A Golden Egg containing Retro Tech
Here's the next video - a day early for patrons.
Due to reasons beyond my control I've had to schedule the next two videos after this one to auto-publish. So with those videos you'll only get to see them at the same time as everyone else. Apologies for that.
An interesting snippet... my Oscilloscope Music video has proved very popular and has driven a lot of traffic and interest towards Jerobeam Fenderson (aka Chris) the creator of this work. We've been in touch a few times and he's kindly created an oscilloscope music TECHMOAN channel ident for me that looks (and sounds) extremely cool. I hope to be able to debut this in the new year. I'm not sure when to use it though. I don't really want to replace my new reel-to-reel based intro, perhaps I'll use it on the shorter videos or something.
By the way, I was thinking that on shorter videos (under 10 mins), It would make sense to show the patreon list as cards of static text so it doesn't take up as great a percentage of the overall video's running time as it does at present. I do like the scrolling version and want to keep this on longer videos (over 10 mins). Let me know if you're not happy with this proposal.
Anyway that's it for a couple of weeks - however we'll chat again closer to Christmas.
Comments (9)
Interesting piece. And the puppets just keep getting better.
That all sound good to me 👍
I am always amazed how you manage to come up with those weird fantastic items and gadgets I never heard or even thought of. And the muppet show afterwards was flippin' hilarious!
Ah... nice to have real authority that it came from Seiko. I just remember specifically seeing Seiko branded hair dryers and nose hair clippers piled high at a dodgy store in the 80s. To think that they could have been handling the dodgy genuine product instead... ;D Thanks for the details!
Are there other indications that it's genuinely Seiko? I recall in the 80s seeing lots of bootleg items co-opting established brands in their packaging, and I feel like Seiko is a brand I saw exploited that way frequently...
Yes the Warranty/Instruction leaflets all refer to Seiko Instruments U.S.A. Inc., Consumer Products Division, 2990 W. Lomita Blvd, Torrance, CA 90505 - The model no. is Talking Egg (TE100).
My 2 pence is that cards of static text are fine ;-). Not fair teasing about the oscilloscope music... I can't wait to see it and I'm all for instant gratification (i.e. no patience) but I'll be a good egg and wait ;-)
It's only a 5 second intro - when I asked him if he'd do it, he sent it back in a day or so and it's exactly what I imagined. I'll have to set up the oscilloscope again to record it though - I've only tried it on the software scope so far. Getting the lighting set up for that oscilloscope video and avoiding any reflections took hours to get right, so I need to have a half day free to capture it properly.
lol, dat smartwatch