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DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« on: December 30, 2020, 03:51:35 pm »
DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom



 December 29, 2020 By Jordan Davidson

Washington, D.C., snobs are purchasing custom-stocked bookshelves to appear smart and sophisticated on television, in Zoom meetings, and in other scenarios.

According to Politico, multiple services, such as “Books by the Foot” by a Maryland bookseller, use their warehouses of books to create literary scenery in various locations. Customers range from interior decorators and hotels to collectors, politicians, celebrities, and talking heads.

Demand for these confidence- and ego-boosting bookshelves grew this year, Politico reports, as more people began conducting meetings and TV hits through teleconferencing due to COVID-19 and government restrictions.

While book orders for personal reading pleasure were also up during the pandemic, demand clearly increased for a certain type of bookshelf order.

“We can sort of, you know, guess, or read between the lines, and we’ve had an uptick in smaller quantities,” “Books by the Foot” owner Chuck Roberts said. “If your typical bookcase is 3 feet wide, and you just want to have the background from your shoulders up, then you might order 9 feet of history or 9 feet of literature. That way, you put them on your home set … [and] nobody can zoom in on these books and say, Oh my God, he’s reading … you know, something offensive, or tacky. Nothing embarrassing.”

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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2020, 05:20:28 pm »
Books deaden the echos in Zoom meetings, so it doesn't sound like the guest is attending the meeting from the baffroom.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2020, 02:10:31 pm »
Jeffery Toobin collection was Books to masturbate by.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2020, 02:15:08 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 31, 2020, 02:10:31 pm
Jeffery Toobin collection was Books to masturbate by.
I suspect it wouldn't take much for Toobin. I hear he especially loves this book series.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2020, 02:47:05 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 31, 2020, 02:15:08 pm
I suspect it wouldn't take much for Toobin. I hear he especially loves this book series.


He even looks like a Broney.
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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2020, 02:52:32 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 31, 2020, 02:15:08 pm

I suspect it wouldn't take much for Toobin. I hear he especially loves this book series.


LOL!

Our local FOX affiliate on the morning news (4AM to 7AM)... the weatherman was broadcasting from home and in the background, the only thing hanging on the wall over the sofa...?

A Calvin & Hobbs photo in a frame.

Sure explains his ridiculously cheap, wrinkled suits and unstarched shirt collars.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2020, 02:56:18 pm »
I have to admit I spend more time looking at the background of some of these interviews with Zoom that I don't even listen to the commentary.
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2020, 03:44:26 pm »
I've done two Zoom meetings thus far. I have to sit in front of the bathroom door, but have managed to remember to close it first.  :pondering:
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« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2020, 03:50:24 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 31, 2020, 03:44:26 pm
I've done two Zoom meetings thus far. I have to sit in front of the bathroom door, but have managed to remember to close it first.  :pondering:

I've done a couple.  I do audio only, and tell the others in the Zoom I'm naked (even if I'm not, my hair is usually a mess).
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« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2020, 03:55:41 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 31, 2020, 03:44:26 pm
I've done two Zoom meetings thus far. I have to sit in front of the bathroom door, but have managed to remember to close it first.  :pondering:

If I did zoom, I think I would sit on the throne.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2020, 04:04:19 pm »
For me, clients get artificial backgrounds of photos of cows or horses.

Coworkers get the real background of six gun cabinets.
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Re: DC Snobs Are Buying Custom-Stocked Bookshelves To Look Sophisticated On TV And Zoom
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2021, 09:03:09 pm »
Do you know what I bought for a background? I kid thee not—a shower curtain.

A simple, plain, white shower curtain. If I'm using a Webcam that adjusts the exposure automatically, the webcam will cut the frame rate to a choppy 15p if the room gets too dark, so a white background keeps as much light reflecting back to the camera as possible, so the frame rate stays at 30p or higher and any movement is smooth.

(I also talk close to a real microphone, or at least a headset with a boom mic, which helps immensely in terms of eliminating echo.)
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« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2021, 09:08:26 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on January 01, 2021, 09:03:09 pm
Do you know what I bought for a background? I kid thee not—a shower curtain.

A simple, plain, white shower curtain. If I'm using a Webcam that adjusts the exposure automatically, the webcam will cut the frame rate to a choppy 15p if the room gets too dark, so a white background keeps as much light reflecting back to the camera as possible, so the frame rate stays at 30p or higher and any movement is smooth.

(I also talk close to a real microphone, or at least a headset with a boom mic, which helps immensely in terms of eliminating echo.)

Don't be popping the mic.... :patriot:
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« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2021, 09:18:09 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on December 31, 2020, 02:10:31 pm
Jeffery Toobin collection was Books to masturbate by.

Toobin's background probably looks like the back room at Blockbuster, circa 1990.
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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2021, 10:05:10 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on January 01, 2021, 09:18:09 pm
Toobin's background probably looks like the back room at Blockbuster, circa 1990.

Pull that curtain back and take a walk on the wild side!
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« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2021, 12:51:40 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on January 01, 2021, 09:08:26 pm
Don't be popping the mic.... :patriot:
Thankfully the thing has a built-in pop filter.
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