22-IX-2015.
The video camera arrived. It's near perfect - fits into a pocket, has loads of functions, battery and memory can survive about two hours of shooting, has insane zoom and image stabilization. It's good that such things didn't exist back then - I might have ended up making movies instead of doing this :). The only downside is that the shutter switch is in the wrong place, to be operated by thumb from behind, which is good if you're holding the camera to your eye or held high. This doesn't have a visor, it has the little swivel screen, which I don't see clearly this close, so I have to move it away and then thumb operation becomes really awkward. They should have put it somewhere on top.
The idea (Stanley's) was to use the ten kittens as the story, just follow what they're doing. Then edit it into short stories and put on youtube, the people love cats and watch those silly cat videos just to relax. With millions of hits, some serious money may be coming in.
Which I eventually did, over time, as far as it went: I took perhaps an hour of shots altogether. I even bought some (quite good!) editing software and learned how to use it. Edited two vids of a couple of minutes each. Created a new identity at the Gugao (even though it pestered me with "do you want to put these two accounts together?", "gimme your cell phone number so if someone hacks your account we pass you a message to restore it" (and put all your dots together as well), "are you sure you are not this guy?" etc etc) only to find out that my total number of views never exceeded few hundreds. And I even made some good shot of my single hand clap (yes I can do it and so can the girls, perhaps not all of them and/or not on each hand). And then just after posting I also found that the paperwork needed to actually make money from the google is extensive and requires your full identity what with rectinal scan and a bank account. Nice. Not only they want to put my searches (also previously what I wrote on the blog or the pics I put on Panoramio) but now my address, cell phone, bank account. Want my pants down too? Fuck off.
Mentions: Gugao, Stanley Berger, in serbian
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