The video actually comes through quite nicely. It's interesting that the
people in the background and the object on the right (a curtain?) seem
to be clearer than Andy himself. The whole piece would be improved too
without the white light feedback right in the center of the screen. If
you get the chance, another similar shoot with just a tiny bit of
attention to lighting might yield an even more exciting result.
Overall...very cool. 4 ice cubes for a hot day in Ghana (and NYC!)
Jim Lerman
Will Reed wrote:
Andy,
You are pretty cool!
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:02 PM
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Subject: [DDN] smart phone video blogging in Ghana
Hi everyone,
About an hour ago, I posted an entry on my blog about some of the
technical challenges to video blogging here in Ghana, including
bandwidth and the cost of video cameras. I noted that it might be
possible for Ghanaians to explore smart phones with bluetooth wireless
as a way of getting around the need for video cameras, but first we'd
have to see the growth of smart phones here.
A few minutes later, a local blogger named Mustapha introduced himself.
As we chatted, he saw my Treo 600 phone and he said that he just got a
Treo 650, which has both video and bluetooth. I told him about my blog,
so we decided to see how hard it would be to use the treo for video
blogging here in Ghana. He shot 30 seconds of me talking about video
blogging, and he beamed it to my laptop via Bluetooth. I then compressed
it as two Quicktime files, one 500k and the other 1.5 megs, then
uploaded it via the wi-fi hotspot at the BusyInternet restaurant. The
results can be found here:
http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/07/smartphonebluet_1.html
It's far from perfect - it looks like I recorded it on a video phone -
but it certainly was easy to do. I'll have to do some research to see
how prevalent smart phones are here in Ghana, because it might increase
the possibility of more Ghanaians getting involved in video blogging...
-andy
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.tsunami-info.org
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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