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Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by pavel_lishin on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:30PM (#10113033)
I don't think most people would want to download 200 gig of video just to get a glimpse of this.
Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by threeio on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:43PM (#10113084)
why not? I've got a spare monitor to run as a realtime Trans-Siberian window view ;)
Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by chrisacree on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:06AM (#10115589)
I'm in the neighborhood and have been thinking about making the trip.

If anyone wants to fund a ticket and a camera (GoPro?) I'll make a video.

Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by pavel_lishin on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:11AM (#10115853)
Based on some incredibly cursory pre-coffee googling, it would be about $1200 for the ticket (assuming you want a decent private-ish berth), probably around $500 for a GoPro and various equipment (a way to mount it on the window, spare batteries, chargers, memory, etc.) and somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for the flight back (I wouldn't want to subject you to eight hours on an S7 flight.)

$2500 is a pretty reasonable goal to throw up on a crowdfunding website.

Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by chrisacree on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @11:36AM (#10117204)
Good idea! I've never run a crowdfunded project, but this seems like a good use-case.

I just created a Kickstarter, let's see what happens once it's approved.

Re:Transsiberian Railway Trip as a Single Slitscan by dalke on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @05:08AM (#10115273)
I'm a bit surprised there isn't already a video of the entire journey.

For example, there's a 5+ day long video of the entire Hurigruten route along the coast of Norway at http://nrk.no/hurtigruten/?lang=en .