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Patron exclusive: Color Classic
I picked up a couple of neat things and decided to make a video about them in time for christmas! Wait, uh, oopsI shot this like a week ago, then uhhhhhh things happened. I did not expect to write, shoot and release a public video in time for Christmas but that kinda took priority once I realized I could do it, and then I was pretty worn out over The Holiday. So that's why I make several Christmas references in this! Because it wasn't, ye...
Video: An MP3 Jukebox For Everyone (Including the RIAA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_-1TOyifcHey everyone! I know it's late, and I'll be releasing this publicly in the morning so it won't be much of an early access, but phew - it has been nearly a month since I released a video, for reasons that are hard to encapsulate.I can't believe this was just there at the junk store. I walked in and saw it and - I am not exaggerating here - I jumped for joy. I actually jumped, and I yelled ...
Patron exclusive: Commodore 128 mail call
Haven't done a mail call video in a while, but I got a Commodore 128 from a viewer the other day and figured you all might like to hear a little bit about it, since (IME, at least) it's one of the less-covered 8-bit machines. This video is kinda rough if you ask me because I shot it at home with my awful old Panasonic camcorder (and man, I never quite remember how much I hate that thing until I try to use it) but I hope you enjoy it, and ...
Patron video: Steadicam setup & demo
Hello, new patrons! Since there's quite a few new subscribers after the last exclusive, it made me think that now would be a good time to try to get back to making more of the same.I'm in the studio quite a bit, doing stuff - some of it's interesting, but I don't record most of it, and that's a bummer. I could record more of it, and it would probably be fun to watch, and hey, I'm already doing the stuff. It's free real...
Patron video: Titlers
I was in the office and I looked at my Titler Shelf and I thought "people might want to see that"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2615OKUo4RE
Video: Weird Tech From California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSziGIktyYUThis was a quick one, no particular commentary about it, I just wanted to follow up the trip video by showing some of the stuff I got actually working (and tempt more people into signing up for patreon, heh.) Next video should have a bit more meat on it. Thanks everyone!
Patron exclusive: California Travelogue 2022
Hello everyone! Thank you for taking the time to watch my dreary vacation footage! But more importantly, thank you all for supporting me. Let me take a moment to talk about that.I couldn't have gone on a vacation at all without your help. My job does not pay great, Patreon is literally half my income, and without it I would not be able to pay the bills for my household and have enough left over for the occasional hamburger, let alone a road t...
Video: IBM's First Laptop (Was Terrible)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl_JbZIcUUThis one doesn't really need the lengthy making-of Patreon post because I decided I owed some explanation to my audience in general, so I just put it at the end of the video itself. I bit off more than I was prepared to chew with this one, and the pacing and info density really ended up being more aggressive than I would have liked.Someone described this video as "socratic" - working up from ...
Video: Eduquest - Death & Rebirth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip32N476eawAn enormous number of you probably weren't patrons at the time that I made the predecessor to this video. Over a year ago, I got an IBM Eduquest, dashed off a quick unscripted video about it, and said I'd return. Then I never did, for a variety of reasons - now explained.I now have two Eduquests, and I like the new one quite a lot. The old one was cool, and I respect it still, but this one's ...
Video: The Perfect 8-Bit Computer Monitor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGdfGhlIqukOh man. This was an absurd video to make, for no good reason.First, the things that worked: You may notice the wardrobe change. Up until now, I've been completely married to collared shirts, for a couple reasons, one of which being that I need something to clip my lav mic to (I've tried the various T-shirt techniques with no success.)For this one, I was just viciously opposed to putting on the co...
Video: A Short Story About Shorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4AGonna release this right now, no time for early access. Things have not gone to plan at all lately - this video was supposed to be out last week.It speaks for itself for the most part, but _man_, it's just yet more proof that I cannot make a "simple" video.I got myself all upset about this big lump of crap sitting in my office for six months while i hemmed and hawed over it, so I banged out a...
Video: Poweredge Saga
https://youtu.be/MQRpIUu3dMwEdit: I've discovered that A) I haven't released a video in a full month and B) even the copy I uploaded two days ago is still not at 4K. I was using this processing delay as an "early access" period, but it seems Youtube is jammed again and the delay may never end.Since only a fraction of my audience watches at 4K and I desperately need to get a video out, I'm gonna release it now. If you particula...
Patron video: New Gear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPARZeSbvcThere are some videos I've wanted to shoot for quite a long time, but couldn't because I only had one camera. That changes today.Thank you all so much for your continued support, and watch the last few minutes for further gratitude.I am hoping to have a new video out on Tuesday at the latest. It has been a rough couple months but I am hoping that I am getting back on the horse.
Video: Scanner Mouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjleq0PJX0I'm putting this out for you all without a thumbnail or a proper title or chapters or anything because I'm still kinda reeling from having finished anything at all. Having trouble getting back into a routine. I might end up retracting this if I find any major errors but it's been so long I just wanted to get it in front of people. Will do the rest of the work before I release it on Monday.Thi...
Sad news (public)
Not sure why I felt like I shouldn't post this earlier since I figure people would want to know. My cat, Gibbs, who was sort of a mascot to some viewers, is no longer with us. He got very sick, very rapidly, and we were told there was nothing we could really do other than euthanasia. I was extremely close to him and I am pretty devastated.My usual approach to mourning is to work through it so this probably won't have that much effect on m...
I eliminated CD swaps FOREVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuhRfvIkn0This is a video I've been wanting to make for a long time. I had not attempted it until now because I knew it would be a tremendous amount of work; it was, for several reasons.First because it's documenting a whole branch of computer technology most of us know nothing about - I was unaware it existed until about five months ago. I had to research it until I was reasonably confident that I knew wh...
