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February 28, 2014
About that Supreme Court video
I have a teensy-weensy bit of advice for protestors and civil-disobedients: whoever is photographing your history-making moment should be sure to set the date and time on their camera...especially if the camera is set to display the date and time in the video itself.
The Young Turks offer an edited version where the date shown is "2008/01/01." C'mon, the days of the blinking clock on the VHS recorder ended in the 20th century. But at least the date of the act can easily be confirmed by everybody who attended the Supreme Court two days ago.
Here's the list of Youtube videos uploaded by SCOTUSpwned, all of which were uploaded February 26, 2014, even though they seem to come from earlier dates. A lot of what you'll see is blackness. The photographer started recording and put the camera in a pocket long before pulling it out during Supreme Court proceedings.
This video says "2013/10/08" which is probably a correct date.
And this one is "2008/01/01" again. This seems to be the raw video shot this week. It's 18:53 long, and all but the last 30 or 40 seconds are dark or obscured with muffled audio. Only at the very end does the camera come out for the moment of protest.
A simple statement in the description giving us the actual date the video was shot would clear things up.
Here's the press release from the group that the protestors are with. As long as I'm being picky, I'm fairly sure that where they use the word "arcane" they mean "archaic." There's nothing arcane about a simple rule that bans cameras in the room. Archaic? Yes.
The brief SCOTUSblog post about the protest.
Filed under History,Photography | permalink | February 28, 2014 at 09:13 AM
