My 3 Seconds of Fame

Yesterday morning I got up really early in anticipation of my possible Japanese morning television debut. I looked around online for a good way of recording my appearance, but I didn't come up with much. The best thing I could find is a program called KeyHole TV. It's a magical little program that streams several Japanese TV channels. It only has a select number of channels available, but it feature Fuji TV, the one I needed. The program only provides a very small view screen which ruled it out for my purposes. You can download it if you want to check it out (on PC, Mac OSX, or Linux).

So after that waste of time, I figured I would just take a video with my camera straight from the TV screen. Very bad quality, but I couldn't come up with anything better on such short notice.

If you have a short attention span, or just happened to blink through my whole scene, you can see me at about 4:34. After a couple hours of time spent with/waiting on the TV crew and getting up early to watch, I have literally 3 seconds of on-air face time. All of the interviewing we did was cut. Curses!! I still wouldn't mind having a better copy of this however. At least I could pull one nice frame out of it and print it out.