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Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street’s Live Stream (fastcompany)

The best ground view of Occupy Wall Street comes from a former skateboard
videographer and a one-time Realtor, aka Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of The Other
99. With little more than mobile phones they’ve offered a perspective that the
mainstream media can’t match. Here’s how.

[The Other 99. Foreground: reporter, videographer Tim Pool; background: Henry
Ferry]

I first spotted Tim Pool on Nov. 4, in New York, amid the unfolding events at
Zuccotti Park. He was wearing a Voltaic backpack with a solar-charger and
high-capacity battery for powering a cell phone. (He has since upgraded to the
$150 Energizer XPAL, 1.8-amp battery that sustains a day of continuous video
streaming.) The 25-year-old Pool revealed deep insider knowledge of the scene
at the place where Occupy Wall Street activists were gathered. He knew about
the new General Union, formed by the maligned hardcore campers fom the western
“ghetto” end of the park as an alternative to the well-known General Assembly.
About a week later, a prominent member of the General Assembly’s PR team still
barely knew about it.

About two weeks later, Pool had become world (wide web) famous. He captured
much of the early morning raid …

fastcompany

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