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I've been doing bits and bobs of remote live stream mixing for work while 'normal' video production is on hold / in lower demand. Basically people dial into us and we do vision mixing/add graphics etc and broadcast out an event / discussion / show etc.
Currently doing a tech event with some quite high profile bay area people.
One of them is quite an historically important person in devops stuff. Apparently.
He appeared very late and then with a generated background of a cartoon tree behind him. We asked if he could just show his actual environment so he switched it off. He revealed the kind of Bacchanalian horror show you hope you'll never witness. Utter detritus everywhere. Literally shit-stained kecks (he's in his 70s) strewn over bookshelves lined with boardgames, empty bottles, a (I think) wine stain adorning a white wall. Really next level mess. He's now walking around looking for books to stack underneath his laptop (we gave all contribs a really thorough but not daunting document showing best practice for appearing on stream like this). I'm fairly sure he's not wearing trousers but I can't be sure.
It's been a few minutes since I typed and the latest is he had to go live but he's shutting his eyes so tight. Like so tight. And he won't open them while he speaks. People on the stream are asking if he's OK and he says he just prefers to imagine people in the room with him. He's scrunching them shut so hard he's going to give me a haemorrhage.