This piece was made for cable television. People are always flipping through the channels and between ESPN and the Oxygen network they stumble across... 3 men on a couch getting drunk on Hamm's beer and singing along with trucker country. Strangely they are entertained. They watch longer to see if anything else will happen, nothing does. Genius.

FOIL 1998

At one point we had covered all the surfaces in my apartment with tin foil. Anyway my landlord made me take it down when he was showing the place, so I wadded it up it to a ball and left it in my kitchen. One night I realized I had some video project due the next day so I picked up my roommates 1980’s VHS-C camera. Put some colored lights on this ball of tin foil and walked around it for 10 minutes. Bam! College B+. Hazza for “art!”

PUDDING 1998

One day it was assumed it was a good idea to fill my bathtub with pudding so we could sit in it naked. Large quantities of bulk budding were purchased and the tub was filled. Well the police came (for an unrelated matter) and that ended that dream. Come the next morning we still had a tub of Pudding so we taped the pudding getting washed down the drain and put some swing music over the top of it. I may have turned this one in for a class also.

ALL STAR SKATE SPECTACULAR 1999

Our goal here was to make a skate video, but it turned into parity. This features all the “extreme” music and quick editing one might expect in a real skateboard video. But it features people riding skateboards straight, and sometimes turning. The only person who could actually skateboard was fueled on some 40’s the day of shooting so that resulted I some fiery crashes. There is some sketch comedy in this thing also.

UNTITLED 1999

This piece is a genre we like to call “fictional documentary.” We basically got some funding to do a documentary so we rented a bear suit and drove my Plymouth Reliant to Las Vegas. I had some idea of what I wanted to accomplish (not really) but it all changed when we had to drive to St. Louis to pick up a cameraman, then my “crew” got food poisoning from a diner in Topeka. We spent a lot of money and shot a lot of footage out of car windows.

PRESS VIDEO (Amish Armada)2000

This is just a 10-minute glimpse in to the twisted world of the Amish Armada. It’s a conglomeration of live concert footage, interviews and some candid behind the scenes moments. These are the most intense people I have ever worked with. However, I was surprised to discover they are actually quite nice and excellent conversationalists, when they aren’t trying to kill you and eat your brains! Check bands page for more info, yo.

LETHARGIC YOUTH 2000-2003

“The joke is our own lives.” Proof that other people’s pain is funny as hell. Lethargic Youth will actually be a two-part offensive sketch variety show, featuring music videos by the Amish Armada & River City Gun Sluts. Much of the humor comes from the writers deep deep crippling depression and stagnation. L.Y. is currently in the editing phase.