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Almost famous

5:44pm JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)

Tomorrow I'll be the guest on 88slide!!

Today my mug is previewed at the end of this creamy video.

Gateway data

CD/track             Wave II / Threshold 5: Energy Bar Tool
body position        on back with knees bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  22 C
clothing             underwear, sleeping bag
working nostril(s)   left
emotional state      fine
physical             fine
head                 fine
stomach              alseep
pain/soreness        none
phone/door	     off/closed
time allowed	     hour
ambient light	     overcast filtered
ambient noise	     highway 246 through double pane window
date/time            10:49am JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)
location	     Sakurashinmachi apartment

11:25am JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)

That turned out to be Energy Bar Tool, and not track 6, Living Body Map.

I basically fell asleep.

Lump

12:04pm JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)

I feel lumpy and almost depressed this morning. I don't really want to do shit. Including study. Argh.

I kinda wanna work on my maps thing, but even that.. blah.

Naptime.

12:26pm JST

I just cut-n-pasted a good piece on the aftermath of Airplane Day

PM dream

8:15pm JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)

There was a problem on PB, though everyone was okay (even though it included flooding). The huge and controversial fish tank ruptured, spilling its contents and flooding the passenger rooms with three feet of water. During the discussion, I was only getting snippets of the story until I was like, "actually, I don't know exactly what happened. What happened?" and someone told me the deets.

i name

9:35pm JST Wednesday 13 September 2006 (day 13321)

Trying to register the i-name =thunderrabbit, though I don't really know what it's all about. Just thinking of it like a domain name that proves my identity. Only $5... Waste of money on a passing fad??

new Airplane Day vid

3:32am JST Thursday 14 September 2006 (day 13322)

Airplane Day: What We Saw

to: wtcbpc@gmail.com
recently released video
		
HI Bob and Bri

Thank you for choosing to release the video.  I can imagine it was a
difficult decision.

Online, several people have been interested in apparent editing done
on the video.  Do you have the unedited tape?   Would you be willing
to release that?

I'm particularly curious about the second plane hitting the building..

Thanks!

 - Rob

answers to frequently asked questions

"September 11, 2001: What We Saw"
Frequently Asked Questions

We'd like to thank the large number of people who've written us to offer encouragement and
support. Your kind words have let us know that we made the right choice in releasing this
video. Because we can't respond individually we've compiled a FAQ to answer common questions:

Q. Why did you choose to release the video now?
A. We have wanted to release the video for some time, but had not found the appropriate venue. We
offered it to a local public television station, but they did not respond.

Q. Why did you release the video on Revver?
A. We chose to release the video on Revver because of its author-friendly licensing terms and
support for the Creative Commons. Revver is currently the only authorized commercial distribution
channel for this video. Copies on Google Video, YouTube and other video sharing services are
unauthorized and we will ask for their removal. While we like and use those services for some
content, we do not agree with their licensing terms for this video.

Q. Are you going to make money from this video through Revver?
A. No. We will donate any proceeds from Revver's ad-sharing arrangement for this video to a children's charity.

Q. Isn't this video missing important scenes?
A. We did not capture the impact of either plane or the start of either building's collapse. As many
have surmised, the impacts of the airplanes and collapses of both buildings did catch us by
surprise.

Q. Why did you edit this video?
A. The version we released on 9-11-2006 was intentionally and obviously (using dissolves) edited for
length and size only. About 10 minutes of mostly redundant video was removed. None of the media
services could host the unedited file at sufficiently high resolution.

Q. Will you release the unedited version?
A. Because of interest in this video, we intend to make the unedited version available via
bittorrent (Revver has offered to seed the torrent). This will take several days due to the size of
the file. Please do not request a copy of the original file.

Q. Does Bri believe she saw a military plane?
A. Bri's comment regarding the "military" plane was due to her seeing a silhouette of the plane and
therefore assuming black coloration. Her initial thought was that the plane was approaching the
south tower to help fight the fire. There is nothing in our recollection to suggest that events of
the day occurred in any way other than seen on the video.

Q. Are those UFOs in frame xxx?
A. Compression of the video for display on the web has distorted some objects, which include
helicopters, birds, a fighter jet passing overhead (after the second plane hit the south tower), and
glare from a window.

Q. What is the music in the background?
A. The lullabies playing in the background at the start of the video are from a CD we would play to
calm our daughter. The CD plays lullabies slowly and includes a background heartbeat. This music was
not added to the video at a later date. We have been unable to listen to that CD since.

Q. Was your daughter in day care at the WTC? Is she OK?  
A. Our daughter was scheduled to start day care in the North Tower the following week. It is our
understanding that all children in that day care were evacuated successfully. We were displaced from
our apartment for about a month and continued to live in the area for a year. She did develop
asthmatic symptoms which may have been due to the lingering dust. These symptoms cleared up when we
moved to a different part of Manhattan.

Q. Who shot the video?
A. Video was shot by Bri and Bob on a Sony DCR-TRV11 Camcorder. A few days after the tape was shot,
we transferred the video to DVD using Apple iMovie and iDVD. The tape and DVD have never left our
possession. The released video was transcoded from the DVD. The unedited version was re-transferred
from the original tape.

Q. Have you been contacted by the authorities regarding this video?
A. No.