Ah! Right: Discovery! I missed Picard or Janeway when I started this series .But it really grew on me. Cheesy 70's style gold. It inspired a desire to make a Startrek tribute using sock puppets. The world surely needs that :) (maybe one day)
I don't remember where I heard it, probably from one of my sketchy mentors, but I do remember the piece of advice: It's not the cameras you can see, it's the ones you can't see that you have to worry about.
I've had this thing going on with video since I was 13. A/V club in middle school, working at a TV shop in the late 1980s when I was in High School. Gave me access to some expensive pieces of gear I wouldn't normally have had access to. Worked ENG for one of the last small-town TV stations, some TSCM work for a PI, and then tech support for a company that did video surveillance and access control systems.
Does size matter? When it comes to cameras, yes it does. They've got some really small ones that are hardly noticeable--pretty much invisible if you're not looking for them. Mate them with a transmitter, and you can be at a safe distance while you covertly collect evidence for the country's next Watergate.
Overt video is great, as long as the people you're filming have some sense of morality and fear of prosecution. When they don't give a shit, it's a quick way to get arrested and as we've seen twice so far, killed. Covert video gets you the raw footage of what they do when they don't think anyone is watching, and keeps you out of the path of bullets.
Save the video for later. Give it to a trusted civil rights attorney, and hide another copy elsewhere. Anyone charged at a state level right now will just have their case moved to federal jurisdiction where charges will be dismissed and pardons issued. That won't be the case in the future. You want that evidence to be around when that is no longer the case.
I'm taking my baby steps towards this kind of storytelling. It's exciting to do it with the platforms and tools available to us today.
The Gilbert brothers have been doing this in comics for a long time in their Love and Rockets series.
Love and Rockets was such a good one. I haven’t read those in forever.
I've read some of them and enjoy, but above the stories I love the concept of a world that they keep building up and adding to over time.
The world itself is the best character in most stories that stick around for a long time.
Yameah it does become a character that influences things.
Funny, there's a Paul Stamets in Star Trek Discovery, a scientist dealing with... mycelial network.
He's also gay ;-)
Easily one of the best characters on that show.
I love that Startrek... Where the scientist becomes a link in the mycelium machine enabling space leaps...
(What a super fun series that was :)
As a certified Star Trek Nerd, that was Discovery. A lot of people disliked that series. I rather liked it.
Ah! Right: Discovery! I missed Picard or Janeway when I started this series .But it really grew on me. Cheesy 70's style gold. It inspired a desire to make a Startrek tribute using sock puppets. The world surely needs that :) (maybe one day)
I don't remember where I heard it, probably from one of my sketchy mentors, but I do remember the piece of advice: It's not the cameras you can see, it's the ones you can't see that you have to worry about.
I've had this thing going on with video since I was 13. A/V club in middle school, working at a TV shop in the late 1980s when I was in High School. Gave me access to some expensive pieces of gear I wouldn't normally have had access to. Worked ENG for one of the last small-town TV stations, some TSCM work for a PI, and then tech support for a company that did video surveillance and access control systems.
Does size matter? When it comes to cameras, yes it does. They've got some really small ones that are hardly noticeable--pretty much invisible if you're not looking for them. Mate them with a transmitter, and you can be at a safe distance while you covertly collect evidence for the country's next Watergate.
Overt video is great, as long as the people you're filming have some sense of morality and fear of prosecution. When they don't give a shit, it's a quick way to get arrested and as we've seen twice so far, killed. Covert video gets you the raw footage of what they do when they don't think anyone is watching, and keeps you out of the path of bullets.
Save the video for later. Give it to a trusted civil rights attorney, and hide another copy elsewhere. Anyone charged at a state level right now will just have their case moved to federal jurisdiction where charges will be dismissed and pardons issued. That won't be the case in the future. You want that evidence to be around when that is no longer the case.