5:09:49 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.

The Compleat Inramble (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFtp6bV4yRc

Frank Edward Nora had been doing his podcast, The Overnightscape, since 2003. In early 2008, he experimented with a video show called Inramble (subtitled “go on a quick video trip”) which seemed perfect for the rapidly growing online video world. Filming in Midtown Manhattan and elsewhere, the first 26 episodes suffered from poor quality, as he was filming on his Palm Treo 680. He soon got a Flip Video Ultra, which was used for the rest of the series. Lack of interest led Frank to slow down on the project. On 8/8/08, he tried to revive the series, only to find the Flip Video Ultra had stopped working. Taking this as a sign, Frank gave up on Inramble and soon started the next chapter of his audio journey, “The Rampler”. 142 episodes of Inramble were released, plus 11 that were not released at the time. The Compleat Inramble includes all these videos.

Released 1/22/23

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

Internet archive link: https://archive.org/details/Tape_Land_Video_165-The_Compleat_Inramble-2008

Join host Frank Edward Nora on a quick video trip to …

[00:00:00] 001 – 3rd Ave. NYC (1/14/08) …Third Avenue in NYC
[00:00:50] 002 – Times Square (1/14/08) …Times Square in NYC
[00:01:34] 003 – 5th Ave. NYC (1/15/08) … Fifth Avenue in NYC
[00:03:48] 004 – 44th St. NYC (1/15/08) …44th Street in NYC
[00:04:53] 005 – Times Square (1/15/08) …Times Square in NYC
[00:06:42] 006 – 42nd St. NYC (1/15/08) …down 42nd Street in NYC
[00:07:27] 007 – Port Authority (1/16/08) …the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC. Frank checks out a cool kinetic sculpture called the “42nd Street Ballroom”.
[00:08:32] 008 – 42nd and 8th NYC (1/16/08) … the corner of 8th Avenue and 42nd Street in NYC. Frank checks out a cool hotel, some movie theaters, and an observation platform.
[00:09:56] 009 – Subway Station (1/16/08) …the Times Square subway station in NYC. Frank checks out some bathrooms, a music store, and a cool tunnel.
[00:12:11] 010 – Grand Central (1/16/08) … Grand Central Terminal in NYC
[00:13:44] 011 – Plaza (1/16/08) …Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in NYC
[00:15:24] 012 – 2nd Ave. (1/16/08) …down 2nd Ave. in NYC. Frank talks about the progress of the Inramble project.
[00:16:13] 013 – Tunnel Exit St. (1/16/08) …Tunnel Exit Street in NYC
[00:17:37] 014 – Grocery Closed (1/16/08) …a closed Japanese Grocery in NYC
[00:18:38] 015 – Camera Sucks (1/16/08) …5th Ave. in NYC. He talks about how his camera sucks and that he is getting a new one.
[00:19:59] 016 – Corridor of Losers (1/17/08) …the “Corridor of Losers” in the NYC subway system
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