 I've been intending to show you all this for some time since I first came up with it, I think about a year ago. This is my remote videotaping rig. As you can see, it's just some bits of PVC pipe, one and a half inch pipe, with some joints that I put together. I had been making all these remote videos at these conventions with my camera here hand held and I was having a great deal of trouble with my fingers accidentally turning the video on and off without meaning to and problems with holding the camera still for so many minutes at a time while I'm interviewing people. So I was about to go to Best Buy and buy a monopod for a bunch of money and then I thought, you know what, I have a garage full of PVC pipe. I had built a vertical shooting rig a couple years ago for my book review videos. If you look at some of my older videos, you'll see that the camera is shooting directly down onto a table covered with comic books and it's really close to the books. I had bought PVC pipe to build that rig and it worked well enough but I stopped using it because the camera was too close to the books and the lights were too close to the books and I had a real problem with reflections coming off the books. So I switched to doing things with these lights up on the ceiling. I'll show you all that someday. But for right now, let me zoom in and show you some close ups of this. You'll see here I have an actual tripod mount stuck onto the top of this pipe. What I've got here is a length of one and a half inch pipe connected to an adapter to a half inch pipe and the half inch pipe fit perfectly into the top of this tripod mount which was broken. The tripod was broken so this isn't something that I had to spend money on. The camera is a JVC Iverio model from like 2010, 2011. I'll talk more about my cameras some other day as well. I just put these lengths of pipe together and I've got a rounded end that you can get at the hardware store for these things. This is my backup microphone, not my regular microphone, but I put it there so I can do interviews. When I first built the thing, this was the pipe that I was using for the microphone and I realized it wasn't close enough so I doubled its length. The only modification I had to make and I had this eye hook too was I got a drill, drilled a hole through this connector here so I could attach this ball mount to the microphone extension. This was something that I already had again so I didn't need to buy anything. This ball mount works like this, the swivel. This works really well. It does exactly what I needed it to do. I wouldn't call it a steady cam rig but it has some steady cam functions. It's easier to carry obviously the camera and the microphone together like this. When I need to stop and stand still, I can set it on the floor. Here's another advantage. I've been in situations where I wanted to interview someone who was sitting at a table and in that situation I just pull off this lowest leg and the camera is a foot closer to the ground or I could pull off this longer length, there you go. But more than anything else, this gets attention. Wherever I go, whenever I take this out, people stop me and ask me about this and they say wow what a great idea and I'm always like yeah I thought it was a good idea too when I had it but this gets more attention than anything else I do which I guess is kind of depressing when I put it that way. Even when I went to the carnival, made that video at the carnival last week, the first thing that happened when I walked through the entrance was a guy stopped me and I was like hey! So if you're wondering what to do about shooting remotely, go do this. Buy used cameras off of eBay, buy used microphones off of eBay, buy some dollar lengths of pipe at the hardware store and there you are. Please remember to press that like button, it helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction, book, TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.