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NEW A MikeVideo from the vaults: 2002's "Faire Music"(Rated "G") 12/08

4 min. 44 sec (high quality mpg file).
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"Faire Music": (2002) I announced the creation of "Renaissance Day" on my very first MikeVideo page on AllThingsMike back in 1999 right after I shot over three hours of footage at the Renaissance Faire that summer. All MikeVideos were mastered on SVHS, and distributed on VHS tape prior to digital media. The Renaissance Day footage was shot on the then new "digital video tape" but it was always planned as a tape. Common folk couldn't master their own DVDs in those days. In fact, back in the days before YouTube, streaming movies on the internet weren't really popular (or easy to create.) As a promotion for the tape, I used video editing software to create "Faire Music". Those of us who braved the waters of early streaming technology found that the idea was delicious,but the resulting images on the computer when streaming (which took forever) looked so hopelessly pixelated that some scenes appeared as if they had been filmed underwater. I was on the forefront of the digital video revolution, but there wasn't really much of an audience. A lot of people just didn't have powerful enough computers or internet connections to be able to watch my first "internet movies", of which "Faire Music" was my third.

HERE IS A LINK to the Internet Archived AllThingsMike webpage from 2002 which annnounces this early version of "Renaissance Day" and has links to small, unsightly realvideo files. (The media links on the archived page don't work) My VHS videos were either half hour or hour shows, so I assumed "Renaissance Day" was going to be at least an hour. (the final internet movie is 20 minutes long, in two roughly 10 minute segments on YouTube)

I shot the footage in this "promotional" 4 min. 44 sec. "Music From the Renaissance Faire" video in 1999. The actual "Renaissance Faire"(2004)was made using footage from both 1999 and 2004 to tell the "story" of the Queen's arrival to a small English countryside town in the Elizabethan era."Faire Music", which on the internet in 2002 was a really shoddy looking "realvideo" file, had almost been forgotten.

However, while looking for video footage on old DVDs recently I found the .avi and .mpg files which look pretty good. I've uploaded the above.mpg file to YouTube. This utilizes some of the same footage as in "Renaissance Day", but the footage here is not edited. (There is a lot of shakycam during the bagpipists' duo.) So you get to see Glenn Morgan's performance in it's entirety.

I didn't even know I had a good copy of this video. Since YouTube allows videos of any type and size now, "Faire Music" can be watched in "high quality" HD. I think it's amazing that one of the first video I streamed from my AllThingsMike servers back in 2002, and I video I almost forgot about, can now be seen and enjoyed in High Definition video. Makes me think that I'm going to have to upload all my higher quality video files to YouTube. I've always regretted that in order to really show the high quality files, like Cultural Blender, on my website, I had to host the file myself, which used to cost a lot higher price than it does now, as bandwidth becomes cheaper and more readily available and computers and internet speeds are faster.

"Renaissance Day" became an internet movie in 2004,and cost me over $500.00 one month in bandwidth overage charges. I had taken it offline by the time YouTube went online and PARTS ONE and TWO have been on YouTube since December 2005.In order to upload the video, I had to chop it in two, and I don't think I ever mastered the avi files into a higher quality wmv or mpg file. I will attempt to upload the complete mpg file of Renaissance Day to YouTube, but I'm almost inspired to re-invent the video and master it in high def. MFN/ppf 12/05/08

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NEW "L.A. Dreams"(Rated "G") 11/08

 

8min. 36 sec (high quality wmv file 3 mbps)
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"L.A. Dreams": (2008) A photo/video slideshow showcasing downtown Los Angeles, scored to a mashup of L.A. themed songs and groups. In December of 2006 I published San Diego Dreams on YouTube, and the video is my most popular vid on the service, with over 80 comments. I've been wanting to put together an homage to the city in which I live, L.A., since I only visited San Diego for a weekend. L.A. Dreams is my "video response" to my own San Diego Dreams. Using video footage along with hundreds of photos culled from over four years of photographing the city in earnest, the editing took over two weeks. I want to show that L.A. is a beautiful city, with a mix of different styles of architecture. They say "nobody walks in L.A. Well, this video was taken during many walking tours of downtown.

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VideoBlog #9.3: Mike's Extreme Makeover Part Three 8/08/08

"Dancin' Fool" (1991) An archival MikeVideo from 1991. Mike performs some improvisational dance to the music of Artie Shaw. During the late 80s and early 90s, I frequently turned the camera on myself when performing dance, to music as varied as rock, big band, and rythym and blues. These tapes, originally on VHS, predated the "dance craze" videos on YouTube by almost 20 years. I would simply turn on the record or tape player, the camera, and start dancing. I never used these tapes in MikeVideos, and now that "dance moves' videos are really popular, I dusted this one off from 1991 and posted it on the WhenWordsCollide Video section in March of 2007.

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