Paul Graham: It Was too Easy for Segway
July 30, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Ramblings of a Gadget Geek, Transportation
So why hasn’t the Segway taken off? Why hasn’t it delivered its promise of providing personal transportation for everyone? Paul Graham thinks he has the answer: it makes things look too easy:
The reason you look like a dork riding a Segway is that you look smug. You don’t seem to be working hard enough.
Someone riding a motorcycle isn’t working any harder. But because he’s sitting astride it, he seems to be making an effort. When you’re riding a Segway you’re just standing there. And someone who’s being whisked along while seeming to do no work—someone in a sedan chair, for …read more
Extreme Segway + Steadicam Skills
May 22, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cameras, Transportation
Totally amazing: watch this Steadicam operator go full speed on a Segway towards the stage, dismounting gracefully onto it, and making tight circles that would make a ballerina dizzy before alighting stage right:
And that was just a rehearsal. Now see how the shot turned out during the live Eurovision performance (right at 2:40):
Extreme cinematography execution and Segway-manship at its finest, no doubt. Fellow Steadicam pros/enthusiasts are going gaga over the performance, and its rumored that the operator is a certain Karsten Jacobsen.
Ah, but all amazing feats always involve the unheralded, the sidekick who helps the leader look good. In this …read more
