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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 ...
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 belie...
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 ...
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, a...
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. Th...
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 i...
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 pacin...
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 r...
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...
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: 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 ...
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 ha...
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...
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 extre...
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...
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 ca...
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 st...
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 havi...
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 becau...
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 "p...
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...
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 Tricast...
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 ...
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 pr...
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 screenshot...
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 phenomen...
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...
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...
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...
