Today after a slow start dealing with tripod falling apart and with my computer conking out, I got the camera mostly lined up and took several frames, which will be visible under this snippet:
The last five seconds of the snippet are new.
Great news is that we are very close to finishing this snippet with a chopstick falling out of the sky, and therefore close to filming the backstory of how that chopstick came to fall in such a manner.
The falling / fallen chopstick will be cut by G Choppy and used as a support for the outer spiral.
Here are the frames taken today: