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Unsilent Night 2002 meets Santacon. I took my aging VHS camera to Phil Kline's great annual musical event, Unsilent Night. Phil Kline's piece, uses masses of the public marching with boomboxes playing specially made tapes of his ethereal ambient music.This year Santacon (a bunch of Burning Man types in santa costumes,shouting HO, HO, HO, and bar-hopping to oblivion) added a layer of anarchy to the mix. It was a great New York moment. I've just added skip ahead and skip back buttons for you impatient souls, who can't just sit back and enjoy. But be aware that using them destroys much of the careful layering of sound, that I took so much care in creating. This is in the nature of the way that Flash handles sounds. Though the resolution that my VHS-C camcorder gives me in low light situations leaves much to be desired, I find merit in being able to choose just the right instant to display. I'm sure I would not have gotten all the candid expressions captured here with a still camera. And I've always been pleased with the audio recording on this JVC Videomovie GR-AX300U, soon to be celebrating it's tenth birthday. But a better camera is on my wish list. John
Schaefer interviews Phil Kline on Sound Check Santacon NYC 2003 full GammaBlaBlog Photo Report Wrybread's
account of his experience in Santacon '98 Photos from other NYC Santas at santacon.com
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