When MJ died in 2009, i decided to make a tribute.

His music was good & the majority of his videos were too, but when i was a kid & watched Moonwalker, it was the Smooth Criminal video that blew my mind. The choreography, the lean, it was like magic captured on film. That video stuck with me & when i heard he died i watched it again & knew that if i was gonna do anything, it had to be the lean.

Most of the footage was unusable due to the camera i used, so i decided to take what i had & edit it together in windows movie maker. It was then that i remembered the Billie Jean effects. So i combined those two visual elements with my remix of Smooth Criminal & the end result is what you see above.

It’s cheesy & ridiculous at times, but it’s proof that windows movie maker is more useful than the majority would have you think.

I thought i’d cover this seeing as no one else on youtube had at the time. The day where i had the time to record, i happened to have a soar throat, so i gave it a few attempts & this turned out to be one of the better takes, believe it or not. It was recorded ages ago & i’ve only just found the file, so technically my banned Britney remix type thing is still the last cover i’ve done.

I’ve found a load of old footage & i’ll be uploading a few more videos to youtube over the next few days/hours.

Stuart and I discuss making music, from how we got into it, to where we see the industry today.

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The video of this was made & uploaded to youtube, where it lasted about 10 seconds before being banned in Germany by Sony. Then i got  a take-down notice, so maybe i’ll throw an instrumental version up in it’s place & see if they still fucking moan…

Craig and I discuss social networking, building an internet community and Craig’s lack of enthusiasm towards doing so.

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Craig & I will be recording the podcast today, so season 2 could end up starting earlier than expected. Look forward to more themed episodes, less pointless swearing & better audio quality.

I’m also on formspring now, so you can ask me anything you like.

I talked about a few things i had in the works last time so i’ll just give an update on those:
I’ve got a video of the DX11 ready to edit, so i’ll be throwing it up on youtube during the week.
I finished my Britney Spears remix, so i’ll be uploading it to soundcloud during the week as well.
I’ve planned & scripted my first (if you don’t count TAV’s) video review. I’m starting a new job tomorrow, so i have no idea when i’ll be able to film, edit & score it.

Season 2 is being recorded right now, We’ve got possibly 2 episodes in the bag & are still waiting on submissions for another episode. We have 3 more planned out, which will bring us to 6 out of 8.

MUSIC

I’m in the middle of a few things. The theme tune for season 2 of the podcast is done & i’m working on finishing two original tracks as well as a cover.

VIDEO

The camera i’ve been using recently isn’t that great, so i’ve been looking getting a new one. I tried this last year and ended up with a MiniDV with faulty DVout, so i’ll probably shop around a bit.
I really want to get a vid up with the DX11, showing what it can do, etc. The DX11 has been tagged in maybe 10 youtube videos out of, well, billions or some shit, so i’d like to change that. I’ll probably do another “A Bit Of…” video first.

OTHER

For some reason, words that end in g require double spacing after them, or they run together. I dunno if it’s a theme issue, or what, but i’ll try & sort that out as well.

Super Street Fighter IV is out in two days, so don’t expect me to post much in the way of updates. I try not to use this site as a personal blog anyway…

This is the first time either of us have tried this. We may run into problems with our upload speed & end up sounding like Stuart did on episode 4, or it may go smoothly.

This is the link to the show’s page. You can watch the stream & join the chat by clicking on it.

If you want to join the chat without having to listen to us, i think you can click this link & pretend you’re using irc.

UPDATE: That was a fucking disaster, sorry to anyone who tuned in.

We were going to record what should be episode 9 tonight, but things are happening that prevent us from doing so. Craig will be busy next week, so it’ll be 12th before we have time to record. When we do, it’ll be a themed episode, like episodes 3 & 6, but without any disturbing personal information (although with Stuart joining us again, you never know). We will have one topic & discuss it for the duration of the show (28mins, hopefully) and then I’ll upload as soon as i make an intro/outro.

The episode planned after that will also feature guests(?) & will be based on one thing, but not a question or an issue, just a subject that we’ll cover.

Rather than call these Episode 9 & Episode 10, I’m thinking of making them Season 2, Episode 1 & Season 2, episode 2. It would reflect the change of style & hosting, as well as get us in the right frame of mind to do six more episodes after that & make each season eight episodes, or roughly four hours long.

The change of style isn’t a massive departure, but I feel like we’ve been using news stories as filler lately & we’d like to get away from that. Mentioning current events dates the podcast as well. Back when we’d record during the week & upload four or five days later, the show would already be out of date & that resulted in at least one episode not going online at all, everything we discussed was old news & people wouldn’t remember the issues we were referring to. Episode 8 suffers slightly because we talk about a town that the majority of you will not have heard of. I left it in because most small towns have something like that, so even if you don’t know specifically what we’re referring to, you could at least relate…

I also want to promote the show more. If you’re thinking “Fuck sake, you already spam it like a bastard on aicn, twitter & bebo” then you’re in for a treat. I’m gonna try to get the show on other sites & see what happens. Soundcloud offered 100 downloads & unlimited streaming. We never came close to 100 downloads, so it worked out for us. Podomatic has bandwidth limits though, so it’ll be a battle trying to get the audience to grow while we stay beneath our limit. I’m thinking about Blip.tv for streaming & podomatic for mp3 downloads & rss/iTunes functionality.

If anyone has any other hosting ideas (or wants to host it, free of charge) feel free to leave a comment or contact me using the info on the About/Contact page.