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Re: [TCML] Re: [UK] Coiling in the Media
The media interest is for several reasons. First, is the exposure of the
site. There are photos or links from many other sites - I have listed 1100
of them here:
http://tesladownunder.com/Backward%20Links.htm which include the IEEE
article. When you have a lot of links to you rate more highly in Google
searches. Google for Tesla coil and I have 3 of the top 10 entries. I was
doing better but my hit counter went down for a day and took my site down
too and I dropped 20 places.
Secondly I have unique and colorful Tesla coil effects that look good in
print. Even after 9 months of being very popular, no-one has replicated the
Eye of Sauron effect, multicolored sparks or various other long exposure
effects like the Red Alert scene or the Xmas tree. Shame really, since it
is very easy to do. (much easier than building a DRSSTC for example).
Simply photographing a Tesla coil is not of much interest for the media. A
big Tesla coil looks the same as a small one on screen unless you have a
person in it for scale hence the Dalek cage was popular. Likewise different
Tesla coil effects like the musical DRSSTC's of Steve Ward, Steve Connor
and the Geek group are doing well but these are not visual effects that will
show in print media. Really big TC's like the BIGG coil get covered
infrequently but even ones like Syd Klinge's dual Cauac coils didn't get
much. Also a lot of coils used in other events won't be covered separately
from the event for various reasons.
Thirdly there is a bit of a snowball effect. I have had at least 1 press
request from seeing the Metro article.
If anyone wants to send me the Metro article page I would be grateful. (It's
old news now)
Cheers
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clive Hansen" <mrclivehansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Re: [UK] Coiling in the Media
I believe that there was an article in IEEE Spectrum about your car coil.
Thats what originally directed my to your site. How did the media become
interested in your projects?
-Clive
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