{"id":1091,"date":"2008-12-22T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/22\/blasts-from-the-past\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:20:00","slug":"blasts-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/12\/22\/blasts-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasts From the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the summer of 1991 (after I graduated high school), I hooked up a VHS VCR to a monaural VHS camcorder with flying erase head and manually edited together a music video using footage from my home-taped episodes of the first four seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/span>. The song was “Kiss the Girl” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid<\/span>, and the subject of the video was the sexual tension between Captain Picard and Doctor Crusher. My friends have enjoyed watching it, and I’ve now uploaded it to YouTube for strangers to enjoy, too:<\/p>\n

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Please note that I did all the video editing by hand<\/span>, without the benefit of time codes. The VCR did have a jog dial (thank you, Sony), but it still took a hell of a long time to sync everything. Did I mention that I actually dubbed the song from a cassette tape of the Little Mermaid<\/span> soundtrack album, because the sound mix from the movie itself was too noisy, and I just wanted the music? I’m not sure which was worse–matching Data’s “la-la-la” mouth movements* (1:03) or the tadpoles jumping over Sebastian’s head (1:48).<\/p>\n

And no, I really didn’t have a life. Thanks for asking.<\/p>\n

The next summer, I went back and made more TNG music videos–for Worf<\/a>, Troi<\/a>, Riker<\/a>, and Data<\/a>. And now you can watch them all on YouTube<\/a>! That playlist also includes a sixth “bonus track”–a music video I threw together, years later, of scenes from The Abyss: Special Edition<\/span> set to “Under Pressure.” Check ’em out if you’re so inclined, and please rate and comment.<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n

* Lifted from his ridiculously long password in “Brothers.”<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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