Saturday was a big day at The Amaz!ngMeeting 6 in Las Vegas. I was one of the speakers, but we also had quite a few others talking about all sorts of cool things.
One problem: the Flamingo hotel A/V crew, in their near-infinite stupidity, screwed up the audio of the entire day. All Randi’s group has is video, with no sound. Besides making DVD sales difficult, this means we’ve lost the record of that day for posterity as well.
If you were at TAM 6, and you took audio (or video) of the meeting on Saturday, please please please send it to the JREF! Contact Rich — rich "at" randi "dot" org — and let him know, and he’ll be able to give you info on how to send it in. You can also get more info on the JREF bulletin board.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Obviously the Flamingo hotel A/V crew are not skeptics. (wishing he had been able to go to TAM6, much less take audio and/or video recordings)
July 10th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Oh, man! Good thing TAM will be somewhere else next year. I wish I could help. I hope Randi gets lots of help, I’m sure there were many people taking video.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Damn, that’s a screw up of colossal proportions.
I’ve lost audio before, but not a whole days worth, yikes!
July 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I felt a disturbance in the Force. As if a million antiscientists just chuckled and were suddenly silenced but still snickering behind their hands.
Get that audio. If push comes to shove, I’ll pre-order a DVD to help with financial compensation.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Are you kidding me?!?!? I COULD have recorded the audio, and I was thinking about doing it; but I didn’t because I thought Randi and the JREF wouldn’t like it because it was bootlegging!!! I’m such a fool!! AGGGGGG!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Arg! I’m really kicking myself. I had a reasonably high quality audio recorder in my pocket the whole time, and I fully intended to use it. Until I saw the camera crew there and thought “certainly their recordings will be better than mine, and I wouldn’t want to keep or post online any material that JREF was trying to sell on the DVDs”. So I recorded nothing. Damn.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Off topic, sorry:
In the Shadow of the Moon will be airing on the Science Channel starting tomorrow at 8PM central. It will also be aired at 11PM, 3AM, and at 9AM, all times CDT (GMT -6 if one wants to be more standardized).
July 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Well, this happens in movies all the time. All you have to do is get all the speakers back into a recording studio to re-record their lines while watching the video to get the lipsync. ADR FTW.
Oh, wait, practicality… Hmmmm.
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July 11th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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July 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Are you sure this wasn’t some kind of goverment co-op a.k.a “Louisiana’s growing”