Video camera mounted to Coke bottle

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 18, 2008 2:18 PM | permalink

Cool videos using a video camera mounted to a Coke bottle. Video mounted to Coke bottle

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#1 posted by elk , November 18, 2008 2:59 PM

Anyone else get the creepy feeling that this site was made by the coca-cola company?

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#2 posted by PaulR , November 18, 2008 3:16 PM

A Video camera mounted to Coke bottle? Really?

You're saying that it's a Video camera mounted to Coke bottle?

A Video camera mounted to Coke bottle! I wouldn't have guessed.

That picture confirms it though. It really IS a Video camera mounted to Coke bottle...

OK, I'll stop.

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#3 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, November 18, 2008 3:23 PM

I knew the first post would be about the fact that they used a Coke bottle, instead of a comment on the video effect.

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#4 posted by David Carroll , November 18, 2008 3:58 PM

You probably predicted this post too Mark:

Would it have killed them to walk by a mirror so we could see the rig? Followed by: What kind of camera is that.

It is a neat effect. Especially when used with a microphone. I would love to have seen Roger Daltrey use one of these back in the day.

I will add that to the ways I plan to put my old Canon 710 in jeopardy. So far I have put in on a tripod outside and told it to take a picture every 20 min for a five weeks straight. Next, I plan to put it in a small boat and float it down the Rideau River on a tether, snapping all the way. A variant of this is to lower the camera and the "boat" off of bridges.

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#5 posted by Jack

, November 18, 2008 4:17 PM

The effect is pretty cool. It reminds me of the effects of actors with strapped on stedicams like Harvey Keitel drunk in Mean Streets, Jennifer Connolly leaving a "bad date" in Requiem for a Dream and a used in tons of shots in Spike Lee's films.

Was that done with a Flip cam? Seems like the perfect size.

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#6 posted by Mark Frauenfelder

, November 18, 2008 4:38 PM

"Would it have killed them to walk by a mirror so we could see the rig? Followed by: What kind of camera is that."

I agree! I want to see the rig!

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#7 posted by SamSam , November 18, 2008 4:51 PM

I think it's pretty clearly a much larger camera -- the bottle is attached to the camera, not the other way around. No one really holds the bottle (or the microphone in the later video), and the bottle occasionally moves by itself as it is passed between people. Also, they have to hold their hands all funny against what looks like a glass pane. Someone is just holding a normal sized video camera with a bottle attached to the front of it.

So, interesting, but not that interesting, I think.

The second video really looks like an ad for Coke Zero. If this wasn't paid for by coke, perhaps they're hoping to sell it to them?

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#8 posted by Bennessy , November 18, 2008 5:51 PM

The whole bottle?

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#9 posted by treq , November 18, 2008 9:50 PM

Mounted-smounted...

A camera *inside* a coke bottle:

http://viewer.vrmag.org/vrmag_hotlist_issue_28/VR000013312.html

(VR panorama, not video)

anyway.