I turned in my application for the Houston art car parade today! Actually I faxed it to my friend Tim Klein, of the spectacular yarn car. We're turning in our applications together and asking them to place us together in the line-up. Our plan is to run webcams from both cars, but he doesn't have a cell modem. We're going to try staying close enough together that we can keep a wireless network running so he can connect through mine.
I'm really excited about the parade. Our dear friends Peggy and Chris are going to ride with us again, and this time we're also going to spend a little time with them in Austin either before or after the parade. We were worried about Georg getting extra time off, but if we can push the drive a little harder and make it in two days instead of three, that will give us a couple of days extra without needing more time off work.
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do you need to borrow my cams again?
If I may, that would be great!
sure! the firewire cams are mounted on big magnets. are those the ones you want to borrow? i can't remember what you did last year. they look better, a lot better.
the software i used was 'image caster' and it's really nice in a lot of ways. we did experience a few software crashes, but not so many that i would not use it again. the ability to enter captions on the fly is nice. getting the video settings right took some experimenting.
I'm pretty sure that's what I did at Artscape -- your firewire cams and Imagecaster. The only problems I recall were a total system crash if the camera is unplugged while the software is running (which never happened to us, as my "lieutenant in charge of cams" Prudence always remembered to shut down the software before unplugging the cam), and also the software couldn't tell if we lost the net connection. Other than that, it was great.