| Mind Odyssey is an old project that's only recently had a chance to be shown anywhere. Produced back in 1990, it was my first foray into any kind of production. I was working as a volunteer at a Community Access Channel when I asked if I could borrow a video camera. With some creative ideas from myself and my older brother Mind Odyssey was born.
The premise is a simple one: Two music videos flanking a couple of comedy skits. The music videos are merely an experiment in photography, video recording and editing. They don't tell any specific story. I consider them art for the eyes and perhaps the mind. Hence the title of the whole program being called Mind Odyssey. The edits were made on a JVC VCR that had some artistic functionality and allowed for an audio track to be recorded without having to rerecord the video.
The two skits consist of a story about a recursive man and a TV ad about a fictional cable network called "The Violence Channel".
The end product is roughly 25 minutes long. It was strictly intended as an experimental program that initially was to air on the same station where I worked as a volunteer. It never came to fruition.
Additional editing for the program was made by Shokus Video in Los Angeles three years after the initial completion. They mainly worked on the transitional sequences between the skits and the music videos.
The complete show is too long/large to upload as one file on MySpace, so it has been split up into installments. In case you're interested the viewing order is:
1. Opening Credits
2. Elegia (music video)
3. Recursive Man (w/The Violence Channel commercial)
4. Robot Dance (music video)
5. Closing Credits
"Robot Dance" actually split the recursive man skit, but in order to make the individual videos make some sort of sense on here, I spliced the video out and kept Recursive Man intact with the Violence Channel ad being the only thing that splits it up.
Enjoy. | 
