It happens. Internet streaming will never reach perfection. The main webserver’s in Canada, the piano music comes from a server in India, and the video is coming straight out of my living room. Somehow it all comes together and works… most of the time.
Ah but I thank you. It’s a pleasure…a simple one…to watch traffic roll by, pedestrians on the street and even so far as the fellow who stood on the porch across the street smoking before he went inside. And India? Radio Garden perhaps? That place is a gem!
This might switch to LinkNYC radio this week. Might not. Just sayin’. Autocomplete is playing headlamps i mean headlamps i mean HEADGAMES with me at 2:17am.
Most of my audio streams are fucked since cheapshoutcast.com abruptly went out of business. At present this video will go back to being silent but you can get to the piano audio here: http://94.23.30.114:8067/stream. Twitch’s bots went off and started lying that I’m using copyrighted content when I’m not. You can’t argue with an ignorant bot so I cut the audio from Twitch.
You know…I live in the country. I have my fair share of traffic coming by because I’m on a main state two lane road that every hillbilly with a motorcycle opens up on and rips by at 60mph. Quietest time is in the winter when only the plows and the occasional rube with a snowmobile comes by.
My wife and I would take one of those bus trips to NYC..that would occasionally take us across the Hudson to the big Japanese market in Fort Lee. We’d be one the bus on the way home to Connecticut. Look out the window with our stomachs full of warm sake and sushi…looking at the windows in the apartment buildings whizzing by. Seeing bookshelves, lamps and glimpses of the occasional person looking anywhere but not at as as we passed by their lives and us keeping with ours,
We used to think how much of a lovely and romantic adventure it would be to live in Manhattan. Of course after the sake or Sapporo wore off we realized the romance was just a fantasy.
So…I come here more often than not to enjoy my glass of wine and stare out your window in Queens, imagining what it is to live in the big city. Thanks for the city experience, without actually having to be ther.
Just saw this now. It’s not that I’m lazy, which I am, but my apartment is laid out such that getting this window view is complicated. I consulted this camera to check on the snow and street conditions right outside my apartment before debarking at 5am. Saw a snow plow pass by and knew from this that I’d get to the subway alright.
I have to admit that no matter how mundane the view a piano makes everything much more enjoyable.
Shoot….the music stopped.
It happens. Internet streaming will never reach perfection. The main webserver’s in Canada, the piano music comes from a server in India, and the video is coming straight out of my living room. Somehow it all comes together and works… most of the time.
Ah but I thank you. It’s a pleasure…a simple one…to watch traffic roll by, pedestrians on the street and even so far as the fellow who stood on the porch across the street smoking before he went inside. And India? Radio Garden perhaps? That place is a gem!
Mark, your stream went down. No music and no being able to watch the guy who lives in the red brick building across the street come out and smoke.
Thank you!
This might switch to LinkNYC radio this week. Might not. Just sayin’. Autocomplete is playing headlamps i mean headlamps i mean HEADGAMES with me at 2:17am.
Most of my audio streams are fucked since cheapshoutcast.com abruptly went out of business. At present this video will go back to being silent but you can get to the piano audio here: http://94.23.30.114:8067/stream. Twitch’s bots went off and started lying that I’m using copyrighted content when I’m not. You can’t argue with an ignorant bot so I cut the audio from Twitch.
A million thanks for the link! I don’t know if this is any use to you but you sure can have fun bouncing all around the globe! https://radio.garden/visit/chainpur/BTxIqpQA#google_vignette
Ahhh..back in business.
The phone thing is an interesting touch. Feels almost dirty listening in but hey…I did that stuff for a living at one time.
You know…I live in the country. I have my fair share of traffic coming by because I’m on a main state two lane road that every hillbilly with a motorcycle opens up on and rips by at 60mph. Quietest time is in the winter when only the plows and the occasional rube with a snowmobile comes by.
My wife and I would take one of those bus trips to NYC..that would occasionally take us across the Hudson to the big Japanese market in Fort Lee. We’d be one the bus on the way home to Connecticut. Look out the window with our stomachs full of warm sake and sushi…looking at the windows in the apartment buildings whizzing by. Seeing bookshelves, lamps and glimpses of the occasional person looking anywhere but not at as as we passed by their lives and us keeping with ours,
We used to think how much of a lovely and romantic adventure it would be to live in Manhattan. Of course after the sake or Sapporo wore off we realized the romance was just a fantasy.
So…I come here more often than not to enjoy my glass of wine and stare out your window in Queens, imagining what it is to live in the big city. Thanks for the city experience, without actually having to be ther.
Mark. Thanks so much for putting the camera back up. I’m to lazy to get off my ass to see if it’s snowing.
Just saw this now. It’s not that I’m lazy, which I am, but my apartment is laid out such that getting this window view is complicated. I consulted this camera to check on the snow and street conditions right outside my apartment before debarking at 5am. Saw a snow plow pass by and knew from this that I’d get to the subway alright.
Dinner, a Sambuca with Espresso and looking out the window. Love it.