- 2nd January 2004
HAPPY COO YEAR!
Well, it's been some time since I last updated this
site, but there's been a flutter of interest again since it was featured
in the end of year
best of b3ta list. Yay!
May be it's time for some more PigeonCam action...
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- 9th April 2003
More media attention in
PigeonCam has been brought to my attention by Mike Spontak, who
posted an entry in my guestbook informing me that
USA Today featured
this site in their Web Guide 'Hot Sites' section the other day. See for
yourselves
here. Cheers Mike!
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- 6th March 2003
Fame at last. Well, of sorts...
A clip of PigeonCam was used on tonight's ‘Live With…Christian
O’Connell’ in a feature called 'The Stupid Things Men Do' which I guess
is pretty apt.
I just hope I can use the remaining fourteen or so minutes of allotted
fame I have left more productively....
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- 4th March 2003
Had further communications
with the people from Channel 5. It looks like PigeonCam could be on
tomorrow's show along with a phone interview with me -
I dunno,
greater minds than mine sweat for years creating masterpieces
of art and literature
without any recognition, and I get on the ‘telly for harassing flying
vermin with a remote control car.
It's a funny old world...
Don't forget to set your videos...!
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- 3rd March 2003
OK, now things are getting silly now. I've just received an
e-mail from the producer of ‘Live With…Christian O’Connell’, a program
that goes out on Channel 5 Monday to Thursday at 7pm. They want to use the clips
on the show...!
As
Warhol said, we’re all due our 15 minutes of fame; it’s just a little
unsettling that mine has come from harassing pigeons…
Spurred by this unprecedented interest, I head off to Argos to buy a new RC
car. After much deliberation, I plump for the Nikko Mini Cooper at
£14.99. Apart from being a design classic and being the right side of
cheap without being totally kak, it has a nice flat roof for added
stability with camera fixing. I'm using my own Fuji FinePix A202
camera now; it's nothing special but it is light, which is a plus with
such a cheapo car. PigeonCam MkII is up and running and I head for what
must surely be the Mecca of pigeons - Trafalgar Square.
Sadly, the square is quite devoid of pigeons these days, thanks largely
to Mayor Ken Livingston's congestion charge for birds or something like
that. This is somewhat sad because as a child, I can remember swarms of
the beasts flapping all round me munching away on the feed available to
buy from a nearby stall. That is all a thing of the past. The stall is
long gone and with it most of the pigeons. A few die hard (or stubborn)
birds remain, but I was amazed to see that there are three or four guys
patrolling the square whose sole purpose seems to be to frighten the
pigeons away! What a job! I must confess I got a few jealous stares when
they saw the pigeon dispersing powers of my PigeonCam...
The pigeons that were there were a lot more streetwise compared to their
more tardy suburban cousins. Whereas the birds in Croydon used flight as
a last resort, the pigeons in Trafalgar Square nipped out of the way
with surprising agility. Perhaps I am unwittingly at the forefront of
some groundbreaking pigeon socio-cultural study? Perhaps I'm taking this
too seriously? Regardless, see the results
here.
I've been trying to create Mov
files of the videos but they're massive (200Mb+!) If anyone wants to
give me a few pointers on resizing them I'd be truly grateful as I cant
get my head around it!
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- 28th Feb 2003
Wow! PigeonCam has now been featured on the b3ta
weekly
newsletter! This is indeed a great honour. *BLUSH*
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- 23rd Feb 2003
The dust is blown off the files in my PC and PigeonCam is reborn.
Having
posted the files on
b3ta.com they appear to have gone 'viral'. See the response
here.
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