In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes. Well I was sort of famous for 2 seconds, and even then I was anonymous. I have a very brief appearance in a Warren Miller film called Freerider. All Warren Miller films are approximately the same; a bunch of extreme skiing in exotic backcountry locations, like heli-skiing in Alaska, and some comedy bits about Winter Carnivals at ski resorts like  the Dummy Downhill at Hoodoo Ski area. I have cautiously skied some double black diamond runs at Telluride and Taos, but I am really just an intermediate skier. But I went to the World Championship Shovel Races at Angel Fire Ski Resort , which is ideal for a comedy bit in a Warren Miller film. I was hanging out at the top of the head wall at Angel Fire when one of Warren Miller's camera men asked the crowd if anyone had video production experience. I chimed in and said I made Independent Videos, so he gave me a hand held camera to film myself while a rode 30 miles a hour down the head wall on a heavy duty Ames snow shovel. Angel Fire Resort still has the video on their web site https://www.angelfireresort.com/upcoming-40th-annual-shovel-races/  I'm shown in close up from the 20-22 second marks.
So as far as the Independent Videos I made, they were all either cable access TV or work related. And by work related I mean the social scene at work at the University of New Mexico. The cable access TV videos were fake Public Service Announcements, like an anti-littering video showing a monk carrying a cross having to pick up litter along the Highway (Please don't litter. Doesn't he have it hard enough already?) For a couple years I was the local programmer in Albuquerque of a International Independent cable arts program from Ithaca, NY called Offline.

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