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The wobble
“Thirty years cooking, and this wobbles.”
Vertical 9:16 close-up, phone propped on the counter, in a modern apartment kitchen, black glass electric cooktop, rice cooker and sauce jars, warm late-afternoon light. A 60-year-old Vietnamese-American woman, short permed black hair streaked with grey, rimless glasses, plum cardigan over a floral blouse, jade bangle, sets a round-bottomed carbon-steel wok on the flat black glass cooktop; it rocks and spins in a slow circle. She stops it with one finger and looks at the lens over her glasses, unimpressed. Static camera, warm late-afternoon light, natural skin texture, shot on iPhone, handheld, unpolished, vertical 9:16. She says: "Thirty years cooking, and this wobbles." No captions or on-screen text.- duration
- 3 s
- aspect ratio
- 9:16
- resolution
- 720p · 24 fps
- audio
- always on — normalise to −14 LUFS in the edit
- image urls
- creator, setting (guides look, doesn't lock frame 1)
