Steve Looker Walks Around Atlanta's Piedmont Park
There is a new live stream video on Steve Lookner’s Lookner channel on YouTube, entitled “LIVE Atlanta Piedmont Park Walkaround - 1st Outdoor Stream!":
In this video we see him going for a walk, using his phone to record his travels. He starts near the intersection of 14th Street and West Peachtree Street NW in Midtown Atlanta, and proceeds to head toward Piedmont Park.
While walking, he talks about how he’s trying out the technology he has available to him for this style of outdoor live streaming. He discusses the microphone he’s using with his phone, and he tries out switching between the front and back cameras on his phone. Steve also talks about the tall buildings he passes or can see, and how the area has been developing since he moved in near by.
Once arriving at the park’s entrance, he shows off the gate. After proceeding through the gate, he stops briefly at a peace monument from 1911, before looking at some athletic fields that include baseball diamonds and soccer fields.
He decides to show the viewing audience some birds, and starts to walk towards Lake Clara Meer, a large pond or a small lake. As he gets closer to the edge of the water, he sees some Canada geese and some ducks.
After leaving the lake and the ducks, Steve walks to a large open area, where there are surprisingly few people. He talks about how events like music festivals are held in the park, and he also points out some large buildings that can be seen in the distance. He continues to walk, again showing off part of the pond/lake, and then another large open grassy field area.
Coming upon a sign with a map of the park, he shows the viewers where he has walked through the park so far. For viewers not familiar with Atlanta and not familiar with Piedmont Park, this part of the video probably helps them understand better where he has walked so far, and where he’ll be walking soon after.
While continuing to walk, he talks briefly about visiting various other attractions and places in Georgia or that would otherwise be relatively close to him. The chatters in the live chat give some suggestions. At one point a dog, apparently named Otis, runs up toward Steve.
Steve proceeds toward an area of the park with some dog parks. While on the way there, he stops briefly to look at the Piedmont Park Demonstration Orchard and its fruit trees. Not long after he arrives at the dog parks, where there is one fenced in area meant for larger dogs and another separate fenced in area meant for smaller dogs. He notes that there are few dogs in the small dog park area, and there are even some small dogs in the area meant for larger dogs!
After the visit to the dog park, he starts making his way back. He walks up some stairs, and shows off the pond/lake and some tall buildings that can be seen in the distance. He crosses a small bridge across the pond/lake, and shows off a swimming pool area. He continues to walk back through the park, stopping briefly at one point to show off a view of the Midtown Atlanta skyline.
Steve talks about how he’d be interested in visiting various cities, towns, and other places to make content, assuming the finances worked out. He proceeds back through the athletic fields area he had passed through earlier in the live stream, and back through the entrance gate he originally came in at. He walks down some of the nearby streets, again showing the viewers some of the various buildings that are in the area.
I liked this video. I have never been to Atlanta, and I didn’t even know that Piedmont Park existed until seeing this video, so it was a learning experience for me. Since he was just using a phone, and didn’t seem to be using anything to help stabilize the footage, it was shaky. This was annoying at first, but I think I got accustomed to it as he continued to film. For a first attempt at a live streaming video recorded on a phone and with lots of movement, I think it went relatively well.
- Karl