Feeling lazy today, so I figured it would be a good time to finally get around to launching my project where I go through the 406 videos (almost all made my yours truly) on my YouTybe account and posting the best of the lot here, along with, of course, my sparkling and entertaining commentary.
Before I get to that – wow, 406 videos. When you make one every day, they add up fast. And I just want to acknowledge that most people have not made 400 videos, or 400 of anything creative really, and that I should be proud of that accomplishment.
And I am. Sorta. Look, I’m working on it, okay?
And that’s not even all of them. I had more but they were on my previous YouTube account which got nuked for copyright violations plus me being an idiot and ignoring the many, many chances I had to take down the offending video and save the account.
Oh well, lesson learned. Now, on with the show!
First, me being silly with images!
Those were fun to make. I love riffing off things like that.
Although I could never figure out a way to present them that I found entirely satisfactory. Caption before the picture? Caption after? Caption during as subtitles?
That’s why I started doing the jokes via voiceover eventually. That had its problems too, but at least the timing felt right.
Jay Leno made it seem so easy! And all he had was pictures on cardboard.
SHOW was originally meant to be a show where I presented bits of fun video as a kind of host. But it did not take long for me to realize I was entirely surperfluous and it worked a lot better if I stayed out of the picture.
I’m glad that episode is still there. It’s my favorite. It turned out really well and it shows how I was really getting into the art of editing video at the time.
I find it highly satisfying. It’s kind of like composing and kind of like writing and kind of like painting a picture, but it’s really its own rich and marvelous art.
That stuff with the coach and the kids is a real sex ed video, by the way. I tired my best to put the clips in order of ascending pervertedness and blatancy of homosexuality.
It was a simpler and more innocent time, where you could make something like that knowing that nobody would call you out on it for fear of seeming like a pervert themselves for noticing.
That’s a real thigh-slappingly racist cartoon from the 60’s, too. Isn’t it strange how the products of a simpler and more innocent time can be some of the most horribly wrong stuff around at the same time?
Oh, and I swear I had no idea how homoerotic that “Capital I” song was until I saw it in the context of that video.
Rubbing it here, scrubbing it there..
More after the break.
I’d forgotten all about this. Yay, another compilation!
Tons of great stuff in there, including a bunch of clips from the episodes of my vlog that aren’t on my current YouTube account.
I am especially happy that it includes clips from my most patient and supportive reader, the always fabulous Felicity Walker.
Love you, dear. Love sharing you with the world.
“Remove all numerals except six. ” Numbers disappear slowly while dramatic music plays in the background. “666!”
That clip still blows my mind. It take real talent (of a sort) to come up with something that frontal cortex bogglingly stupid.
Well, it was either that, or some hack screenwriter would have had to do math, so clearly, that line was the only choice.
And yup, Ayd’s was a real product. I know the clip from the ad seems too good to be true, but the world is just that fucked up sometimes.
Ayd’s has nothing in it to make me nervous!
And then there’s Community Notes. That is still the thing I have made that came closest to coming out exactly how I wanted it.
Music is too loud relative to the voiceover though. Dammit.
Oh, and I wasn’t sure about that Zombie Clown Patrol bit, but people seemed to find it pretty funny anyway.
Damn I miss that shirt. It was so damn comfy.
And now one of the few things I have written that was actually produced.
It has MORE FELICITY WALKER!! Awesome.
Yes, I wrote that silly ass thing. Seems a tad simplistic and crude to me now, but then again, I wrote that 10+ years plus a VFS education ago.
For all the good THAT did me.
Fun fact : that voiceover was provided by my beloved roommate and life competence provider, Joseph Devoy.
And yeah, the acting is a tad unrefined, but what the heck, none of us are professionals, and this was something we put together just for the hell of it.
I did the editing too, of course. I edited all these videos. Just part of the service when you watch a video by my crazy self.
Interviewer : You write. You act. You edit. You compose music. Tell me, why did you decide to master all these disciplines?
Me : Because I’m a depressed loner with serious social issues and it was the only way to get things done without involving other people.
It often turns out that way. In modern society we admire people for their independence like it’s an admirable character trait when the reality might be they are severely psychologically maladjusted and thus did not have much of a choice about it.
You know. Kinda like me.
Actually, exactly like me.
Which is pretty sad. but at least I got loads of talent out of it.
Now it’s just a matter of becoming sane enough to make money with it.
And how hard can that be?
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.