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Thorax_In_A_Bog
08/06/09

In reply to Sony Party Shot Automatic Camera Mount Is For People Who Have Lots of Parties, But No Friends With Cameras
If the camera's a rockin', don't come a knockin'.

Right guys? It's funny 'cause... you know... old phrase...

You know what? Screw it. I'm going home...
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qbrad
08/06/09

@Thorax_In_A_Bog: Sap-sucker Frog.
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92BuickLeSabre
08/06/09

In reply to Sony Party Shot Automatic Camera Mount Is For People Who Have Lots of Parties, But No Friends With Cameras
11 Hours? That's when the party is just getting started!

At least that's kind of how I remember it.
Or maybe 11 p.m. is when the party started.
I mean, it's been a long time.
Years, even.
Actually 11 p.m. sounds pretty late.
I'm pretty much ready to go home and watch CNN by 11.
11 hours...HA!...I can't even stay awake for 11 hours in a day anymore.
This whole comment is making me tired.
God I'm old.
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Curves
08/06/09

In reply to Sony Party Shot Automatic Camera Mount Is For People Who Have Lots of Parties, But No Friends With Cameras
Why do I get the feeling this will be used to record parties of Two?
(Or more, and your dog, if thats what youre into, but dont let the ASPCA see them on your Faceboo page.)
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debbyherbenick
08/06/09

@Curves: Yes, I'm thinking that parties of two is the target audience here. Using it in a group party is just odd to me.
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jmeltzer
08/06/09

In reply to Sony Party Shot Automatic Camera Mount Is For People Who Have Lots of Parties, But No Friends With Cameras
First we have machines do our work for us, now they do our social life. When we let the machines take over our drunken party picture taking for us, we have already lost the inevitable war between human and robot.
A sad day indeed.
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AmphetamineCrown
08/06/09

@jmeltzer: I'll draw the line when a robot tries to take over the drinking part.
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ChibaCityCowboy
01/30/09

In reply to US Soldier Explains Why He Uses a Rifle Stock to Shoot Photographs
Years ago I saw some footage taken from a reporter's camera who had wound up recording his own death. I don't think he was using a rifle stock mounted camera, but in the hot zone, and in a US uniform, I don't think it would make that much difference safety-wise.
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Purple Dave
01/31/09

@ChibaCityCowboy:
Ernie Pyle is the war photographer whose last photo is of his dead body, shortly after he got killed by a Japanese machine-gunner during WWII, but there's another similar instance that happened more recently. In 2006, independant documentarist Brad Will was filming footage of the violent armed conflict in Oaxaca, Mexico when he was shot and killed. The video reportedly shows two armed gunmen in the distance, and right after one or both of them fire shots the camera was dropped. The belief is that Will actually filmed the shot that killed him. Both of these stories only show half of the story, and it's not the same half. One shows just the dead body after the fact, and the other shows just the killing act.
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Steeplebomb
01/31/09

@Purple Dave:

wow. morbid.
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Purple Dave
01/31/09

@Steeplebomb:
Yeah, in a way. But if you actually look at Pyle's photo, you can't really tell that he's not just sleeping or unconscious. There's supposed to be a bit of visible blood coming out of his mouth, but it's a B&W photo that was shot over 60 years ago. The image quality isn't exactly the greatest. And with the video, you can't actually tell _why_ the camera was dropped unless someone tells you.

And when you get right down to it, neither of these men was taking a walk through the park. Both were trying to document the real horrors that take place very far away from our mostly-secure little corner of the world (in the entire last century, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Unabombing are the only three comparable acts of violence that I can think of that have been perpetrated on US soil).
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OMG! Ponies!
01/30/09

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Stay safe and Godspeed, Sarge.
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