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[Travel] 5 years ago - In Israel/Palestine, Hebron (jeena.net)

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Today 5 years ago I was in Hebron, Palestine. I spent there a couple of days at a AirBnb. The story is quite fascinating and I recorded audio while talking to many local people there.

Many different things happened during my stay which you can hear about in the podcast episode. From the bus driver who drove me there from Jerusalem not wanting to let me go out because he feared for my safety then two 10 years old trying mug me while other teenagers escorting me to the military checkpoint. My confusion about the maps of palestine and Israel and explanations of it. I also visited a family who's house has been bulldozered by the #IDF several times and they kept rebuilding it. Their son just married the weekend before and on the way to the wedding the IDF stopped him and harassed him to give them money so they'd let him go to his wedding. Anyway there is much more in there than I can mention here.

So check it out https://jeena.net/pods/21

I also recorded a half an hour video back then walking around in the old city, you can watch it while you listen to the podcast: https://tube.jeena.net/w/3FhHLhdfxHpEJGdGPTA3uA

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

whoa dang cool.

how did you record people while you traveled, did you have a microphone or lav mics?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, lav mikes are too complicated to set up quickly when you walk around. I had the Zoom H5 recorder with the microphones on top like in this picture:

But I also had the wind screen on because the wind was very often blowing a lot and also people speaking sometimes make weird sounds into the microphone and it kind of functions like a pop-filter too to some degree. So it actually looked like this:

That makes it also obvious that you're recording someone so they can deny to talk to you or decide that they do want to be recorded.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

I was looking at one of those a couple years ago, I've only heard good things.

thanks.

that's a really good point about being obvious when you're interviewing people too.