Last weekend, we tied an old mobile phone to a kite, and flew it on Blackheath! Have a look at the youtube video above!
This is something that I’ve wanted to try for about 10 years, but never had a camera that should shoot video, could take photos on a timer, or one that I wasn’t scared about dropping from a great height.
The results are not that wonderful, and certainly not a patch on this guy’s attempt. But he had a much fancier cameraphone than mine, and gaffer tape, whilst we had to make do with elastic bands to hold the phone!
I think I need to try making a Picavet Suspension… Then maybe I can take Blackheath’s equivalent of this photo
Without the devastating earthquake beforehand, obviously (photo from 1906 in wikipedia)
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Jeepers! Made me feel incredibly sea sick just watching. Brilliant idea all the same, and I can’t think of a better place to try it out.
But the next version will be better!
Absolutely marvellous!
I love this kind of thing. I wanted to do something similar but settled on taping a camera to a long pole and waving it about…
See also Michael Snow’s “Northern Region” all 3 hours of it…
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