"Someday we'll all have our own television stations on the internet"
Michael F. Nyiri 1999
MikeVideo YouTube Channel
Photo Slideshows
In the early '00s, when going on "Photo Expeditions" I used a Sony DCR PC10 digital video recorder with a "stills" function. The stills had very low resolution, and the highest quality video was only 240p. In the early days of the internet, however, posted videos appeared in small popup windows. HD and full screen displays were to come much later.
I would make "Photo Posts" for my blog, and also little vids for YouTube. Some of the vids were a mix of video and some of the still photos. One of the most popular of these series were the "Cloudscaping" vids, utilizing not only photo still slideshows and video, but timelapse video as well.
After immersing myself in HDR photography in 2015, my video output, both shooting and editing, slowed to a crawl. I've mainly concentrated on the processing of my still photography. In early 2024 however, I have made and posted two slideshows highlighting the Best of 2023 and 2022 photos.
The Best of 2023 Slideshow
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: July 07, 2024
HD 1080p
Running Time: 4:56 min
It took a long time, but I've finally begun to compile my "Best of" series of photo slideshows. This is the first, using Adobe Premiere, backed with AI music generated from my prompts on the Suno service.
The Best of 2022 Slideshow
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: July 11, 2024
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Running Time: 5:43 min
After creating the Best of 2023 I immediately went to work on the Best of 2022 video, which features a selection of my best photos taken during that year. This is the first video I've used the Slideshow Carousel introduction clip which was made with Adobe After Effects a couple of years ago and now finally used on a project.
Cloudscaping Too
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: July 2013
HD
Running Time: 4:30 min
This is the second of three vids in the "Cloudscaping" series.
From my post in 2013: My latest and greatest. Someday one of these artistic little slideshows will become viral. I just know it.
Timelapse Videos
110 Timelapse
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: March 1, 2015
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Running Time: 4:01 min
During one morning in 2015, blessed with a terrific cloudscape, I mounted my camera on my dash and created a "dashcamlapse" while driving the entire length of the 110 Freeway, from my home to Pasadena. The vid is scored to Golden Earring's quintessential driving song: Radar Love.
Dance Videos
Long before young people were dancing on TikTok, I was creating my "Friday Night Dance" series for my Xanga Blog, WhenWordsCollide. I have quite a few rather embarrassing examples on my YouTube Channel.
And Now We Dance
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: January 2013
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Running Time: 4:12 min
Another interpretive dance performance from the old bald guy. The music is Rafiki, by Zap Mama, from the 2005 album "A Ma Zone". There are no edits. I'm 59 years young in this video, and I work out sometimes by dancing.
Mike's Video Blog: Jan 1st, 2013
A Dance to 2013
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: January 1, 2013
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Running Time: 21:38 min
Mike's 16th video blog is a tribute to the new year, containing a number of dance performances, plus humorous commentary. Recorded entirely on New Year's Eve, and edited, rendered and "directed" and uploaded to YouTube on New Year's Day 2013.
I've now rounded the seventieth decade of life, and my energy level, health, and creativity are high. I'm a bit embarrassed when I look at my "Video Blogs" and dance videos uploaded to YouTube so long ago. But I won't take them down. I was a "creator" before there were "creators" and I'm proud of the hours I spent entertaining my fellow bloggers on the Xanga service, which is where I got the interaction for most of the vids I posted on YouTube.
Video Series
MikeVideos have always been intended to be a mixture of photographed or videotaped footage, mixed with found footage recorded from other media. Here are some early examples of video compilations. The Cultural Blender was a companion piece to one of my website sections, and The History of MikeVideo The Analog Years attempts to cobble together highlights of some of my early taped vids from the late 1980s.
Cultural Blender 1 (remastered)
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: April 22, 2007
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Running Time: 9:21 min
Even today, in 2024, as I upload a new remastered HD version of this video, my "Cultural Blender" internet movie is pretty astounding. I threw all my creativity and video expertise of the time in creating a companion video to the "Cultural Blender" section of the AllThingsMike website. (link takes you to the archived site on the Intenet Archive Wayback Machine)
The image for the website of the blender itself is filled with cultural icons from my own lifetime, from the late 1950s to the "internet present" of the early '00s. In the video, selected icons from the blender are highlighed. I made a Cultural Blender 2 a few years later which can also be found on my YouTube channel.
Introduction from my Cultural Blender website when I posted the video:. Completely animated in my new Vegas movie editing software by Sony, the movie is a "flash animatiion" type video, in which 16 of the "icons" pictured in the Cultural Blender image... "come to life", jump out of the Blender, and are "celebrated" with images, video, music and soundbytes.
A History of MikeVideo: Episode 1: The Analog Years
A MikeVideo Internet Movie: Jan 02, 2007
Running Time: 9:59 min
This is what was intended to be Part 1 of a multipart "History" of MikeVideo, and showcases my really early videos, which were a mixture of taped segments, recorded with a massive pre camcorder RCA videocamera, and "found footage", taped off of TV.