Apropos of nothing, I spent some time today rigging up a ceiling-curtain-track-sliding-sock-camera-sling. We have those ceiling-mounted curtain tracks all around our bedroom, and I thought since we’re not using them for curtains I might fix us up an AV gateway in the sky. You can take the girl out of sound tech, but you can’t take the sound tech out of the girl.
So far I’m pretty pleased with SockCam:
To be honest, that possibility (the one you’re all thinking of) didn’t occurred to me until long after I took the first set of photos. But no, we’re not planning on getting into the home porn industry anytime soon. I just did this for a bit of (clean) fun.
October 30th, 2007 at 17:19 pm
hey thats really a cute idea. how did you manage to fix the camera to that track, and is it moving on the track?
October 31st, 2007 at 00:03 am
Well, if you’re not going to go into the amateur pr0n business, do you think you could at least wear, y’know, more shirts with loose necklines?
Adam
October 31st, 2007 at 10:40 am
Can you show us what the sling looks like? And how did you fix it to the track?
November 3rd, 2007 at 16:54 pm
@super hero: I just took one of the plastic curtain thingies off one of our old curtains and pinned it to the sock. It slides all around the room.
November 3rd, 2007 at 16:57 pm
@Adam: glad to see nothing has changed inside your brain, heh.
November 3rd, 2007 at 16:59 pm
@Kapil: I can, sure - give me a few days and I’ll take some photos and blog an update. It’s just fixed to the track like any curtain would be, with one of those sliding plastic tab thingies.
November 10th, 2007 at 17:04 pm
[...] so quite a few of you wrote in asking for more details and photos of the camera sling I fashioned from a sock and fixed to a sliding curtain tab in a track in the ceiling. To be honest, it’s a lot simpler than it sounds, and since it enables one to take photos from [...]