HOW many again????

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:55 am

Four years ago, a metalhead two weeks shy of his 21st birthday put the finishing touches on a purported music video and wondered, "Is this all there is to AMV?"

Four years and 100 videos later, the answer is in, definitely: "No, not by a long shot". In that span there were highlights and lowlights, videos that won awards and videos that were deliberately made to disturb and antagonize people, long songs and short ones, animes for adults and animes for juveniles, videos shamelessly seeking audiences and videos that cannot even be distributed, much less shown in public. There was a lot of everything, but mostly and most prominently a lot of True Heavy Fucking Metal -- because he was not some pro, with pro kit and dreams of getting paid for this, but merely a bassist with a capture card.......though by the end he was in a foreign land with neither bass nor capture card, but that's kind of immaterial.

In the end, he completed 100 videos, which goes to show that any bozo with sufficient dedication and spare time can do the same. And should they actually do so, they would also have license to do a ridiculously navel-gazing self-tribute as their 100th video.

SH100: Looking Back, Looking Suspicious
music: "Amazing Grace" performed by the Dropkick Murphys
anime: everything ever used in a SH video plus Dogtato-kun
format: xvid/mp3 (34 MB)
downloads: local and direct

The method on this was simple: take 1-2 cuts from the distribution version of every SH video, place them in linear order, and finish off the rest of the runtime with Dogtato-kun. Getting cuts that (a) worked with competely different music and (b) would establish flow despite being forced into linear order, that was the "effort" part. Well, that and making the early videos not look like total crap.

This is probably the only video like this that will ever appear from SH; the next really significant odometer milestone is impossibly far-off, and natural flux in pace means that any further 100-video marks reached will probably not coincide with studio launch anniversaries. You can breathe easier; this is not going to be a US-elections-scale quadrennial abomination.

--K

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Sat May 21, 2005 3:04 am

Congratulations Kai for 4 years of cool music and good videos. I hope there'll be another 100 videos

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Somehow the idea of the video was really cool I enjoyed the summary of your videohistory. btw. I never noticed how many Senteced videos you made.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Sat May 21, 2005 10:52 am

Well done, and here's to 100 more!

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:15 pm

Congratulations. I think you're the second person to hit 100 videos.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:00 pm

Congrats. Shame about te disturbing lack of ops though.

Kalium wrote:Well done, and here's to 100 more!

He'l probably do that before I reach 10.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Sat May 21, 2005 1:49 pm

Hey, thanks for the comments, all; it's good to know that this video is even watchable by people other than me.

Warheart wrote:I never noticed how many Senteced videos you made.

Official score: Kai: 8, rest of .org: 0. You'd really think someone would have addressed this by now.

Flint wrote: I think you're the second person to hit 100 videos.

Maybe fourth; I know Ari is over 100, and I think AMV_4000 is as well, plus there was this guy from way back in the day who claimed to have done 200+ videos on 2 VCRs, with an average allocation of "a full" 2-4 hours per video. It's still a fairly small circle.

bum wrote:Shame about te disturbing lack of ops though.

Eh, it is what it is. Most of my stuff was not online for a long time, and it's hard for people to think they have something relevant to say about a video that's been done for 2+ years, especially when the creator has gone and done another 20-30 vids since. I'm not losing any sleep over it.

--K

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:05 pm

Nice one, Kai. Congrats on all the vids - original vids, no less. You'll always hold that special place on my HD for being the first one to use Kogepan. Cheers.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:53 pm

Congrats on 100!

I hope to reach that before retirement..

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat May 21, 2005 3:20 pm

Kai Stromler wrote:
Flint wrote: I think you're the second person to hit 100 videos.
Maybe fourth; I know Ari is over 100, and I think AMV_4000 is as well, plus there was this guy from way back in the day who claimed to have done 200+ videos on 2 VCRs, with an average allocation of "a full" 2-4 hours per video. It's still a fairly small circle.

Yeah, I've been following you and Ari. I thought you were going to hit 100 first, honestly. But according to the search, AMV_4000 has 57 videos.

Needless to say, I admire you for pimping out the metal. \m/