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I launched a project on Kickstarter.com this week to help fund a music video I am shooting for “Catastrophic Neon Rainbow”. My friend Mark and his 13 year old daughter Casey have been writing music together and I offered to shoot a video for their song “I Had a Bird”. ‘

As of this post we have met and exceeded our goal to raise $400. We could definitely use a few more bucks to help pay for some additional materials (and food!). If you want to help out and get an awesome award check out the project here!

A few years ago a 24 spoof I created was pulled down from YouTube due to copyright infringement. One of my oldest video was pulled down last month by Warner Music Group due to audio copyright infringement. The video entitled “Stevie G” depicts an unusual moustached fellow (played by myself) taking a stroll to the supermarket set to the 80′s ZZ-Top hit Sharp Dressed Man. Fortunately YouTube now offers “Audio Swap” which lets you swap out the audio with one of their approved music tracks. Unfortunately for Stevie G this really changes the vibe.

Original Video:

New Video:

Excerpted from email from YouTube:

“…A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Stevie G. The audio content identified in your video is Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue…”

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG.”