Dog's Life
April 6, 2009 7:46 AM   Subscribe

 
See also cat cam.
posted by burnmp3s at 7:53 AM on April 6, 2009 [1 favorite]


I lost interest after a couple of minutes. Does it go anywhere? Perhaps he humps a nice pillow or something?
posted by mannequito at 7:56 AM on April 6, 2009


is it a nazi dog emerging from a hell volcano?
posted by Artw at 8:07 AM on April 6, 2009


and you can too.
posted by 5imian at 8:07 AM on April 6, 2009


As advertised.
posted by Salvor Hardin at 8:12 AM on April 6, 2009


He gets taunted by girls throwing biccies and toast and a little tour of some scale models landscapes.
posted by doobiedoo at 8:22 AM on April 6, 2009


is it a nazi dog emerging from a hell volcano?

Sadly not...
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:30 AM on April 6, 2009


I lasted 3 minutes as well....
posted by HuronBob at 8:31 AM on April 6, 2009


Oh and I tried to watch the actual doggy-cam this morning but gave up after about a minute as it's the first time a video's has actually given me motion sickness.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 8:32 AM on April 6, 2009


Not exactly Hitchcock.
posted by swift at 8:34 AM on April 6, 2009 [1 favorite]


cf
posted by swift at 8:35 AM on April 6, 2009


I'm sure lots of people think of doing this. Only an artist would be dumb enough to post the content when it turns out as poorly as that did, though. If one's that bereft of ideas, get a day job.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:47 AM on April 6, 2009 [1 favorite]


I'm gonna guess we'll be seeing a lot of his balls.
posted by mazola at 8:49 AM on April 6, 2009 [2 favorites]


Ha ha ha it's so clever! The pet, it has a camera. That's never been done before, it's so original.

Also, the dog is a crappy editor. And it needs a steadicam collar.
posted by Nelson at 8:53 AM on April 6, 2009


Man, I didn't think it was art or anything fancy pants, that's why I linked to it and tagged it as "camera attached to dog" nothing more, nothing less. I didn't watch it all the way through or even in one go, but some bits of it are neat and some aren't, that is all.
posted by doobiedoo at 8:53 AM on April 6, 2009


Honestly, I thought the "stairs dilemma" segment of the film was hilarious and enlightening. It had never occurred to me how a flight of stairs must appear to a tiny animal.

That aside, I had, somehow, expected such an offering from an artist on a museum website would be more than unedited YouTube petcam footage.
posted by hippybear at 8:59 AM on April 6, 2009


And I noticed just now, it's not a museum website, but rather the art segment of the Guardian website.
posted by hippybear at 9:06 AM on April 6, 2009


Others in this series:

Rolling in Goose Shit
From the Bottom of the Dog Pile
Midnight Kitchen Raid
Down the Rabbit Hole
Cat Claw Close Shave
Before They Came Home
Tennis Ball Obsession (parts 1-5)
Locked Together in Passion
Biting Caesar Milan
posted by rongorongo at 9:22 AM on April 6, 2009 [3 favorites]


Lame. The Chapman brothers, I mean.
posted by R. Mutt at 9:24 AM on April 6, 2009


I couldn't watch much of this. The idea is fascinating to me, but in practice it was off-putting. I'd love a more efficient implementation of this. And I pray in my lifetime that I get to know what dogs are thinking.

If I put this on my dog, it would be an hour straight of him pawing at it to get it off. No movement at all.
posted by dios at 9:40 AM on April 6, 2009 [2 favorites]


For certain dogs, who know who they are, it would an hour of licking the place where the balls used to be, and adjacent regions. This is why art gets curated.
posted by theora55 at 9:49 AM on April 6, 2009


the cinematography is weak.
posted by sexyrobot at 10:41 AM on April 6, 2009


"I didn't watch it all the way through or even in one go..."

OK, don't we have a rule that the poster of a single link video has to at least have WATCHED the whole thing?? What? We don't?

Well, we should...
posted by HuronBob at 11:06 AM on April 6, 2009 [1 favorite]


I thought it was the perfect slack, stupid, internet-shtick of the moment horse-shit. And for very brief moments, when he's trying to shake it off, looking up the stairs, better than it set out to be.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:10 AM on April 6, 2009


Holy shaky camera. It's the Blair Bitch Project.
posted by emelenjr at 11:12 AM on April 6, 2009 [3 favorites]


I only lasted 45 seconds. Made me dizzy.

Cat cam would be worse though. Judging from my cats, it would just be a constant view of the same spot on the floor for hours, followed by frenzied viewing of a laser pointer, followed by their butts.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 11:27 AM on April 6, 2009


Man, I didn't think it was art or anything fancy pants, that's why I linked to it and tagged it as "camera attached to dog" nothing more, nothing less. I didn't watch it all the way through or even in one go, but some bits of it are neat and some aren't, that is all.

Good Christ. Please give yourself a mandatory time-out.

You're supposed to link to interesting things you find on the web, not shit so boring you can't yourself even make it through it. Imagine MetaFilter if every member followed your lead. It wouldn't last an hour.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 11:43 AM on April 6, 2009 [7 favorites]


You're supposed to link to interesting things you find on the web, not shit so boring you can't yourself even make it through it. Imagine MetaFilter if every member followed your lead. It wouldn't last an hour.

Man alive, some of it was interesting and some of it wasn't, I thought this was internet show and tell, not the lifetime award for pulitzer webbies......that said, ok, maybe it sounded more compelling than it looked and the ratio of interesting to shaky could have been better. No more cams on dogs....without an academy award nomination.
posted by doobiedoo at 12:41 PM on April 6, 2009


Yeah, the idea is quality, not novelty.
posted by ryanrs at 12:47 PM on April 6, 2009


MeTa
posted by burnmp3s at 1:14 PM on April 6, 2009


I thought this was internet show and tell, not the lifetime award for pulitzer webbies.

Yeah, you're totally doing it wrong.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 2:34 PM on April 6, 2009


Flagged for misleading title. Oh, wait.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:20 PM on April 6, 2009


Yet another reason the Chapman brothers are uninteresting.
posted by twsf at 4:29 PM on April 6, 2009


*remembers Sirius*
posted by Wolof at 6:04 PM on April 6, 2009


They would have spent the $14 to make a steadycam except the dog kept falling over...
posted by Nanukthedog at 6:24 PM on April 6, 2009


I love that the guy (presumably a Chapman) kept on fucking up the framing, so the dog would fix it, then the guy would fuck it up again. So once again I like a dog more than its people.
posted by The Monkey at 6:31 PM on April 6, 2009


Surprisingly unentertaining. I appreciate the idea. But this was fucking terrible. Everything was subpar, from the dog to the camera to the editing.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 11:01 PM on April 6, 2009


Ugh, Roverfield.
posted by bookwo3107 at 10:35 AM on April 7, 2009


this kind of thing goes over far better at Metachat than here, I'm afraid.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 11:12 AM on April 7, 2009


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