Here is one of my walk-along vids. In this case I am leaving the North Hall through the main exit route, looking around and going outside. I amuse myself with these recordings since they are done with a small digital camera that nobody notices.
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Nobody asked for your autograph. Were you wearing your Elvis disguise?
John – Tell us how your wore it or carried it and what type of camera it is. Seeme like it was well concealed.
Did you wear it on your head with a head band? On a Hat?
It reminded me of those times
that Letterman used to put a camera out on the streets of New York, only without
all that extraneous stuff like poignancy, a point, human interest, humor, or video and audio quality.
It’s a very small Kodak V705…I just hold it out like I’m looking to take a still picture and start walking around with it. Nobody pays much attention and it does not have the threatening nature of a camcorder when you point it at someone. It just doesn’t register as anything to anyone and you can get away with a lot of intrusion with it. I like doing these walk-arounds with the thing. I’ll try and post more of them. There is something surreal about the moments when you hear someone talking.
And note that the cam was used for this post here.. The sound was excellent considering the fact that this was a very noisy convention hall.
Thanks for the best coverage I have seen of CES 2008!
Hey, John, what kind of camera did you use for CES Cranky Geeks show?
I learned more about John than about CES:
1: John is tall
2: John walks almost twice as fast as everyone else
3: John can hold a camera really steady while walking twice as fast as everyone else.
At least speed it up 10x and it would be very Benny Hill-ish.
Add 720p HD (like the Kodak camera you showed on Cranky Geeks) and add HSDPA, WiMax and WiFi inside of it to stream that kind of video live onto the Internet and to upload it also directly from the camera to the blog and to sites like Youtube and podshow.
One other CES coverage that I enjoyed was Robert Scoble’s live video coverage from his Nokia cell phone, the video interviews he did were actually streaming live to mogulus.com and qik.com directly from his mobile phone.
Battery life is only 1h when streaming live over HSDPA or when uploading videos, so you’d need a battery pack or extra removable batteries to extend the battery life.
You should call this post “Being John Dvorak” ;^)
Very clever! In a way, a camcorder disguised as point and shoot camera.
It’s interesting in way how people dismiss a camera (unless you point it at them) yet freak with a camcorder.