Wednesday, September 6, 2017

An Introduction to the Video Issue

I ran into Casey Neistat in the men's room

at the Oscars, two Oscars ago. I recognized him from his vlog. He looked the same as he does on YouTube, except he was wearing a tuxedo and sunglasses instead of a T-shirt and sunglasses. He had a Samsung Gear 360, which at the time was a spanking-new, golf-ball-shaped camera that tech-type people were going crazy about because it promised to allow the masses to record virtual-reality video. Neistat's was perched on a selfie stick, and he carried it around like it was a rare bird.