Stillness is Overrated
September 17th, 2006 | Published in dispatch, tech | 5 Comments
Travel for the sake of moving. All footage here created using Nokia N73. This ties in with the earlier review. (Note: bits at the last part show up like that not because of any defect in the phone’s imaging sensor, but because… I really was driving in conditions like that where visibility was at bare minimum!)
Geography: waiting on a motorcycle taxi in Bangkok traffic, waiting in the rain in a Calcutta taxi, on board the Bangalore-Guwahati Express, busker on the Saraighat Express, demonstration that Reliance Wireless coverage works even on a moving train (man came on board with wireless phone offering to let passengers make phone calls.. that was the only thing he was selling. Wireless phone calls. Can you believe that?), pulling into Howrah station (Kolkata) at 8am after a 36 hour train ride, crossing the Hooghly, bus number 46 from Free School Street to Ultadanga, crazy techno in the rickshaw going to the Bangladeshi High Commission in Park Circus and Peter being crazier, driving from Shillong to Cherrapunjee in the swirling rain on a hairpin road, almost dying again and again on that road, in awe of the stillness of the clouds from Green Rock Ranch, in awe of the view from outside my bedroom in Cherrapunjee. Can you tell why I love travelling so?
September 17th, 2006 at 12:48 am (#)
Amazing. Thank you.
September 17th, 2006 at 11:30 am (#)
Ah neh’s got rhythm.
September 17th, 2006 at 2:43 pm (#)
Thank you Adri (may I call you that? heh), for sharing with us this wonderful video of a different world, seen through the eyes of a rugged traveller like you. ;) I’ve been reading your blog, and must say I’ve been very inspired by your travels and would really like to explore those places myself someday.
September 17th, 2006 at 6:50 pm (#)
nice! liked the review of the N73 - very topical.. I have been using Nokia phones for the last 3 years and have moved up the food chain from a basic 3315 (no cam), to the 3200 (a very basic cam) to a 6600 (a VGA 3.5 mm cam) and have been impressed with the phones’ versatility and ability to withstand punishment - air, water, corrosive conditions..
however, I am facing software issues with my 10 month old 6600 as the phone keeps on ‘hanging’, switching off during calls, while I am using the camera etc., also the memory card which I am using (a 64 MB one which came bundled with the phone) is prone to problems - recently corrupting itself, and having to be re-formatted, and i lost all the images and text messages on it.
I should have the Nokia Care fellas have a look at it.. let’s see what they say.. :o
December 28th, 2006 at 2:08 pm (#)
i sadly couldn’t see the last 1 minute of the video buddy… the dude singing in the train was too good!!! i plan to pick the N73 ME myself in a day or two, so am basically checking anything and everything that i can read about it on the web :P
your review was quite cool… and the pics that you displayed definitely re affirmed my faith in the carl zeis lens of the phone… hope that some day soon i’ll be shootin pics n vids from my N73 n puttin them up on the web for ppl to see….
BIG DREAMMZZZZZZZ
cheers!
sandy