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IJN Harekaze May 5, 2023 5:30 am


Originally Posted by lsquare (Post 35225881)
How does one mount a GoPro to a window seat?

With a series of clips or suckers on the frame of the go-pro or the go-pro holder

StuckInYYZ May 5, 2023 5:31 am


Originally Posted by lsquare (Post 35225881)
How does one mount a GoPro to a window seat?

There are you can purchase that will attach themselves to a large enough smooth surface. Usually the window works best (just don't cover the hole in the window... that'd likely lessen the suction strength. Some people will attach them to the IFE screen, however I would advise against that as you can damage the IFE screen. Some vloggers have attached it to the table if it mounts to the side (I think some BA business class seats do that).

bhomburg May 5, 2023 1:17 pm


Originally Posted by fransknorge (Post 35220534)
Complaining will most likely achieve nothing. As you say he is a commercial platform. He has likely contracts with airlines for his videos so crew are under order to let him do it and management will know he is onboard. Same way that if you were flying with a marketing team paid by said airline to do an advertisement.

I have had countless people photographing my dog/me on airplanes.I always told them that they were not authorized to publish them anywhere, and if I saw them on social media / anywhere on the internet I`d go after them. This was a very typical scene waiting at baggage claim somewhere in the US (I think LAS):

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...19231a34b3.jpg

One gentleman of apparently Malaysian descent on a MH flight (when they had just joined OW and introduced the A380s) from KUL to CDG was particularly annoying as he wasn't just taking a few pictures but filming all the time. Like, standing in the aisle across from our seats and pointing his camera at us for minutes at a time while speaking into a microphone in a language I couldn't understand.
As he spoke no/very limited English I summoned the crew and asked the FA to translate that I didn't appreciate being filmed and what this was for. He replied that he was a blogger doing some promotional piece and this was with the airline's blessing. I repeated that I had no interest at all in appearing in his video and would not consent to this. He continued to go on about how he had permission to film from MH's media relations dept and showed the FA some documents on his phone substantiating that claim.
The FA then retreated and fetched someone in uniform (either relief pilot or check pilot or something of that caliber - this was like the second day of A380 operations at MH and they had some technical issues with the aircraft ) . After a brief discussion with the older gentleman in uniform, the videographer turned his camera off and went out of my sightlines.
I saw him in the airport later where we all waited for our bags, and someone with him approached me and said he wanted to apologize, but he never saw a large dog on airplanes before and how come I was traveling with a dog. With the help of someone to translate, I told him about the concept of service animals and that they do exist for other purposes than guide dogs for the Blind.

moondog May 5, 2023 6:49 pm

What bloggers/vloggers do you guys like? I'm kind of into Josh because he visits insane places, but I dislike his style (e.g. he should use voiceovers and refrain from the insults).

StuckInYYZ May 5, 2023 7:46 pm


Originally Posted by moondog (Post 35227596)
What bloggers/vloggers do you guys like? I'm kind of into Josh because he visits insane places, but I dislike his style (e.g. he should use voiceovers and refrain from the insults).

Right now? Jeb Brooks and Dennis Bunnik for me. Paul Walker (a part-time FTer) isn't too bad but a bit wordy. Paul Smith. Then a few japanese vloggers who don't talk (further upthread are some recommendations).

lsquare May 5, 2023 7:48 pm


Originally Posted by moondog (Post 35227596)
What bloggers/vloggers do you guys like? I'm kind of into Josh because he visits insane places, but I dislike his style (e.g. he should use voiceovers and refrain from the insults).


Originally Posted by StuckInYYZ (Post 35227652)
Right now? Jeb Brooks and Dennis Bunnik for me. Paul Walker (a part-time FTer) isn't too bad but a bit wordy. Paul Smith. Then a few japanese vloggers who don't talk (further upthread are some recommendations).

I've never heard of guys. What do they blog about?

StuckInYYZ May 5, 2023 7:54 pm


Originally Posted by lsquare (Post 35227657)
I've never heard of guys. What do they blog about?

They're travel vloggers (or more realistically they're trip reporters). If you search youtube, they'll come up. Depends on what you like and are interested in. The original one that started this thread is known for being annoying (Noel something or other... originally out of the UK but apparently now out of the US).

richard_dong May 10, 2023 12:02 am

If I was ever seated next to these types of vloggers, I would definitely just start talking to myself or making enough consistent noise where they couldn't upload any footage.

