November 14, 2004
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Announcing the NEW MikeVideo Section on AllThingsMike
My website, AllThingsMike, was created in 1999 to give a platform for my many creative interests. One of these is MikeVideo, my “production company” which has been shooting, assembling, and editing original material and clips compilations since 1986. Lately, the finished works are digital media files completely produced in the computer, for viewing on the internet. At first, using an analog RCA video camera and three tape decks, it took a lot of time and effort to turn creativity into art. All the older videos are on VHS, and over the past couple of weeks, I have diligently waded through about 25 assorted VHS masters and work tapes to gather some “stills” for inclusion in the Video Captures section of the new website spinoff. I have five pages online for the new site, including a “history of MikeVideo” which is nearly completed. I wanted to announce this new endeavor for a while here on the Xanga blog, but waited till I had enough content to impress readers and viewers at the speed with which I can create a full website. Most of the templates were completed on Wednesday, Nov. 10th, and I finished up what is online this weekend. I also have an example of one of the old videos online for download or streaming, a segment of the 1989 “Moviola Dance” which didn’t use camera footage, but was a series of musical segments edited to other music. The clip I’m featuring has the dance sequence from the musical “West Side Story” “manipulated” to the music of Roxette.
There really hasn’t been anything “new” on AllThingsMike all this year. I’ve written more poetry this year than in many years, and I have spent a lot of time maintaining the blog, and compiling the many photos on my Webshots gallery. But I sat down at the Dreamweaver program and constructed these new pages for a section that hasn’t seen many changes since 1999 when the original page went online. At that time, I proclaimed: “Someday we’ll all have our own television stations on the web”. I believed then, (when it was all free) and now, that the only limits to what one can put online is in one’s imagination. I use all the tools at my disposal to create something interesting, if not completely original. Check out the Captures pages when you get to the site, and see some of the images I have taken from the many hours of video footage I’ve shot. I haven’t even touched on the digital video as of yet. And I’m in the midst of reviving my long planned video “Renaissance Day” for the internet. There was a short version featured on my website in 2000. The new version will be about an hour long, and will be completely constructed on my PC. Eventually I’ll burn a DVD of the title. In 1999, my harebrained scheme was that people would pay for my videos as I made them available. For now, I only hope that people can view them and enjoy them. I maintain that anybody can do this. All they need are the tools, and they are being made less expensive as time goes on. The MikeVideo presence is an old one, dating back over fifteen years. The MikeVideo Section is NEW. Check it out. If you haven’t seen either “Beach Dreams” or “Painted Desert Dreams”, the 2004 “internet movies” from MikeVideo, they are available as streaming downloads from the main page of the site.
There is no guestbook on the page. Nobody signs them anyway. But you can always leave a comment on this post, which will be on the first page of the Xanga all this week. It always feels good to create something, and this is my latest project.
Link to the new MikeVideo Section on AllThingsMike
Link to the Streaming Windows Media File, “Moviola Dance: The Roxette sequence”
Comments (5)
Mike:
Long time no see. Just stopped by to say, “Hello”.
(Signed) Shoban Sen
Mike…I was taken aback by your flawless and descriptive praise that you have lavished on me this day…well every day that you visit my site.
I have yes only started writing poetry when I joined xanga but I have always had a passion for wiring …even when it was job related such as employee warnings…school essays and letters to my estranged but loved siblings.
my heritage is deeply rooted in Cherokee heritage and I hold much intruige for the mysteries of life .I think for most of my adult life I never felt the need to express myself verbally or literally for fear that I would as usual be misunderstood.
As a youth I was entranced with artistic values of plant life…but through the years with raising a family and attaining usless wordly posessions I lost myself….
Five years ago I had an awakening of sorts…I realised that life was moving and I was in this rut not really doing anything I loved and pretending to be someone that I was not…So that year I decided to come out…As the person that I was and not whom others wished me to be…So here I am…shy as a mouse until I need to espress some beauty that I have thought on for what to me seems like centuries…
I hope this Mike gives you some insight into the complicated butterfly that I call ME…
Dear Michael,
I’m going to try to view your video section in more detail as soon as I can. My computer connection is SO slow here because we’re on dial-up in this area since DSL isn’t available here yet, so it takes a hundred times longer to view anything from here. Hopefully, soon, we can get DSL here, and I will be able to fly on the internet!
Well, I hope so! I would love to be able to view your site in more detail with DSL! 
Thank you so much for your kind and beautiful words at my site. You always know what to say to help me feel better just with your words.
Thank you for being the beautiful person you are, Michael. I’m so glad to know you. 
(((((Hugs)))))
Shara
Dear Mike, Gobs and bogs of great stuff. Gotta spend more time here.
Hi, enjoyed your Moviola Dance and some reading. So many pages you can’t begin to follow it all. Talent spewed all over the place.
You mentioned on my photo site you have some zoo pics up somewhere on your xanga pages. I do love the zoo, everything about it and the animals and always wishing though they could have much larger areas and much more natural but think that the money needed to do it would be astronomically more than they have. I am glad for their programs that help to perpetuate species that may no longer be with us in the near future without their help. Sad day for the world I think to lose animals here for so long before us.
Read your entry here about glaucoma and cataracts. The surgery for cataracts is so successful. I know many who have had it done and have been thrilled. I imagine by the time you need it things will be even more outstanding the quality and success and healing.
Thanks for your visit to my site’s, anytime.
Regards,