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Looking west down 42nd Street. Taken with the pocket-sized Kodak Zi-6 from Park Avenue, the part that's elevated and goes around Grand Central. Music by Philip Glass from Koyaanisqatsi. It's amazing how good Glass' music is that some schlub can take a video of a busy Manhattan street using a pocket-sized camera and it comes out feeling like it's a clip from the film. Leitmotif, anyone?

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  • Rick Umali 1 year ago
    I always find NYC streets mesmerizing. Good quality out of that Zi-6!
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  • robertogreco 1 year ago
    Reminds me of the 2min15 blog I recently discovered, just shorter. Have you seen it?
    2min15.blogspot.com/
    vimeo.com/user672402
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  • manpikin 1 year ago
    A little tripod stand would help the footage considerably.
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  • Jorge Quinteros 1 year ago
    Video actually looks very decent. I'm not much of a videographer but I'm currently in the market for something that renders great video and has that portability factor. I've been considering the DXG-569V.
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  • Jayel Aheram plus 1 year ago
    I have been waiting for this to come out for quite some time now. I have a 600 dollar camcorder, but it is way, way, way too big for me to be carrying around. How many minutes of 720p video will a 4GB card hold?
  • Scott McMillin 1 year ago
    For the Zi6 at HD 30fps it looks to be about 1MB/sec of video. So a 4GB card would be about 68 minutes.
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  • Pablo Korona 1 year ago
    i'm actually more impressed with the title. Very clever.
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  • Ianf 1 year ago
    Jason, did you speed it up a wee bit perhaps, synced it to Philip Glass' original score? I find it hard to believe 42-St-dwellers walk that fast, even were they natives...
  • Jason Kottke 1 year ago
    Yeah, it's sped up a bit. I wanted to speed it up more but I only shot 90 seconds of video.
  • Ianf 1 year ago
    Thanks a bunch, Jason, for a couple of sleepless nights.

    I didn't realize this was more of a DIY New-York-hommage to "Koyaanisqatsi," than a demo of Kodak Zi6's HD-picture quality (John Gruber certainly implied that, and there aren't, as yet, many such around on those intertubes of ours ;-)).

    So I tried to determine whether the apparent jerky people movements on the street were perhaps(?) an artefact of your enhancing it with separate sound afterwards, and (could be) mixing up some timecode or something. Because at my end, in 50Hz-power frequency Europe, it clearly looked artificially speeded up by a factor of [60fps/50Hz]=1.2. Glad you cleared that up; wish it was stated explicitly from the beginning THIS IS NOT YAZI6DEMO.
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  • Aunt Bee 1 year ago
    I'm a bit concerned about the way that bus is weaving around the street.
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  • paul merrill 1 year ago
    Great video! Really good colors.
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  • lonelysandwich plus 1 year ago
    Well-titled, too.
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  • Matt 1 year ago
    I think we should have a Vimeo party in Times Square
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  • ailatanotos plus 1 year ago
    NIce MIx, i like your rithm sense.
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  • Pierre 1 year ago
    Nice to see west 42nd street! Will fly over very soon. Our hotel is there somewhere. Thank you for sharing :)
    Would filming with a tripod be a problem in NYC?
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