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Patron exclusive: Color Classic

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, oops

I 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 pre...

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Video: An MP3 Jukebox For Everyone (Including the RIAA)

Video: An MP3 Jukebox For Everyone (Including the RIAA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_-1TOyifc

Hey 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 ...

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Patron exclusive: Commodore 128 mail call

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...

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Patron video: Steadicam setup & demo

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, ...

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Patron video: Titlers

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

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Video: Weird Tech From California

Video: Weird Tech From California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSziGIktyYU

This 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...

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Patron exclusive: California Travelogue 2022

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 b...

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Video: IBM's First Laptop (Was Terrible)

Video: IBM's First Laptop (Was Terrible)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl_JbZIcUU

This 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 prepa...

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Video: Eduquest - Death & Rebirth

Video: Eduquest - Death & Rebirth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip32N476eaw

An 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. ...

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Video: The Perfect 8-Bit Computer Monitor?

Video: The Perfect 8-Bit Computer Monitor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGdfGhlIquk

Oh 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 ...

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Video: A Short Story About Shorts

Video: A Short Story About Shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJ_6LCly4A

Gonna 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 ...

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Video: Poweredge Saga

Video: Poweredge Saga

https://youtu.be/MQRpIUu3dMw

Edit: 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...

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Patron video: New Gear!

Patron video: New Gear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPARZeSbvc

There 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 minu...

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Video: Scanner Mouse

Video: Scanner Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjleq0PJX0

I'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 mi...

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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.

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I eliminated CD swaps FOREVER.

I eliminated CD swaps FOREVER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRuhRfvIkn0

This 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...

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Video: A really early dye-sub printer

Video: A really early dye-sub printer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIrQX5bvzow

Periodically 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 n...

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Video: The first thing that ever used MPEG4

Video: The first thing that ever used MPEG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3afPmSnbY

Well! 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...

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Video: A CD-R, that's only partly a CD-R

Video: A CD-R, that's only partly a CD-R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ucImqdKbY

Well! 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'...

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Patron video / announcement: Tricaster TCXD300 unboxing!!!

Patron video / announcement: Tricaster TCXD300 unboxing!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGz86Ezlbl8

TWO 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 t...

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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 ...

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Lost Futures: Sony's Streaming Camcorder Laptop??

Lost Futures: Sony's Streaming Camcorder Laptop??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB-BRBmv34k

Hello. 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 day...

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Video: Learning to run a broadcast in one hour

Video: Learning to run a broadcast in one hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZinM9XFoIg

A 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 g...

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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...

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Video: The Sprite Tape Mystery

Video: The Sprite Tape Mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6SXzmcqPY

Hi 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...

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Video: The Headstart Explorer's Lame Graphical "OS"

Video: The Headstart Explorer's Lame Graphical "OS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1jpIiST6ec

I 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 key...

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Video: HD over 1000ft of cable?!

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=YYAVrLBKavM

A few months ago I found ...

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Bonus video: Nostalgia

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 ...

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Fax line

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK03udDD4y0ogLl5ZtraYcfdDGSCYbSnR-DiBROOXRbSAKRQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

I'm finally setting up my fax line. If you want to maybe receive faxes (conte...

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Video: Unboxing the Year 2000

Video: Unboxing the Year 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWWkBLhkig8

As 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 t...

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