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Re: What being white looks like | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

abigailhamilton — Sun, 04 May 2014 12:37:10 -0000

You know what's weird for me? If you called the collection, "My Back Friends," substituting black counterparts for these subjects in the same settings, clothes, poses/attitudes, I wouldn't notice a difference in the images. Is this because the concept doesn't work for me, or I find the execution lacking? Hmmm. I like the exploration, though. Always of value to posit something and then see if it holds up. And I do understand that "whiteness" exists as a form of "other."

Re: What being white looks like | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

abigailhamilton — Sun, 04 May 2014 12:37:08 -0000

Haha, I see I just kind-of duplicated your comment. I am glad to share your thought-space!

Re: Echoing the dot com bubble…i-Booze

abigailhamilton — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:11:23 -0000

Have you used iBooze? What have you ordered? How was it?

Re: Sacred and profane

abigailhamilton — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:14:06 -0000

a fabulous week in the House of Usher without the vapors! We cheer the Duck when we pass it now. Who knew?!

Re: Top 5 IP Camera Problems : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:09:42 -0000

I am glad you are asking people to look more carefully at the Axis report. Because it's naturally going to be biased toward the case for IP cameras, given it's sponsored by Axis, people are already taking it for what it is.

But pointing out specifically the weaknesses is helpful to better understanding the current landscape. As you say, very few users are starting from scratch at this point, and their legacy investments must be taken into account.

This is increasingly true as the recession deepens and people are looking so critically at their capital improvements budgets.

Re: How the Recession Impacts Video Surveillance : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:05:53 -0000

Just to bring down the tone here I thought I'd mention another indicator that this recession is affecting the industry:

[Hip-hop producer Scott] Storch has also has been sued by an electric company for $11,215 - and a security system installer too! Scotty still owes $17,151 for his state-of-the-art camera network.

(As reported by Perez Hilton at http://perezhilton.com/2008...

Re: How the Recession Impacts Video Surveillance : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:45:31 -0000

Again, thanks for another killer post, John.

There's one corner of the world that might act a little differently than the others.

70 percent of casinos are still limping along with their obsolete VCRs (http://tiny.cc/yiGQh), so the opportunity there might be a little firmer than in other verticals — especially with non-US casino markets like Macau booming. This firmness might also act aid the slow decline of DVRs a little, since casinos all have analog infrastructure they will want to leverage — and since hybrid systems allow them to add IP cameras anywhere they wish. Latency is also an issue still making casinos reluctant to go all-IP.

Re: The Best Video Surveillance Solutions : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:16:03 -0000

It's encouraging that all the comments are focused on user experience and value. The more people pay attention to that the better the offerings will be. At my company, we are pretty fierce about it, and devote a lot of time to evaluating and incorporating user feedback to make the products easier to use. It doesn't hurt that we entered the market with a focus on casino surveillance, so we get a pretty representative slice of feedback from that vertical.

Re: Why Centralized NVR Recording Won't Happen : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:57:21 -0000

Please continue to serve the industry by tethering the marketing smoke and mirrors to reality! It's great to envision what's possible, but if the customer is given false expectations no-one wins in the longterm.

Re: Outrageous Claims Hurt the Industry : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:52:32 -0000

Hey John — as usual, you're right on the mark.

The claims that people are encouraged to believe about video analytics are often outrageous. As it stands now, you need to get a head-on shot in the database and matching it to incoming data is dependent on that data being head-on shot, too. Some environments are great for that (ATMs, toll booths for license plates, etc.), but many are not.

And on top of that, many analytics are proprietary and are only integrated with a certain manufacturer's video recording nd management system. So, unless you have no video system in place or serendipitously have the analytics' partner's video system, you're SOL or looking at a huge expense above and beyond the analytics package itself.

So, selling analytics based on its best-case, pie-in-the-sky potential jerks a lot of people's chains and frustrates them about what they thought they could get or what they cannot have.

Re: Is Public CCTV Effective? Key Findings and Practical Recommendations : IP Video Market Info

abigailhamilton — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:47:25 -0000

Great post. Very topical — so many municipalities including Seattle are having a lively debate and it really does need to be about the comprehensive program and its goals rather than simply about yes cameras or no cameras.