Recording summary · April 2016
Vlogging on Samsung s6 in south korea trip - Air Pollution is bad today!
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Overview
Daniel navigates severe urban air pollution while traveling by bus to Lake Park, wears a face mask, walks around the lake, and visits an on-site toilet museum.
Daniel eats at a Vietnamese pho restaurant, travels by subway train to Madu Station, and attends a karaoke session featuring an old-fashioned song book and technical issues.
Daniel evaluates the inconveniences of a newly purchased super zoom camera relative to a mobile phone and contrasts the respiratory health impacts of urban air pollution with living in the UK countryside.
Themes
The severity of air pollution, the origins of local smog from China, factories, and vehicular traffic, and the physical discomfort associated with wearing face masks.
Discomfort caused by aggressive bus driving and a preference for train transit despite longer commute durations.
An excursion through Lake Park and the Toilet Exhibition Culture Hall exhibiting historical toilet artifacts.
Dining at a Vietnamese pho restaurant in Korea, including observations of the dishes, sauces, and under-table utensil storage.
Karaoke venue experiences involving excessive volume, pornographic background video displays necessitating changes, and structural differences between Korean song books and Japanese touchscreen setups.
Evaluating phone video recording against a dedicated super zoom camera across lighting adaptation, file transfer risks, audio equipment, and portability.
Urban transportation habits and public transit dependency as factors influencing respiratory health and smog exposure.
Developments
Daniel purchases masks in response to heavy city air pollution.
Daniel rides a bus operated aggressively over road bumps to Lake Park.
Daniel explores historical sanitation displays at the Toilet Exhibition Culture Hall.
Daniel walks the perimeter of the lake while the pedestrian footpath is blocked off with tape.
Daniel consumes a beef and fried rice meal at a Vietnamese pho establishment.
Daniel boards a train at Madu Station.
Daniel relocates to another karaoke room after encountering overly loud speakers and pornographic screen visuals in the first room.
Daniel concludes a two-hour singing session and departs for home.
Daniel finishes editing the day's video recording.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether masks offer genuine protective benefit when gaps exist around the edges.
The reason the pedestrian footpath at the park was taped off.
The reason Fruit and Fibre cereal packaging uses stickers to cover text describing fortification with vitamins and iron.
Whether Daniel will use the super zoom camera again.
Whether an online assertion that inhaling Beijing air is equivalent to smoking one cigarette per hour is true.