Video Clips
If a picture is worth a thousand words, these videos must merit at least eleven hundred each.

Boomstick Deodorant
by Arlo Midgett

Boomstick Deodorant -- Strong enough for a man, but made for the computer gamer. My first project in a video club.

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Boomstick webpage Panhandle Picture Show

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Doctrine: The Channel 4 Interview
by Michael Maas

Doctrine: The Channel 4 News Interview is a short film by Michael Maas, created with a group of people who take turns churning out one short film a month, learning about the process and having fun along the way. This group is sometimes called Hidden Alien Productions, or Some Sorta Video Club. This is Maas's first foray into video; he is also a singer/songwriter/piano player.

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Doctrine: The Best of JUMP
by Michael Maas and Arlo Midgett

None of our video club entries made it into the Best of JUMP film festival. We were bitter and we mocked them.

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Once Upon a Time on
a Dark and Stormy Night
by Amelia Jenkins

Quick, clear, concise, and to the point, without being repetitive, redundant, or saying things over and over and over again.

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XAS
By Arlo Midgett

Not every venue has the best sound system.

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Coffee and a Donut
By Oksana Midgett

A window into the world of being treated differently because of your accent.

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Mr. Problem Solver
By Jeff Haskell

"If you've got a problem, let me solve it for ya, mate!"

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All My ExGirlfriends have
Girlfriends Now

The music is by Michael Maas, but Joseph Sears wrote and directed this music video.

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PSA: Protection
By Mona Yarnall

Participants of a group therapy session share their personal experiences.

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PSA: Safe Surfin'
By Mona Yarnall

A couple anticipates the possibility of a positive test.

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Kite Club
By Elise Tomlinson

Did you know, in the Pakistani city of Lahore, Kite flying has been made illegal?

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Pimp My Couch
By Edra Morledge

Today is Missy's big day; her couch is about to be pimped.

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Intro Teaser (DVD Menu)
A little something I put together for a Halloween compilation DVD.

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Team Computing Montage
No video exists for the first annual UAS Halloween costume competition. Until now, that is.

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The BattleBots
In 2001, Computing Services decided on a BattleBots theme and paraded around campus on Halloween drumming up support for their department. Since I wasn't competing in this year's costume contest (having no idea how to best my previous year's entry), I was asked to tag along for a little bit and videotape some of the action. I was only able to gather 28 minutes worth of footage before the competition was over and the awards handed out. It was enough.

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This is their story.

(In video form!)

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Pirates Teaser
In order to generate hype, a video teaser was created before the music video (below) and circulated around campus a couple weeks before the 2004 Halloween contest.

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Pirates Music Video
For the increasingly popular UAS Halloween contest in 2003, the ITS department's theme was Pirates of the Caribbean. Once again, the computer center crew pulled out all the stops by turning cardboard, colorful rags, and duct tape (they always use duct tape) into period costumes and accessories. Once again, their efforts paid off as they won Best Group.

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Spam!
In order to promote the rollout of new anti-spam software (and to generally just annoy everyone on campus), ITS dressed up as e-mail spam in 2004.

This was the first year that the winning department's name was permanently engraved on a fancy Chancellor-commissioned plaque.

It was also the first year that ITS lost.

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SEAMONSTER HD
This was my first experiment with HD footage, from shooting to editing to encoding.

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PAX: Omegathon Finale
I got to work on the Halo 3 visuals for the 2007 Omegathon finale at PAX. Here's the view from the back audio stage.

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PAX: Omeganaut Slideshow
Due to time constraits, The Omeganaut slideshow that I created for the the last round of the PAX 2007 Omegathon was rushed. Consider this the director's cut.

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Yozhik's Memorial
On June 1st, 2006, our hedgehog, Yozhik, died of cancer. I thought that the best way to remember him would be to create a video out of the few photos and video clips we had.

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Old Arbat Portrait
In July 2006, my wife and I took a trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. On our last day in Moscow, we went back to Old Arbat to have our portrait painted.

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Post-ITS II
It's the beginning of the end (or is it the end of the beginning?) for the Post-IT Note mosaic in IT Services.

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Post-ITS
While the cat's away, the mice shall play.

Michael Ciri, Director of Information Technology Services (DITS), happened to be in Orlando attending Educause when National Boss Day rolled around in October 2005. Our department chipped in to make him a little something before he got back.

The music, which was selected more for its tempo than its lyrical content, is by the inestimable Jonathan Coulton.

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Wedding Invitation Video
I decided to do everything I could to get the out-of-towners to come to our wedding. This video was burned to a custom CD-ROM and included with every invitation we sent out.

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Folf!
An exercise in editing. The titles give all the explanation that's needed...

...but it's just Frisbee Golf, Alaska Style.

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VM's Choice / Comedian Trailer
Combining "VM's Choice" footage with the "Comedian" movie trailer to great effect. Hey, it's a mashup!

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Sunrise over Machu Picchu
This is a 30-minute video I took with my laptop at the Portal of the Sun above Machu Picchu. It has been time-lapsed to 30-seconds or so and you can see the sunrise and its effects on the clouds. Very impressive footage, I think, and unfortunate that the mini-camera on my Sony Picturebook wasn't able to auto-adjust for the sunlight...

Watch the clounds in the lower right. And keep an eye out for the speeding bus!

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Sunrise over Haleakala
Another sunrise in another part of the world. This time, I had the benefit of using an actual video camera, though I still used my Sony Picturebook write the images to its hard drive.

It's like watching a sunrise from an airplane.

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Haleakala Clouds
Late in the afternoon, clouds flood into Maui's Haleakala Crater.

Apparently, at 9:30am, they just boil off.

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Manta Rays
Via tourist word-of-mouth, Oksana and I discovered an amazing night dive off The Big Island in Hawaii. Even better, a videographer was on hand, underwater, to record the experience.

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Cusco New Year's, 2002
At midnight on New Year's, the Plaza de Armas in Cusco instantly changed from thousands of people standing around to thousands of people churning around the square. One of the most surreal New Year's spectacles I've participated in -- and I've been in some doozies.

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Peruvian Dinner Music
Pleasant dinner music for our Christmas gathering in Puno, Peru.

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Venezuela Music Video Intro
Way back when, I decided to try to make an animated ("active", as opposed to "hand-drawn") music video out of still images. Photos from my trip to Venezuela seemed perfect and I got right to work. This video is as far as I got, but every time I see it, I want to get back to editing -- but maybe in a program that handles motion better than Premiere 6 does.

This is in an unfinished state; you'll notice because I edited out parts of the music.

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Ultimate Frisbee "Commercial"
Put together after a day of shooting our pickup games, this was intended to be a fun little piece to generate interest in Ultimate.

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UPSEA Tournament, Game 5
This is a highlight video for the penultimate game of the first Ultimate Players of Southeast Alaska's tournament.

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UPSEA Tournament, Game 7
This is a highlight video for the final (championship) game of the first Ultimate Players of Southeast Alaska's tournament.

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Craig's Chain Gang
In the summer of 2002, Rotary district 5010 sponsored a trail-buiding project for their Youth Exchange Program. Many high school exchange students from all over the world spent a day at UAS clearing a path, digging trenches, and spreading gravel to create the trail to the gazebo we have today.

I shot and edited this video in the span of 24 hours so that it could be shown at a Rotary meeting the very next day.

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