forget those third-party competition bloggers
March 2, 2008 – 4:51 pmis it just this blog, or is what we all want from the unfolding mountain regional barista competition (we snorking, angst-addled, competition fanboys) a forehead-mounted webcam from the barista-poet come blogger while he competes? you know, jon lewis performing live a la radiohead — “lookit me! i am the perpetual epicenter of your viewfinder!”
now that is a rock star spro competition we would watch through the night …
UPDATE: lewis, of course, now has a very good excuse for not having bothered with such quibbles. he was focused on winning! which sort of begs the question: could anyone else have faithfully blogged a regional competition, won the thing, and maintained his chokehold on the title of Barista Perceived Most Humble This Side of Lilliput?
also, did barista centerfold nick cho really just compare him to barack obama?!
Sign me up.
it strikes us as doable! except for the part about finding someone open to this sort of fitted headgear.
I can see it now… judges being poked in the eye, spilled sig bevs, knocking the hopper lose…. this could take barista competitions to ESPN in no time.
I was this close to mounting a cam and recording a video from on top of the machine – which would have been close to Thom Yorke’s piano-eye-view… alas, my better judgment and frustration with inhibiting technology kept me a little more focused on coffee.
focused on coffee? wait … what?
congrats, jon.
ben says it: what we need here is what those harvard thinkers call “disruptive innovation.”
do rules allow for such a camera? or would you have to hide it inside a strategically placed extra cup?