Talk about a kick to the ego. These are some of my first projects out of college. I plan on keeping these around to remind me where I was when I started, especially when evaluating job candidates.

These were made as part of a loop for an arcade machine called the GATE. We had hooked up a webcam, mouse trackball and a keyboard to a computer in a custom cabinet. The idea was that you could play new computer games with people in arcades around the world. You could hear them and watch them in little windows around the game you were playing.

This was back in 98-00, way before YouTube, podcasts and ventrillo. It was pretty amazing that we could squeeze 8 videos through a tiny pipe along with game data. Alas, noone told the owner, an old exec from Atari, that arcades were dead in America.

He should have put it in Japan.

The Passion of the Wenckus from Michael Sigler on Vimeo.

I tricked my friends into thinking they would have to help me move. Little did they know that we had hired movers the week before. Instead of hauling heavy stuff we pretended to be rock gods.