Why does everything have to be so interesting all the time? Here is my attempt to balance the scales by producing something incredibly boring.
Called ‘Travelling on an up escalator’, this video breaks every rule in the book and has little to commend it from an aesthetic point of view. However, I won’t say what those rules are for reasons given in the next paragraph.
However, in a strange sort of way, my attempt to produce a very boring video has been unsuccessful because it is interesting to discuss why it is boring. Or even if it is boring: there are other videos on YouTube on the subject of escalators. How strange.
There is a serious side to all this. For a long time now I have carried a camera with me everywhere in order to be able to take pictures with which to illustrate my articles. However, video is potentially more interesting, so I have just started taking a Flip video recorder with me wherever I go.
I don’t know how well this will work out. I don’t wish to spend more than a few minutes adding a title and some credits, and uploading a video. I don’t have the time or inclination to do lots of editing. What I would like to do is build up a library of video clips for all occasions. It’s an experiment. If I decide to discontinue it, I’ll report on why.
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