Vodcasting experiment

In these days of lightening fast technology advancement, what seems to be the latest and greatest quickly becomes just plain late and not very great.

Such was the fate of Rabid’s podcasting experiment, despite a huge investment in equipment from the US, which actually earned more money for FedEx and UPS than it did for the resellers of the gear.

No real surprise there, ever since hardware stores learned they could make more money selling gold-digging shovels than was ever actually made by their customers digging for gold.

But just two weeks? That’s got to be one of Rabid’s shortest life cycle of technology experiments to date.

The nerdy nephew reliably informs us that podcasting is totally passé and vodcasting is the way of the future.

Exactly why it’s called vodcasting instead of vidcasting escapes us.

The good news is Sk8er Boi assured us we can re-use all the audio gear we’ve invested in to produce the soundtrack for the vodcasts.

In case we didn’t mention it earlier, those nights spent behind the sound desk at the local pub weren’t just idly wasted away twiddling knobs and sliding sliders.

No sir, Rabid was also an early pioneer of promotional film clips for pub rockers and, of course, in time-honoured fashion, all the gear was still in the garage – somewhere.

Right then, off we went to eBay to acquire the video equipment for the vodcasting experiment.

What was that? Yeah, well the tripod will come in handy and the clapper board still claps, but apparently nobody shoots vodcasts on Super-8 movie cameras.

Who knew? There’s always an upside to every upgrade and this time it’s the crazy prices collectors on eBay are paying for antiquated Super-8 equipment.

Don’t ask us how we got fungus inside a telephoto lens – we always thought that was just part of the groovy effects that appealed so much to pub rockers.

Either that or too many schooners of black had been consumed while filming – by the camera operator.

No point crying over spilt beer, even if it was spilt over the cameras.

We always thought we’d solved the problem with negative feedback by using phase shifters on the mixing desk until we noticed our trashed eBay ratings for selling not-so-Super-8 kit.

Not long after forking out another wad of cash to international couriers we had the vodcasting studio completed and ready to record our very first video missive.

Luckily Sk8er Boi’s sister passes for what’s known as attractive these days,
after we convinced her to extract the multitude of metal bits from her face.

It’s not that we’re old and stodgy and don’t find facial piercings the least attractive – it’s the way they reflect the lights back into the camera.

Honestly.

As soon as we can all agree on a script, we’ll be on the air with Rabid Reality Reseller, our exciting fresh look at the goings on inside a busy technology shop.

It’s taking longer than expected to convince the nephew that reality shows are actually scripted. As they say in the vodcasting business, tune in next time for more outrageous revelations and cast your vote to evict someone from the shop.

Gotta go! Customers waiting.

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