Serious Roadblocks.

Well, today kind of sucked.

I lost a battery that was just sitting in a box somehow.

My webcam does not work with my computer. (I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do about that.)

Uploading videos is extremely time-consuming. I have no idea how much worse it'll be in China.

And basically my camcorder doesn't work with a mac either, so that really really sucks, though I can use my computer as an interface between the web and my camcorder. still, would be nice to be able to edit videos from it. There's got to be someway.

Also, having toyed around with this for one day, I've realized that A)- there's really no reason for me to tape myself sleeping, since this isn't any longer primarily about surveillance and B)- As long as I am using the camera and this project to dig out what I want it to, i.e. as long as the camera is making me aware of itself and of my awareness of it, and as long as it continues to focus my attention on the oddity of wanting to do this, it's okay. As long as I am as faithful as possible to what I'm trying to do, it's not a big deal if I don't have a full year's worth of video at the end.

Also, I'm trying to find a balance between acting as if the camera isn't there and playing to it. Originally, I thought I'd be treating it like an audience, but I realized that's kind of the opposite of what I want to do. I don't need to speak or interact with it, and I don't think it's necessary for me to explain myself to it, though, since much of this idea came from reality TV, when I thought about what I'd be doing before I started I thought along those lines.

And yeah, it's taking a pretty seriously long time to upload things, which means that even if I upload all night and video all day... I won't make it. Right? I'll keep playing with it.

Oh, and YouTube is a bitch? I have to go with Google video.

One day over, sort of.