Gerbs Jun 2, 2023 4:42 pm


Originally Posted by LtKernelPanic (Post 35204627)
4. Yup. I'd start playing music just like I mentioned previously. Preferably someone from a big label that'll get them demonetized or hopefully a copyright strike. If I knew who they were I'd report the video once published.

I suggest the Beatles, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Eagles and Jimi Hendrix (depending on your taste) as they have been reported to be automatic blocks.

gkbiiii Jun 2, 2023 4:53 pm

Personally, I like the Noel Phillips "lou review" and Bald & Bankrupt. I also like to two guys from Eastern Europe, who do their version of "trash videos," with the worst & best rated in Romania etc.

GW McLintock Jun 2, 2023 5:12 pm


Originally Posted by gkbiiii (Post 35299320)
Personally, I like the Noel Phillips "lou review" and Bald & Bankrupt. I also like to two guys from Eastern Europe, who do their version of "trash videos," with the worst & best rated in Romania etc.

I may have mentioned this upthread, but I know a few people who have had the "pleasure" of serving him onboard. None of them had anything nice to say. I can't imagine he is worse than Sam Chui (who has been known to threaten a bad review if FAs choose not to be on camera, and also did work for the North Koreans).

-J.

moondog Jun 2, 2023 6:00 pm

I do enjoy the concept of travel vlogs, but surely its possible to crank out ones that aren't annoying to viewers or others involved on the scene. Key points for me:
-use post trip voiceovers for the audio; even if you think you speak quietly
-avoid the fancy equipment setups; I don't need to see your airplane meal in in high def with studio lighting in order to get the picture
-spare us of provocative click bait titles or commentary like "worst airline ever"
--I don't care if there are other people in the videos (sometimes unavoidable at popular tourist attractions), but when you're on the airplane itself, this isn't so necessary (food, seat, views from the window)
-I really value time/money saving tips on things like immigration, checkin, ground transportation, convenient hotels, and airport restaurants (even if there are lounge options that that vlogger qualities for)

StuckInYYZ Jun 2, 2023 7:37 pm


Originally Posted by moondog (Post 35299451)
I do enjoy the concept of travel vlogs, but surely its possible to crank out ones that aren't annoying to viewers or others invoiced on the scene. Key points for me:
-use post trip voiceovers for the audio; even if you think you speak quietly
-avoid the fancy equipment setups; I don't need to see your airplane meal in in high def with studio lighting in order to get the picture
-spare us of provocative click bait titles or commentary like "worst airline ever"
--I don't care if there are other people in the videos (sometimes unavoidable at popular tourist attractions), but when you're on the airplane itself, this isn't so necessary (food, seat, views from the window)
-I really value time/money saving tips on things like immigration, checkin, ground transportation, convenient hotels, and airport restaurants (even if there are lounge oftens that that vlogger qualities for)

You'll probably like Paul Lucas (He also has an account on FT, I just don't remember it at the moment, but he haunts the BA sub). Meets most of your points. I also prefer quite a few japanese ones that are pretty much silent.

stef315 Jun 2, 2023 7:56 pm

I haven't watched any of the travel vloggers but I do see poker vloggers almost nightly and almost against my will. :) My boyfriend, who is in his 50s, watches them. Some of these vloggers are in their early 20s and somehow my boyfriend seems fascinated with them. We've both played poker in casinos, as well as out, for 20 or more years. So here he is listening to the advice of these kids who are not even playing the same games as us but yet, he has difficulty listening to any advice from me. It's just such a strange concept that these vloggers assume they have something special and unique to say. And then there are the people who are fascinated by them because they are "on TV". The bottom line is that they wouldn't be doing it if there weren't people watching it. And the more people who watch the videos, the more money they make. Sometimes I think more power to them that they can make a lot of money doing this and they must be smart. But usually, I just want people to stop encouraging them! :D

ChampagneSocialist Jun 3, 2023 12:49 am


Originally Posted by DELee (Post 35201695)
I guess if you're really, really hungry...

I've never seen that particular video, but I bet you that as a culinary experience, he would have rated the hot towel "quite nice".

FWIW I couldn't have guessed the ginger-haired man to be Noel Phillips - never noticed he had any hair..


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