dorian fraser moore

Lo-fi moblogging...

Karen Elson at Paris Fashion Week for SHOWstudio

Trying to recreate the experience of Paris Fashion week from someone who is a part of it, on the internet, can be a diffiuclt task. Expressing ourselves in writing isn't everyone's strong point - it's not really mine, which is why this isn't a blog ;-) .

And not everyone wants to be trying to find a computer or typing in messages via a mobile phone keypad.

So we reverted to older technology. I hooked up a voice modem to a Linux box running Vgetty. This allows for answerphone messages to be left, and once stored, changed into .wav files and then uploaded to the showstudio server.

As always it wasn't as easy as it sounds, taking a lot of playing around with several modems and lots of settings to try and get it to work : vgetty doesn't seem to be being actively maintained, and it's not easy to get hold of the Modems it's been tested working with. I used a Zoom 3049 modem which pretty much does it, but you have to force it to be recognised as a V253 Modem [in case anyone wonders].

Allowing for supermodel Karen Elson to leave her experiences of Paris Fashion Week for others to hear. I kind of like what's been said so far, it's quite intimate in it's way.