#273922 - 08/01/0405:23 AMICoN's Video Archive (Updated: 2/27)
MikeIcon
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 27/03/03
Loc: Philadelphia, PA - USA
This is where I will be posting links to all of my videos from now on. Right click and save as on the links below to download the file. Most if not all my files are encoded with DivX so if you dont have the DivX codec, please visit www.divx.com/divx for a free download.
MikeSpin.avi This is just a short video I took to show my cousin. I originally wasnt going to post it but figured why not. Nothing fancy here, no special graphics, neato scene transitions, or even a music track. Just a few demo moves... And it was about 20 degrees out so they dont even look that great --13.8MB--DivX Encoded--
spinfinal.avi My first ever poi video. Its really dark as it was my first time using the camera and such. Kinda short also but should still be a fun watch once or twice.
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buzzweave.avi Just a short tutorial on how to do a buzzsaw weave.
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DynamikDysfunktion.avi So the weather round here has been beginning to warm up. That means my poi and I are too. Tonight I brought out my poi for my first burn of the new year and this is the footage. My best vid to date but thats not really saying much. Im a bit rusty but its a small taste of things to come. Also, making his debut is my friend Stan who shows off his hair singing skills starting at 3:34 Enjoy.
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OneOfThoseBurns.avi Its starting to get hotter out and the poi arent helpin. Its about time I made a new video. Been wanting to for the past week or two now but managed to forget repeatedly. I finally was able to catch myself on film last night and got it edited in time for work Nothing too spectacular, but a few nice moves in there. Hope yall enjoy.
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FireTastesGood.avi Today I learnt to eat fire and here are the results of about a half hours practice.
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paintedbride.avi Some older footage that I finally got around to editing. Some members from the Philadelphia Fire Arts Association met at the Painted Bride Art festival to display their work. This is a short summary of the fun we had that day.
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Decomhilights.wmv This is some footage I took at the Burning Man '04 decompression party in New York featuring the death defying fire plate spinning of Mr. NYC. Please, dont ask about the music... I didnt edit this one -- 9.76MB -- WMV Encoded --
gwbhilitez.avi More footage from NY in '04. This one took place under the George Washington Bridge during some illegal psy party heh. The footage itself was taken by Skunk and its *very* shaky (note to self: do not use Skunks as tripods), but, I really like some of the stuff that can almost be seen in this vid. I was having a blast that night and decided to share my hilights!
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fireskate.mpg My first attempt at spinning fire on roller skates taken at NY Decompression '05. Also some footage of Reagan fire hooping.
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In celebration of getting a new PC capable of editing video, here are some clips from some practice sessions in late 2005/early 2006. You may remember some of these moves the animated gifs in my gallery.
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At the end of March I taught a poi workshop at Brandeis college in Massachusetts. Later, after the workshop, Chad Bennett had a little fire gathering at his new house in Salem. Blue Haired Sarah and I decided to try some Fire Breathing passes and I put on a little show for the folks as well. I had someone use my camera to film it and I'm finally getting it out on the net. Its not much of a performance, but there are a few decent tricks in here. Enjoy!
Thanks to fNi for hooking me up with the workshop gig, to Chad for hosting the jam, to Sarah for breathing with me, and to the dude (whoever you are) that worked my camera.
#273923 - 09/01/0403:03 AMRe: ICoN's Video Archive
[Re: MikeIcon]
ben-ja-men
just lost .... evil init
Registered: 12/06/03
Loc: Adelaide
u have some very nice moves in there, the only thing i would comment on is ur footwork it seems a little awkward at times i think if u improved that ur spinning would look amazing
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#273927 - 18/02/0405:26 PMRe: ICoN's Video Archive
[Re: MikeIcon]
ben-ja-men
just lost .... evil init
Registered: 12/06/03
Loc: Adelaide
that buzzsaw weave is sweet
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
#273931 - 08/03/0407:40 AMRe: ICoN's Video Archive
[Re: MikeIcon]
ben-ja-men
just lost .... evil init
Registered: 12/06/03
Loc: Adelaide
ur videos are definately becoming higher quality,the day time twirling with fire was awesome as it was really easy to see what was happening, lots of nice poi moves in there.
just a little constructive criticism (i know u want it i read ur post on poiinthepark ) as far as the editing side of things goes, firstly get a tripod, secondly its cool u have video of ur buddy twirling but putting tangles n untangles i personally wouldnt add that unless its a bloopers vid. i would have cut quite a few bits (like there are bits of just swinging circles on either side) and i would have spliced ur twirl with ur friends so that u have one set of u one of him rather than all ur sets then all his. i would also add a title n ur name on it so that ppl know whos vid it is after all uv gone to all the effort of making it u may as well let ppl know who did it.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
#273933 - 08/03/0401:52 PMRe: ICoN's Video Archive
[Re: ben-ja-men]
MikeIcon
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 27/03/03
Loc: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Quote: ur videos are definately becoming higher quality,the day time twirling with fire was awesome as it was really easy to see what was happening, lots of nice poi moves in there.
just a little constructive criticism (i know u want it i read ur post on poiinthepark ) as far as the editing side of things goes, firstly get a tripod, secondly its cool u have video of ur buddy twirling but putting tangles n untangles i personally wouldnt add that unless its a bloopers vid. i would have cut quite a few bits (like there are bits of just swinging circles on either side) and i would have spliced ur twirl with ur friends so that u have one set of u one of him rather than all ur sets then all his. i would also add a title n ur name on it so that ppl know whos vid it is after all uv gone to all the effort of making it u may as well let ppl know who did it.
I have a tripod, just didnt use it for this vid. The clip of my friend is actually mixed in with mine. He only has one clip of him doing the weave. It ends shortly after he hits himself in the head and burns his hair. I do another set right after that (the buzzsaw stuff). My original plan for the video was to add some text at certain places which is why its edited the way it is... But it was late at night when I started and I ended up not feeling like doing it. Once Im truly happy with my spinning skills on video Ill be making better quality vids. These have just been somewhat half-assed attempts to get my footage online.
And to Millenium, the song is Backdrifts by Radiohead.
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Let's turn those old bridges we crossed into ashes.
We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.
-Me
Love that fire spinning during the day in the first half of DynamikDisfunktion, added that one, and One of Those Burns to my video library as they both have some great ideas, hope you don't mind if I swipe 'em,,,the ideas that it....keep up the good work
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