Calculus Airband 2000

So a week ago, CheyBoyAhDi IMed me asking if I still had the airband videos somewhere. I scratched my head. For a very long time, they were were stored on my hard drive, but I was pretty sure I backed up them a year or two ago when I needed disk space. Disk space may be cheap nowadays, but during college, cheap still didn’t cut it.

Anyway, I said I would get back to him and began searching through my spindles and spindles of CDs and DVDs and I finally found it. It was labeled AirBand 2000.

For those who are unfamiliar with the term airband, it’s this traditional thing (well not anymore since Kimura has retired) that every Calculus class did for our Christmas party. I believe ours was called Winter Jamboree, but I could be confused between my junior year and my senior year. Yes, I went through two years of this, but unfortunately, I don’t have any records of my junior year. I won’t bore you with our propaganda about getting ‘5’s and being committed, but it was basically dancing in tune with cuts of random music of our choice. Although it may not look that great, it did take a lot of time and we had a lot of fun. I’ve decided to upload everything that I have online: Calculus Airband 2000.

I had burnt everyone in BC a copy of the performances on a CD, but there were extra stuff which I didn’t include such as the photos, the practice videos, and the slideshow. Back then I don’t think DVD burners were even out yet and only a select few had CD burners.

Each available video has too versions. Original encoded at 640×480 and small is re-encoded at 320×240. Video streams I believe were taken from AMonkeyJ’s camcorder. We originally had 2 (one shooting from each side), but I forget why, but the other one had malfunctioned pretty much at the beginning. The re-encodes were made after complaints of “long” download times and I don’t blame them. The performance videos are about 200MB each. The small versions are about 100MB each. If the streaming isn’t working for you, underneath each video is a Download movie link, which you can right click and “save link as”.

Performances: (original / small)

AB Period 0:

AB Period 4:

AB Period 5:

AB Period 6:

BC:

When rewatching these, it was rather embarrassing. SueOn agreed and said they might’ve been better buried in my stacks of CDs and DVDs. However, if I don’t post them now, they’ll probably be lost forever.

The practice video is stitched together with scenes during class and during our airband practice. But for some reason, there was no audio track associated to these videos, and I no longer have any idea who has the source to these. Therefore, I just tacked on our airband music and looped it. I was thinking of syncing it with relative music and random voice tracks, but that project would be probably left for another day and time somewhere in the far far future. Be warned, this video is 1.5hrs long and the original encode is over 1GB.

Then there’s the our famous ending slideshow. When I was rewatching our performance video, I was like, where the heck did we get that projector. I don’t recall the school having one. After asking SueOn, apparently it was his church and it all came back to me.

Here’s the original mp3 of our airband song:
Calculus_BC_Airband_2000_Song.mp3

And finally some random photos taken during our airband practices: Calculus BC Airband Photos

Did I mention how embarrassed I am about rewatching these videos?

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