Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 19

Photography by Neal Skacel

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ESPN-style coverage with a video crew of one or two.

By Josh Cardenas

I had the chance to run visuals for a unique DJ act called The Hard Sell, a collaboration of turntablists DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. The art of spinning and cutting records is usually not visible to dance club audiences. Cut and Shadow wanted to let everyone see, up close and personal, all the action on their 8 simultaneously spinning turntables playing old 45s.

But they needed a way to do it unobtrusively. Given the often cramped ...