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"Super looper" lightning in our backyard - an actual still frame from an HD video clip.
*A famous line from the movie "Devil's Advocate" - yeah, it's pretty much at the very end of the movie. Now a pro, and still excellent? Well, I am now a pro, but still don't claim to be. At least not with ego.
Who's shooting who?
Okay, so now you know a little more...
A small part of my data center. The Internet still offers many opportunities... Even though I refuse to write code, build web sites or even try to get others to understand the idiosyncrasies of the NET, I still find it very amusing at how so many people rely sooooo heavily on the components that it offers. Email would be the worst of them all. We can blame that on the Monty Python's "Spam". Ok, so that is not where today's spam comes from. I however would rather focus on the more positive side of the NET. It is a great vehicle to disseminate information and content of all types. Hence, my new quest is to (try) to entertain, amuse and inspire others to get creative too... One of my pet projects... Royalty Free Stock Footage. If you think about the days of Napster (early days with lawsuits), it is not unbelievable that this again will happen with video. With the advent of YouTube, and all the other video sites, it is already showing it's nasty copyright infringement side. So I will soon (hopefully) deliver a solution that I hope will help all the crazy, wacky, serious, funny, amateur and pro video producers to acquire, in an inexpensive way, such footage, graphics, sounds, music and more. Stay tuned. FF (Fast Forward) - man what was I thinking? It's already here! When I wrote that line up above here, it was not. Freaky. Now it is all here already. Cool. Hint: VISIT POND5.COM (P.S. clicking this link will not only open a new window, but a whole new way of thinking about being creative in video too!) Now for the vitals...
Yeah, that's me.  Why the name VaderVideo? well let's just start from the beginning. Many years ago when the internet was just really getting started, a friend of mine told me about this new thing called, well, the internet. He took me on a quick tour, showed me some pages, at which time the most exciting one happened to be www.timex.com. Unfortunately that site really no longer exists today. But it was the first site to show motion graphics, or what was called an animated gif. In any case, AOL was off to a good start and hence, I decided to sign up.  Of course the ever painful question came up while signing up, "What do you want to use as a user name?" - hey this was a tough one. I pondered on that one, took a nap, while Star Wars was playing on the tube. I suppose there was some subconscious reaction at this point. Hence, I became the very first Vader on AOL. Of course everyone thought I was either very evil or their father. But the "handle" stuck with me and still is my predominant name in several industries. By definition though, vader means "father" in dutch. So over time, I suppose the name/handle just stuck with me. So if you are wondering, no, I do not have a helmet, I do not breath heavily, but I am a father for sure. On a side note; it is a great ice breaker though. I do need to point out however, "Darth Tator", does have a home in my office. |
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I think some of my stuff is pretty neat. And from what I hear from others, they agree. I have shot weddings, promos and even a music video here and there. I believe video editing to be an extremely fun task, as it really lets you get creative. It opens up a whole new world of illogic. The old adage of "a picture paints a thousand words" only tells half the story. I believe that "moving pictures" draw out thousands of emotions and stills draw out the imagination. So much for my theories. 
But I figured it wouldn't hurt to make you read it. After all it is such a well thought out set of words. But really, having found this multimedia experience so much more fun than programming code (which I did for almost 15 years) it gave me a new perspective on many things. I was definitely burned out and needed a new avenue of creativity. One with no limits. Designing software and web sites just became too blah blah unless it was for myself. Besides, there are plenty of programmers and webmasters out there. The world does not need another one. Besides, I keep in touch by being a host master and actually still run an ISP (hosting only) of my own. Need some hosting? Call me. 
I am a married man (sorry ladies, but if you can't resist, just don't tell anybody.) born in '59 overseas (Switzerland), with 3 kids, well actually 2 now as the oldest is off and serving in the USAF. We relocated a few years ago (Dec 2006) from CA to AZ and love it. Let's just say the cost of living is a bit easier to swallow here. What more do you want to know? Write me. (vader@vadervideo.com) - I deliberately will make you copy and paste this if you want to email me. Remember that thing I said about spam? 