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October 18, 2005
Flying Shovels
I spent about an hour or so looking through old CDR's the other day trying to find all of the Tigerama skits from my years at Clemson (yes, I have too much free time). For those who don't know, Tigerama is a big pep rally held the night before the homecoming game. Groups (tends to be mostly greek organizations) enter a themed-skit competition. All of the audio is pre-recorded. I wasn't much for the acting and voice work, but I did help put the audio together. I'm considering posting the audio on my website once I figure out the best way to do it. It's quite entertaining to listen to them and not cringe. Cringing comes from hearing every skit a million and a half times in the space of a couple weeks..not from the skit being bad. It's been so long since I've heard them that I don't remember every line and sound effect. This has proved to be an experiment in a) how badly organized my history of computers/cdr's is, and b) how bad my memory is (I'm not talking about RAM). I found files all over the place and it's been a pain trying to figure out which year some are..as well as if it's the tryouts or the final skit. I think I've got it all right.
Here's what I've found so far:
PSA - Tigerama 1996 Final video - The audio is real-audio-highly-condensed bad. Hopefully I can figure out a way to easily rip the sound from the video. Although I'd rather find the wav/mp3...or even cassette.
PSA - Tigerama 1997 Final - title?
PSA - Tigerama 1998 Final - title?
PSA - Tigerama 1998 tryout
PSA - Tigerama 1999 Final - Millennium Bowl
PSA - Tigerama 1999 possibly the tryout
PSA - Tigerama 2000 Final - title?
PSA - Tigerama 2000 tryout
PSA/BCM - Tigerama 2001 Final - Dukes of the ACC
PSA/BCM - Tigerama 2001 Final video- Dukes of the ACC (taken by Ben and myself with I believe 3 mavicas)
PSA/BCM - Tigerama 2001 tryout
PSA/BCM - Tigerama 2002 Final - A Clemson Carol
PSA/BCM - Tigerama 2002 tryout
In the process of writing this entry I found the '96 and '97 skits so I actually have something from every year. I find it sad that I can't remember the titles of some. I'd be more than happy to receive missing files/information/scripts. I wouldn't mind the video for all of them, but I have a feeling that means going to the VHS tapes at the center..which is 4 hours away from my computer.
mdu
On the CDR's I looked through I also found a bunch of random pictures. A few I didn't have on my computer. Others were able to replace some of the corrupted pictures I had on the computer. I'll eventually get more pictures online. I think I want to get my dorm room photos next. Unfortunately I have very few pictures because digital cameras were hard to come by then. So if I lived with you or you visited the room and you took pictures, let me know.. :)
I had an interesting trip to the airport to pick up my mother (whom just got back from a 2 week cruise in Eastern Canada) last night. Just after getting up to speed (65 is the limit) on I-526 I found a shovel barreling down the road towards me. There was a small dump truck used for landscaping hauling some sort of small earth mover that I had followed onto the interstate. I was staying a bit behind him because I didn't want another crack in my windshield from flying debris (not that I've gotten it fixed yet so I guess it wouldn't matter too much). All of the sudden a shovel just seemed to slowly rise out of the top of the truck and then quickly fell towards the road. Luckily there were no cars right next to the truck. I, as well as the two cars behind me, had to slam on our breaks not knowing where the shovel was headed, other than our general direction. Luckily it hit the pavement and flew off the road. So if anyone needs a shovel, it's probably still sitting on the side of 526 just before the bridge out of Mt Pleasant.
Posted by mhader at October 18, 2005 9:17 PM
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It's easy, the tryout skits are the ones that actually had a hint of that year's theme in them. :) Somewhere in the archives, I think I have a scaned copy of an original brainstorm sheet from 1996 or so.
Posted by: Jonathan at October 18, 2005 11:19 PM
Hmm, looks like we all have homework between now and the first weekend in November. I say let's find the videos at the Center then too.
Posted by: Jeremy at October 19, 2005 8:12 AM