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COMING UP ROSES (by Brian Ray) (2008)

I had watched a concert DVD of Paul McCartney's ("Back In The U.S.A") and was really impressed with his whole band. I did some research and discovered that the two guitarists in his band had solo albums, which I bought and really liked. I ended up emailing one of the guitarists (Brian Ray) stating that if he wanted a video done for one of his songs I would love to make one. I was happily surprised when he wrote back and agreed. With his input and about six weeks of work, we put together "Coming Up Roses", which Brian was very pleased with. It had been on my YouTube channel with over 30,000 views, but because of YouTube being very strict about copyright issues, I decided to take it off of my channel and just let Brian have the video for his own YouTube channel. In this video I play George Bush, and my wife and I play a couple of other well known politicians also. You can watch the video here.


Sometimes a video turns out much different than planned, especially when I end up hurting myself, and therefor making the video much funnier than it would have been. Here is a prime example.

I have been a big fan of the rock band Sparks since 1974. The first album of theirs I ever bought was their third album, "Kimono My House". One of the members of the band was bassist Martin Gordon. As the years went by I ended up getting to know Martin online a bit and ended up doing a video for him for his version of the song "Captain of the Pinafore", from his album "God's On His Lunchbreak (Please Call Back)."

This video was on my Canadian Studmuffin channel, but due to the possibility of future copyright issues, I decided to take it off and recently sent it to Martin Gordon to put on his YouTube channel (HugoPortion). It is one of the first times I did green screen work, which happily has improved a bit since then, but it is still a pretty fun little video and of course my character Gus, gets a starring role, along with my wife, and a lobster...

I am not sure if this really is the longest video on YouTube or not, as I have heard rumors of longer ones, but those seem to incorporate a blank screen. It sure has gotten attention though, with over 373,000 views in the past year. Of course the people commenting on the video take it way too seriously and complain about the video quality being really bad, which it is. The reason the quality sucks is because with the low resolution it only took me 4 hours to upload the video. If the video was in high quality, it would still probably be uploading... From reading the many comments, it seems that some people have actually watched the whole video in one sitting. They are either very patient people or stupid as hell.

I never thought when I did this video that it would become so popular (with over 178,000 views) While far from my best work, the reaction to it has been overwhelming and not in a good way. A lot of the comments were "fake!" and so forth. I guess it does not help when I say sarcastically at the start of the video that "there are no special FX" in the video, when obviously there are.
This video was also bought off me for a TV show/website hosted by Martin Mull, in which they examine if videos are for real or not. Even they did not realize it was all a joke. When people would comment "there is no shadow on the car!" I would usually reply "that is because there are no shadows in Canada."

Some of them probably believed me...

You will enjoy reading the various comments far more than the video:

This is one of the first videos I ever did. It was for a simple looped song my wife composed. As you will see, the character I play is sort of like my YouTube character Gus (who I had not yet created...)

Once again, I got a lot of flack for this video, as most of the people who left comments were notmy subscribers, but people who did a (serious) search for a weird looking fish. This video has had over58,000 views. The weird looking fish in this video happens to be me...but most people did not seem to appreciate I had wasted their time with the slow build up. Enjoy reading the comments!

This video does not need much explaining. I had promised my subscribers in November that if I reached 5000 subscribers by the end of 2009 that I would eat a tablespoon of cat food in a video. I reached 5000 on December 1st...and so
it was time to eat crow (or cat food...)

I think the best part of this video (besides the slow motion part at the end...) is when I ask my wife Deb what flavor the cat food was and she told me it was tuna. Once I heard that, I figured the cat food might not taste that bad.

Boy, was I wrong...

Along with edbassmaster, Paul Telner is my favorite YouTube comedian and we have become friends in the lastcouple of years. I first met Paul at a YouTube convention in Toronto in the summer of 2008. This is the second
time I met him, when my wife Deb and I drove to his hometown of Ottawa for the day. (He also visited us at our home with hisfilm crew along with his director (and another friend of mine) Jason. This (rather shocking) footage will be in an upcoming video of Paul's, so I suggest you subscribe to his channel so you don't miss it later on this year.

Anyway, this video is about having lunch with Paul and how it got slightly out of hand. Paul loves to push buttons and especiallyget on the nerves of his manager Byron Pascoe. It was great fun watching them argue!

My character "Phil McCracken" is fairly popular on YouTube and this is one of his earlier videos. As you willsee I was still working on his voice (which would end up in a much higher frequency later on...) Once again, ifyou read the comments for this video, you will notice that some people think Phil is for real (and not very goodat beatboxing or whatever the hell he is doing.)

I think this is one of my funniest videos and it is all ad libbed (as most of mine are...) Phil might have skills, but it sure is not beatboxing...

Our young cat Jinx has always been a nervous cat and even if she walks by you and you move yourfoot, she will sometimes jump a foot in the air. I figured this would make for a great video and so I set up a small remote controlled car and Jinx jumped really good (twice...) and once again,it's always much cooler and funnier in slow motion:

Over time I became fairlygood at video effects, and this is one of my earlier videos (actually recorded in 2006) in which the effects are kind of cool. This is a well known song performed by the punk band Techno Star Rebels, who let me
use it to make a video and this is the result:

Not all of my videos are comedy, as I occasionally like to do something serious, and this is one of them. I had asked a fellow YouTuber (Timothy Wyatt) if he could make a song out of my lyrics for my poem "Torment" and this is the result:

This is a video I did to promote my website (which was called gravetimes.com at the time.) Since the Janet Jackson "nipple slip"was still in the news, I decided to do a sort of joke about it, having no idea that the title would make this video my most viewedvideo of all time (over one million views as of July 2010) This proved to me that what title you give your video is important.

This is one of the oldest videos on my YouTube page now and it actually had a lot of views (over 100,000) on another channel, but I asked the person to take the video off, as he had not credited me (the video did not link to my channel...)
As usual, a lot of people took this video seriously and a lot of the videos are very negative, but very entertaining to read. I guess it is this video which inspired me to create "Phil McCracken", a guitarist who thinks he is an excellent teacher, even though he can't play for the life of him...

This is a newer video and it almost was not released. I had finished one version of the video but decided to discard it and start from scratch. I quickly whipped together a new character. Even the namecame just before filming (Manny Morgan Mitchell the third)

I usually ad lib in my videos but this time there was a bit of a script for each section. I did not think it was that great a video but I uploaded it anyway and was very surpised whenalmost everyone really liked the video and I had more than one comment that the characterwas great. It just goes to show you that you never really know what will be a "hit"...and I guess Manny will make another appearance some day.

I get asked quite often how I come up with my video ideas and this is a prime example of the way I work.We have a small 8' by 6' "recording booth" in our basement, which is packed away in a small closet when notin use, although it can be partially used even in the closet. I passed by the closet one day and I instantly thought"that would make for a fairly funny commercial"... and a new video was born.

My one cat Ernie has appeared in quite a few of my videos. What is cool about Ernie is he seemsto know he is being filmed. His subtle expressions seem to just fit in perfectly with whatever I am doing, as in this rather silly video. Ernie truly is the star of the videos he is in.