Seems like the big thing these days is home videography is to put cameras on inanimate – or animate objects where they don’t usually go. I’ve come across a number of interesting examples recently. The first I’ll share uses one of those new “Go Pro HD” cameras you see advertised everywhere these days (I want one) mounted on a surfboard. Filming a sport I didn’t even know existed – surfing in a canal, using a rope to fix the board in place:
Then there was this one, using the same camera, but also with the aid of an iPhone (to aid retrieval) and a balloon, a DIY film-from-space:
Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.
And now there’s Cooper the photographer cat:
Vimeo recently held one of their “weekend projects” – No Tripod, No Cameraman – where they emphasized the same theme of challenging members to mount a camera someplace unconventional. You can see the results of the “No Tripod, No Cameraman” weekend project here.
Which gets me thinking. What would be some good places to mount a camera? To see things we normally can’t see, or in ways we don’t normally see them?
