#57 – Cam
Posted on March 6, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I stand at my desk. I have a laptop off to my side at about waist high and a second monitor in front of me. Whenever I do some sort of video chat I use the camera built in to the laptop. Consequently the people I’m chatting with see the side of my head and the ceiling. For some reason this makes people uneasy.
Tags: internet, mess, video chat
That’s why Pee Wee Heman had those backdrops for his Picture-Phone.
In the years to come that oddly selective field of tidiness will come to be known as The Skype Zone.
I wouldn’t do this with friends or family but have been known to create a similar “oddly selective field of tidiness” for video interviews. (Specifically, I attached a curtain rod to the ceiling behind me so I can hang a curtain.)
2020 in a nutshell.