Now that I have a mobile phone that takes decent video (320 X 240 @ 15 fps) I'll try to put out crappy little videos more often. I envy vloggers like Richard Bluestein, the man behind Madge Weinstein's makeup, who can put out any old video and not be self-conscious about the quality. I want to be more like him. Or her. Whatever.
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14 responses so far ↓
1 scott
// Feb 14, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Very nice video. Your phone captures great image quality when relatively stationary (pretty good when moving too). Sound quality pretty good as well. Does it have a microphone input of some sort?
That's a lot of fuel food you were stocking up on.
Thanks for the cool video.
2 Rich Pav
// Feb 14, 2007 at 8:42 pm
If I eat any less than that I lose weight. Problem is, eating that much puts me into a food coma. I should have bought a box of those creme filled chocolate covered cookie pie things. A year from now I'll be 40 and have to start eating more healthily.
That stupid little video took an hour to upload and I still have to fix it so it gets added to the RSS feed. And the comments are broken since I upgraded WordPress. And I'm goddamn 39 years old. But I just bought myself a 2nd birthday present: a memory cartridge for the DS so I can play "homebrew" games and such. My first present was this bitchin' new phone I'm using to type this. I'm on the train right now.
3 Carl
// Feb 14, 2007 at 9:34 pm
This is a first video and thank you! Your hair, it's long!!! Every other video your shaved or just a little hair. I agree with Scott the video on that is actually really nice, mine is just bad.
4 Darren
// Feb 14, 2007 at 9:45 pm
One thing that impresses me about Japan is how people treat the customer, from little shops to cafe/restaurants its always polite and respectful, although I got the impression that this is not reciprecated by the customer. When I was in Japan I tried to be very polite even to the cleaner in the hotel.
5 mike
// Feb 15, 2007 at 4:01 am
That was great! It kind of reminded me of your old (clie?) video of the grocery store. The video looks superb considering its only a ketai.
These sort of short clips with the phone would make really interesting material I think. Like short clips of stores, streets, stations, etc. Very cool!
6 Drew
// Feb 15, 2007 at 4:36 am
maybe you could hang the phone from a necklace?
7 Charlie
// Feb 15, 2007 at 5:05 am
Wow you grew your hair in. Nice look dude. And a nice phone too. I want one heh.
Yes i have to agree with Darren on how people treat customers. That's something we here in America could learn from. It would be nice to walk into a 7/11 to that kind of politeness.. then again i don't think i'd know how to react if that were the case hehe.
8 David
// Feb 15, 2007 at 6:49 am
Hey, I really enjoyed this video as well! I thought the quality was just fine. I was wondering, how much did all of it cost? Thanks again Rich!
9 Anthony
// Feb 15, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Is it strange that I found watching the store clerk pack your bag to be very relaxing..?
10 Rich Pav
// Feb 15, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Yes.
11 tokyobilly
// Feb 15, 2007 at 2:00 pm
glad to see you are back on the vlogging waggon!
12 Jay
// Feb 17, 2007 at 12:41 am
When you got to point of paying I became wistful to visit Japan again. I had the habit of getting up before everyone else in my inlaws house and walk to the convini down the street for a snack and walk around neighborhood to see what was around.
-Jay
13 Jack
// Feb 19, 2007 at 1:59 am
I agree that these short clips are great to watch. Unfortunately my ipod doesn't play video so I watch them on my laptop at home. I think 2-3 minutes is ideal. By the way, quality is very good for a cell phone. I like the shots where you focused on the items you were buying. Anyway, I look forward to some more short videos.
14 missb
// Feb 23, 2007 at 5:40 am
I could spend some serious money in a Japanese convenience store. Sooooooo many wonderful snackfoods! There's a little Japanese store that opened in my neighborhood (Family Market) where I can get some of my international snacking needs met; Pocky and Pretz, grape Gummys, decent instant noodles and steak-flavored potato chips!
Your phone takes good video!
(not a day goes by that I don't say to myself "What would Madge do…")