Forgotten Domains 5: Critical Duck

We're sliding toward home on Forgotten Domains Week, where I review domains I own but have forgotten over the years. This time we're going to work...

DAY FIVE: CRITICALDUCK.COM

I was an early fan of digital video back in the days when "digital video" meant you needed a $3000 digitizing card, a high-end Mac, and a "massive" hard disk array with a pricey high-speed SCSI interface. Even then, the results were unpredictable and problematic. Skipped video frames and audio-sync issues were the norm, not the exception. Of course, now even a $500 Mac Mini can easily edit video with no additional hardware, and then burn a DVD of the project once you're done (assuming you have a SuperDrive).

Anyway, sometime between then and now, when the DV format was just starting to make things half-way affordable, a friend and I decided to invest in an expensive DV camera and start a video production company. He would shoot the footage, and I would edit it and design the visuals. In order to get some practice, I shot some tape of a rubber duck to edit with. That footage set the tone for the company, and gave us a name...

Off-and-on for two years, we made instructional videos, promotional videos, educational videos, and even a music video! But it never ended up being enough income to quit our day-jobs, and eventually we wanted out. So we sold the camera, he took the software, I took the name, and it was over.

I still love digital video, and every once in a while I find myself wanting to get back into the game. Maybe one day Critical Duck will ride again?

Comments

ah so *that's* where the Artificial Duck Co came from!??! :)

Posted by kazza on January 13, 2005

   

Good guess, but nope! You'll find out about ArtificialDuck.com tomorrow on FORGOTTEN DOMAINS, PART 6!! Bwah ha ha haaaahh!

Posted by Dave2 on January 13, 2005

   

My, is that froth on your lip Dave?

;)

Posted by Ben on January 14, 2005

   

Critical Duck - are you quackers!

Posted by The Ref, LGC, England on January 14, 2005

   

To force my deep psychological problems on a poor innocent duck is hardly fair to the duck!

Posted by Dave2 on January 14, 2005

   

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