Video: A really early dye-sub printer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIrQX5bvzowPeriodically I tell myself I'm going to make a Short Simple Video where I just show off a thing and don't make a Narrative out of it. I am incapable of that, but this is still the closest thing to a "eh, this is neat I guess" that I'm capable of. That's why it ends kind of abruptly, there's no real wrap-up for once because it's not part of a larger story. My goal is to som...
Video: The first thing that ever used MPEG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3afPmSnbYWell! This is kind of a long time coming, although nobody knew that. While the ostensible topic (hey, it IS over 2/3 of the runtime, to be fair to me) of the video was a very recent discovery and acquisition, this is also a sleeper followup to a previous story.At the end of my video on the Hitachi Mpegcam, I mentioned that their website did say they made a second model (at least, I think I mentioned that...
Video: A CD-R, that's only partly a CD-R
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ucImqdKbYWell! There it is! In 1080p, at least - YT is once again dragging on the 4K.But there it is! Software cracking! Microscope photos! A disc format that Foone doesn't have! (I'll send one to them.) This video's got it all.I was not planning on having a new video this soon, since I'm ramping up to do my 100K celebratory show next weekend (see notes in previous post - it'll be a live broad...
Patron video / announcement: Tricaster TCXD300 unboxing!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGz86Ezlbl8TWO THINGS:1) I received a WILDLY unexpected donation, completely outrageous and with incredibly convenient timing. I'm not ready to show it to everyone yet, but I'm happy to share it with you in this video.2) The reason it's convenient is because I'm planning a celebratory livestream when I hit 100,000 subs, which I expect to happen mid-next week, and the event will be a live multicamera...
Premiering new video
Hey everyone - if you're watching my new video on the Vaio, or planned to, you may have just been interrupted. Sorry, Youtube is bad.I planned to release it as a Premiere, but forgot that there's no "backdoor" link, so once I enable that about five minutes from now, it becomes "private" until the release tomorrow.If you were planning on watching it tonight, you can see an alternate copy in 1080p here: https://www.youtube.c...
Lost Futures: Sony's Streaming Camcorder Laptop??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-BRBmv34kHello. A couple things.Yes, this video is done, and I'd love for you to enjoy it. Here's how that sentence originally continued:However, Youtube broke something a couple days ago, and the processing... process, currently takes 2+ days to complete. I have no idea if or when this will end, it's been like this for a week. For now, it's in 1080, so if you only have a 1080 or lower display, no...
Video: Learning to run a broadcast in one hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZinM9XFoIgA couple months ago someone I know on twitter told me that they had a bunch of video gear I might be interested in buying, and I was, so they made plans to come by while they were driving through the state for a gig. They also said they had a Newtek Tricaster, and would I like to borrow it for a video?Of course I said yes, because the Tricaster is extremely cool and has an interesting background both cul...
On Decor
Did you know: the set isn't supposed to just have a single bookcase on it.Did you know: it was supposed to have two more shorter bookcases completing the look.Did you know: I ordered those before I put the one bookcase on the set, thinking I would have one video with just one bookcase, and then the next would have another, and so on.Did you know: I'm told they will arrive in a month.Did you know: I'm now stuck making videos in front o...
Video: The Sprite Tape Mystery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6SXzmcqPYHi everyone. I have once again put more effort into a video than the topic necessarily deserved, hopefully to your benefit.Note: For some reason, this video will not convert to 4K. Since the majority of my viewers are vocally uninterested in 4K, I'll probably just release it like this. Youtube claims it will "eventually" finish and become available at full res, but I'm not holding my brea...
Video: The Headstart Explorer's Lame Graphical "OS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1jpIiST6ecI have no idea what happened for the last two+ weeks but I've just been completely out of it. Finally got a video together!I think I found this machine about four years ago on eBay, was intrigued by the keyboard mechanism, and then found some screenshots of the built in software that instantly made me smash that Buy It Now. As I observe in the first minute of the video, I find most PC clones super bo...
Video: HD over 1000ft of cable?!
Edit: I made two boneheaded mistakes (missing credit, color grading error) and had to reupload.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAVrLBKavMA few months ago I found out that security cameras went to HD formats a long, long time ago, and while security cameras are tremendously boring, it's phenomenally cool that this industry quietly picked up NTSC and ran with it, and completely bizarre that nobody knows. Not a single person I've spoken to ...
Bonus video: Nostalgia
Back in March 2021 I shot this entire video about how video mixers work, demonstrated on a specific model I have, then trashed the whole project because I didn't have the space and hardware to do it right (and I still don't) but I found the rough cut on a spare drive today and was astonished at just how poorly I'd scripted it.Not that it was bad writing per se, but I guess I just wasn't really thinking about the audience the way I...
Fax line
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK03udDD4y0ogLl5ZtraYcfdDGSCYbSnR-DiBROOXRbSAKRQ/viewform?usp=sf_linkI'm finally setting up my fax line. If you want to maybe receive faxes (content and frequency unknown) you can sign up there. You can also fax me at 206.844.3389 although it may not get through since I'm still finalizing my setup.
Video: Unboxing the Year 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWWkBLhkig8As per my last update, I admit that this feels a little filler-y, and it was in fact all I could really manage due to my condition - you can actually hear my voice going hoarse at time - but I was going to make it anyway, since I received all this stuff and really a big unboxing was the only thing that made sense. So here's that.Couple updates post-shoot:As the video explains, this stuff was all boug...
