, I had some bright ideas.  Ok too many uses of the word light

How to take the latest technology and without spending millions on the Kubrick F0.7 lens setup, what could I do to get that look for under $50,000.00?  While not looking to spend an insane amount on Zeiss glass, I would need to do something to get under the F1.0 range and do it with video.  After looking at a lot of different options, mods, retrofits, I remembered the Kubrick story and something Shane said about the need for light and joking about Need for Speed (he was part of that movie).  So the hunt was on and is still on for fast glass.    

The result of faster glass is more light on the camera sensor and more detail and more videos like this one from earlier this morning.  Here are the auroras over the lake near Avon, MN.

Amazing Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights footage from around 345 to 415 this morning just northwest of the Twin Cities in the town of Avon. The footage was shot overlooking Spunk Lake (yes that is the real name) in Avon, MN at the peak of the Geomagnetic Storm this morning when it was a G3 Class storm.

Watch for the Shooting Star around 1:19 in the video.

Clip 1 Long shot of the Auroras and pan to the right as the lights dance in the sky and reflect off the lake.

Clip 2 Wide shot of the auroras reflecting off the lake.

Clip 3 Tighter shot of the auroras flickering in the sky and reflecting off the lake.

Clip 4 Wide shot of the Auroras filling the sky with light and reflecting arc of light on the water.

Clip 5 Tighter shot of the auroras with a pan to the left showing them dancing in the sky.

Clip 6 Shot of the Auroras with a Northern Lights Wall Cloud looking structure under the main band of lights.

Clip 7 Northern lights band filling the sky and reflecting off the water.