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Aerial Video

I’ve been working on applying my experience with photography and what little I know about video to my newly acquired Part 107 Certification and drone. So far, I’m enjoying it and seem to have more issues with video than actual aeronautics. (I’ve always been a flying buff, and used to skydive, so the flying end of it makes a lot of sense to me.)

My latest videos from flying downtown..

I’ll be posting more as I get better, but also check out my aerial photography gallery.

Jim Says: “I meant to do that.”

We’ve all heard the complaints, “Facebook is censoring posts to support the Biden campaign.” We’ve all seen the use of alleged “fact Checkers” to try to manipulate opinions by using their own particular half truths.

For example, when the so called “fact checkers” claim “Partly False: Hillary Clinton was not in court. Her legal team appears at a hearing..” Legally, yes, her attorneys represent her in court and her physical presence is not necessary. Any order of the court in a case she is a part of, applies directly to her. And in common parlance, saying someone appeared in court means that their case was heard. When someone sues Apple, the entire company doesn’t show up in the court room, just the legal representatives. I’m surprised “fact checkers” haven’t begun citing “What Was Said First v. Goes”.

So, it finally happened to me. I created a post that was centered around the fact that social media, big tech and others are blocking all coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story to prevent it from hurting his campaign. My post was taken down by Facebook citing that it violates their “community standards.”

I have reported the action requesting citation of what community standards were violated, but do not expect an answer and I read through them and cannot even find a close interpretation. My post is basically a screenshot of a friends post. They both contain a URL to GNews.com, mine is not clickable. There is no adult language, graphic images, nor content. No hate speech. Not even a call to action. Nothing that would seemingly violate any of Facebook’s declared standards. Yet, here we are.

AVERT YOUR EYES, HERE IS THE “OFFENSIVE” POST..

I’m going to start deleting my content from Facebook and, after the election, deleting the account. Please feel free to bookmark my homepage as I’ll be making use of this site exclusively from now on.

Jim Says: “Remember, if you are getting a service for free, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

#FuckFaceBook

Picked up a new camera, the Insta360 One bundle from the Apple Store. I mounted it as a “flying rig” on the included selfie stick, so that it was just over my right shoulder. I’ll be editing to include better audio in the future as the built in mic was rather loud wind noise.

Jim Says: “This whole *going outside* thing might not be as terrible as I originally thought.”

I just picked up an Apeman A80 from Amazon and mounted it on my handlebars to test the gyro and get an idea of image quality. (Filmed in 1080, but converted to 720 for YouTube.)

Audio was recorded using an Olympus digital recorder with a mic in the pocket of the pack on the back of the bike. The camera did pick up decent audio without much wind noise while in the waterproof case.

Jim Says : “Well worth the extra effort.”

Greatest Spam EVER!!!

This came in today..

email

Greatest spam ever!

 

I admit, I am intrigued. I googled the domain that it was sent from, and sadly it does not exist. I’m tempted to reply just to see if I can get the rest of the story.

The bigger question is, if I turn this into a screenplay, can I be sued? I would never plagiarize, but my mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. [1]Ditto!

Anyway, this was better than any TV I’ve seen today. Thank you, random internet jackass!

Jim Says:”Will Rogers ever find love? Where is Jones now? What will we tell the magicians?”

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1 Ditto!