I carry this little camera with me almost everywhere I go. It’s about the size of the palm of my hand, it runs on AA batteries that I can get anywhere and it shoots HD video. Better HD video, it happened, than anything else I had at the time when they blasted the ring beam off the Metrodome in February.
That was the day my car nearly killed me.
This camera fits in a pocket, has good resolution and is better than an phone camera. Marginally. And proved to me, as I have learned before, that life works in mysterious ways.
As happy as I was with the 54,000 listens to the mysterious ice sound I recorded in February, I logged in to upload some Vikings stadium video and discovered that the video I shot of the explosive Metrodome demolition had gotten 167,000 hits in the first week in February.
Again: graduate journalism education, thousands of dollars worth of professional sound and video equipment, a 25 year career in the business, and the most-consumed work I have ever done is a 30 second clip with a $200 point-and-shoot camera that bounces around in my pocket all day.
Tim Nelson 