When we were in middle school, Robert Durff and I started a video production company called Visions Productions. (Well, actually, it was not so simple -- the ownership of the Visions name was in dispute among a number of kids in our class, as the company had started with Robert and Michael and a few other kids.) Between the rise of YouTube and my academic work among a number of people who focus on youth media production, I've been thinking about Visions lately... so I decided to digitize some of our old videos and get 'em up online.

Might as well put them on YouTube; people tell me that means they own the content, but hell, this isn't making us any money anyway, and it won't for them either. And Glyph and co. are already freaking out about the server space my site takes without me adding more videos. And I haven't added enough to the crapflood of the Internet lately.

I started out by editing the commercials as if they were actually going to be aired, but then the anthropologist side of me kicked in and wanted everyone to see how much worse of a flaming asshole I used to be. And as someone who has recently been ruminating on the norming of race, class, and gender with the use of media texts, it is verrry verrry interesting to hear some of the things my little prep school friends and I said between cuts. So aside from the Froderin video, I'm not going to edit the rest. The other two up online now are Ditz Bits and Madame Zola, featuring Jessica Durff and Lindsay Feldmeth as well as Robert and myself.

Hopefully all this will cause Robert to come out of the woodwork. BERT WHERE ARE YOU! WE MISS YOU!