More 30-Second Audio-Visual Field Recordings

I’ve been enjoying using the Story mode on Instagram to post brief (30-second) audio-visual field recordings with light annotation. An Instagram Story is simple to produce, meaning (1) the dreaded modern sense of unpaid labor is minimal (as long as you don’t overdo it), and (2) they sync with my phone (without an Instagram logo), so they’re reusable elsewhere (though I tend to repost them without the tags and other text elements). Those are still frames from my most recent two above. The one on the left was recorded during Golden Hour in Berkeley, the first time I attended an event at the Alembic, and the one on the right was shot in the bathroom of a take-out joint in the North Bay: two very different drones, both abrasive, one outdoors, one indoors. They’re part of my “30s” (or “30 seconds”) Highlights series at instagram/dsqt, and the raw videos are on YouTube (golden hour and bathroom). (Collections of Instagram Stories are called Highlights.) Interestingly, if you upload short vertical videos to YouTube, they automatically get filed as Shorts, which is YouTube’s attempt at Instagram Stories.