Annals Of Innovation–Creature Cams: Filming wildlife ain’t easy. If the life is really wild, it spooks easily and doesn’t hang around so an army of humans, with berets, cameras, and deli trays can shoot take after take. So give max credit to English wildlife documentary producer John Downer, who decided that the only way to get up close and personal with bears, lions and elephants, was to stuff mini cameras into fake salmon, garbage cans, boulders and bamboo. Sure, the cameras get bashed around and slobbered on, but the results are spectacular, and sort of hilarious. Just check out this captivating and funny video trailer of Downer’s work with bears (in one shot you can practically count every tooth in the bear’s mouth; great soundtrack, too. Maurice Chevalier?). You can also check out Downer’s work with lions, featuring “boulder-cam,” and elephants. The ever-creative “elephant dung-cam” video takes you closer to an elephant mud bath than you’ve ever been (assuming you’d like to get close to an elephant mud bath, of course). Great stuff. The CIA or MI6 should hire this guy…



Salmon Cam: “Holy Haddock! Is this a wildlife documentary or fish-porn? And I’m not even getting my screen actors card out of it…”