I woke up in the middle of the night last week, thinking about something that I’d forgotten. In addition to all the photos I took while I worked at Apple, I remembered that I’d shot video occasionally. It took some serious digging to find it in my massive pile of DV tapes, but today I can present the first tidbit.
In May of 2000 I was learning how to use a Steadicam Jr camera stabilizer that I’d bought on eBay, and was walking around the campus trying to get it to work. This segment is from that ‘practice’ session. It’s a two minute ’stroll’ through the Apple WWDC party, held at Apple in May of 2000. Entertainment provided by the Rippingtons.
The clip is 12MB in QuickTime MPEG-4 format (iPod and iTunes compatible). To spread the load around, I mirrored it on three different servers. Pick one:
Faruk – No, that’s not Guy.
What’s with that slow-mo at 1:20 – is there something we should know walking past the camera at that point?
Eros – clever question that. At that point I was re-aiming and focusing the camera, resulting in a lot of bad video, but I wanted to keep the audio track to lead into the Rippington’s segment. So I let the audio track go and stretched the video to fit. Mike
Mike, this video is great.
I love the unedited feel of it, it’s a direct, maybe even personal look back in time to a very special place.
I can almost smell the BBQ
If you have any more of such footage, you absolutely have make it public here on your site!
heh I am glad you did not go over to the Hardware corner (each department had their own little group talking about things wearing different colord t-shirts). I looked so goofy then lol
I love it! Thanks for posting this!
Do you have any more? Please post whatever you may have from WWDC stuff! Bravo!