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{{Infobox album
| name        = Akroness
| type        = compilation
| artist      = Various Artists
| cover       = Akroness-Album-Cover.jpg
| alt         = DVD Cover
| caption     = DVD Cover
| released    = March 2004
| recorded    = July 1999 - March 2004
| label       = [[scary!records]]
}}
'''''Akroness''''' is a collection of music, videos and artwork that was assembled from various artists to be distributed on DVD in an issue of m-80 magazine. Much of the video content was originally included in the [[Testtone 1000Hz]] collection.

==Video Listing==
# Akroness Main Menu (2:35)
# Human Beatnik (titles) (1:23)
# Metal (2:43)
# Part 1: "The Abduction" (3:17)
# Teeth (2:30)
# The Stalker (6:39)
# Never (Live @ Mama Einstein's, Cinco de Mayo 1999, Athens, Ohio) (5:56)
# Auto 2 (The Stalker Reprise) (1:44)
# Talking Head (Closing Credits) (1:43)
# (RIPE%) (1:39)
# We Call Police (2:32)
# Union & Parkwood (5:37)
# Pre-Tension: The Beat Generation (1:44)

==Video Notes==

===Akroness Main Menu===
This video was created in Flash and depicts a day in night over the Akron skyline.  The song was originally included in the [[Pleasant]] (2001) collection as the song [[Pleasant_(Song)|"Pleasant"]].

===Metal===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Metal|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===Part 1: "The Abduction"===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Part_1:_.22The_Abduction.22|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===Teeth===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Teeth|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===The Stalker===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#The_Stalker|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===Never (Live @ Mama Einstein's, Cinco de Mayo 1999, Athens, Ohio)===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Never_.28Live_.40_Mama_Einstein.27s.2C_Cinco_de_Mayo_1999.2C_Athens.2C_Ohio.29|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===Auto 2 (The Stalker Reprise)===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Auto_2_.28The_Stalker_Reprise.29|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===Talking Head (Closing Credits===
See [[Testtone_1000Hz#Talking_Head_.28Closing_Credits|Testtone 1000Hz]] (1999)

===(RIPE%)===
This video was originally produced using Final Cut Pro 3.5 at a resolution of 320x240 pixels, thus the exceptional graininess of the video.  It uses footage from [[Testtone_1000Hz#Auto_2_.28The_Stalker_Reprise.29|The Stalker]] video shoots, along with video footage from [http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Revenge-1-VHS-Various/dp/630178877X The Ultimate Revenge].  The song was originally included in the [[Pleasant]] (1999) collection.

===We Call Police===
The footage for this video was shot on a brutally hot day in June 2003 around downtown Akron, Ohio. I had recently read in the news about someone suing McDonald's because their food had made them fat, or something along those lines. So, I got it in my mind to make a video that showed people buying food at fast food restaurant drive-thru windows.  Great idea, right? I got my friend to drive around as I shot footage, but nothing really worked.  However, I did get a lot of footage of downtown Akron, so I assembled along to a song by [[wikipedia:Emperor_Penguin_(music)|Emperor Penguin]] titled "(We Call Police) Neighborhood Watch" which I'd been listening to at the time. I added some hastily rendered chroma key shots of my friend and I pretending to be the king of Akron as it passed behind us, ending with some psychedelic footage along the same lines.

===Union & Parkwood===
The song [[Union_%26_Parkwood|Union & Parkwood]] was originally included in the [[Union Point Sessions]] (2003) collection of music and has been one of my favorite songs since the day I recorded it.  The video depicts a person slowly walking south on Union Street in Akron, Ohio, crossing Perkins Street before arriving at the brown stone apartment building I lived at on the corner of Union Street and Parkwood Avenue. The footage was shot as I walked backward out of my apartment, down the steps and north on the street, thus creating the illusion of walking through a world where cars and birds fly backward. I shot the video twice, shooting it a second time once I learned how to make a gimble for my camera to keep it a bit more steady.

===Pre-Tension: The Beat Generation===
The recording for this video was first included in the collection [[The Sadness]] (1999). The video was produced in Flash.

==Music Listing==
Music by myself and friends were included as DVD menus.
# Pleasant (0degreesK)
# Cleopatra's Cooter (Small Object A)
# Spawn ([[0degreesK]])
# A Certain Indefinite Thing (The October Complex)
# [[CZA_Red_Fox|cza-&gt;Red Fox]] ([[Dextrometh|dextrometh*]])
# Casey Bales (Mark McElroy)
# [[The Poltergeist]] ([[Full Sun]])
# Back In The Day ([[White Milk Hit Squad]])
# Abnoxious (October Bolex)
# Crow's Cry ([[Dextrometh|dextrometh*]])
# Best Ghost ([[DJ Dionysus]])
# This is not a tennis match (Small Object A)
# Insomnia ([[Dextrometh|dextrometh*]])
# (Rollin' In My) Tempo '87 ([[DJ Dionysus]])
# Sucka MCs (Mark McElroy)
# Filer 1 ([[0degreesK]])
# Snow (The October Complex)
# [[Last Worlds]] ([[Full Sun]])

==Personal Thoughts==
I cannot remember how it happened, but I subscribed to a magazine called [[wikipedia:RES_(magazine)|RES]] in 2002... that is a strange thing for me to write, but I remember getting the first issue and not knowing how I'd gotten subscribed to it. Anyway, it was a cool magazine, and it came with a DVD that featured music videos and songs. At the time, I couldn't hardly afford my Netflix subscription and ANY entertainment was welcome, so I looked forward to the magazines.

It was also ''inspiring'' to me. I liked the idea of putting music, video, artwork... everything on a DVD that people could play on their standard players.  Around the same time, I learned about a guy in Akron (John Puglia) who was producing an art magazine called '''m-80''', which was packaged with a motley array of objects, including a CD compilation that a friend of his would put together. I mailed him a copy of my new [[Union Point Sessions]] and he contacted me about including it in an issue of m-80 after receiving it, but I told him I had an idea for a DVD. We got together for drinks and he liked the idea, so I began working on figuring-out what I needed to do to accomplish it.

I eventually got the hardware and pirated software I needed to make DVDs and had 125 copies of the DVD produced, but due to a burning mistake, none of them played in standard DVD players, which sometimes is just the way shit like this goes.  I ended-up producing a Flash-based DVD-ROM titled "Akroness 2" and included it in an issue of m-80, but it wasn't that effective. John stopped making m-80 shortly after that and I never got the opportunity to include a DVD in an issue, unfortunately.

All but four of the videos were originally made for the [[Testtone 1000Hz]] collection that I assembled in the Summer of 1999 in Athens, Ohio.  The DVD also included music and artwork by my friends.

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