This is one of two internet ads I made for ARCUS, for the 2005 Annual Meeting. This 2:04 minute version went up on the homepage for several months leading up to the meeting in May. I used the µ-Ziq's track 'Jason' from his album 'Lunatic Harness'. I probably shouldn't have, but the song worked so well and I just couldn't take it out. Plus it's a non-profit scientist thing, with a very limited scientist audience.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

ARCUS Arctic Forum 2005 v1

ARCUS Arctic Forum 2005 v2

This is version two of two ads I made for ARCUS, for the 2005 Annual Meeting. This is the shorter version. It also is edited to a different song and is quite a bit different. The track is by Plaid called 'Marry' from their album Spokes. and it is also fairly scandalous that I used it. This version never went up on the website though as far as I know. The longer version was probably more effective anyway.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

Showdown 2003

This ad was made for the 2003 Showdown at the Top of the World tournament. I just recycled the same footage I used in the 2002 ad (which was shot at the 2001 event). This time I hyperactively edited the footage to a track by DJ Mowgly (aka Alec Empire). I had to add new titles and stuff too. The stills for these basketball ads look pretty boring; the editing is the fun part of these ads.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

Showdown 2002

I made this ad for the 2002 Showdown at the Top of the World basketball tournament that takes place annually in downtown Fairbanks. I used some footage shot from the previous year and edited it to a short segment of a track by Bit Meddler called 'Shitmix2000'. It worked pretty well. However, one day Planet-Mu will track me down and kill me. It was only when me and Zeb made ads (and maybe Ben and Chris too) did such rad music play on the televisions for the people of Fairbanks.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

Box Office Video - 777

This was the last of the goofy ads I made for the local Fairbanks movie rental chain, Box Office Video. Actually this ad isn't that goofy, except that it is sort of dumb, and has tin can audio. Anyway, it never aired, but maybe it should have, I mean, where are you now Box Office Video? Huh huh? They all turned into Movie Gallerys, which is a pretty sucky chain from what I can tell. RIP BOV. Thanks anyway Mark, you did a quality job looking excited about BOV's new 777 deal. Oh yes, I used yet another Planet-Mu artist's track, 'Capitol Beat Sticky (Posh Mix)' by Capitol K.

Cast & Crew: Mark Holmes, Joed Polly.

Box Office Video - Crouching Tiger

I made this ad to pitch to Box Office Video after they bothered to air my Box Club ad the previous summer. I thought for sure they'd find it amusing, but they didn't I guess, and it never aired. This ad was a parody on the very popular movie at the time, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, which is about ninjas having a dream and also fighting on top of leaves or something. I basically did this in Attack of the Killer Blankets style, only this time we shot in an aspen woodland off of Chena Ridge in Fairbanks. I found out later that the whole time we were filming, the neighbors, the Loftus family, were watching us out their window, astounded by our foolery.

Cast & Crew: Jenny Regitano, Chris Taylor, Cyrus, Joed Polly.

Box Office Video - Crouching Tiger - Bloopers

This isn't an ad obviously, but it's a must-see if you bother to watch the Crouching Tiger ad. This is the blooper and behind the scenes footage that shooting a ridiculous ninja ad can bring about, complete with tongue flicking sound effects!

Cast & Crew: Jenny Regitano, Chris Taylor, Cyrus, Joed Polly.

Box Office Video - Box Club

So here's the Box Office Video ad I made that actually made it onto the TV. Well, there were others too, but they were A) boring and B) in long lost Beta SP land, never to be retrieved, where hundreds of other mostly boring ads I made are (but better quality footage). Anyway, this ad is fairly amusing. I grabbed Scott, Abe, Mike, and Mark and we snuck into a utility room at UAF and quickly shot the first half of this ad before anyone asked what we were doing. It's a parody of Fight Club of course.

Cast & Crew: Scott Ledbetter, Mark Holmes, Mike Chevchek, Abe Julig, Joed Polly.

Novus - Penguin

This ad was made for the local Novus branches. It's about a flying penguin that smashes into a car windshield. Me and Scott made this ad (and the Box Club ad) when he was learning to make ads for Doney Advertising, to take my place when I went to college shortly after. When we were brainstorming he said, "well it's just a matter of what breaks the window" for an ad for a window fixing place. So true Scott, so true. So I brought a penguin puppet and penguin stuffed animal (yes two separate penguin actors) and Keith brought his Honda and we threw this goofy thing together. Note how the window crack is computer generated (by me). Scott made both songs used.

Cast & Crew: Scott Ledbetter, Keith Hutchison, Joed Polly.

Atomic Video Games

I didn't actually make this ad, I'm just the actor kid. Zeb did the editing and Ben did the shooting with his XL-1. The ad was the first television ad for Ben's video game store, Atomic Video Games. It was shot at Ben and Zeb's apartment they had at the time. I think the ad was actually shot in the spring of 2000, but it didn't get edited and go on the air until around November.

Cast & Crew: Ben Wade, Zeb Polly, Joed Polly.

Miller Time Ski-doo Giveaway 2

I didn't make this ad either. This was all Zeb. I'm just hosting it, as well as a couple other of his ads because they are either amusing or rad and/or good. And they aren't on his website. In this ad Zeb decided to go for ULTIMATE VIOLENCE since it's good for the whole family. Even though the ad made it's debut after midnight, during Jerry Springer, the barrage of angry phone calls to FOX7 got the ad pulled after just three airings. At first it was just a few calls, and then over fifty, but what really did it was when the angry viewers called the sponsors of the event, whom then called the owner of the station. Zeb, how dare you corrupt the sanctity of a Jerry Springer show?

Cast & Crew: Zeb Polly.

Miller Time Ski-doo Giveaway 1

Another Zeb ad. This was the first Big Time Miller Time Ski-doo Giveaway ad (or at least the first one that was somehow cool). Local Fairbanks radio and tv celebrities / comedians Jerry and Glenner star in this ad shot by Ben Grossmann. Zeb did all the sweet editing. This one aired many times due to it not being extremely violent (see above). It also won the 1998 Alaska Broadcasters Association Goldie Award for best commercial production under $1000.

Cast & Crew: Jerry Evans, Glenner Anderson, Ben Grossmann, Zeb Polly.

Northern Lights Travel

Back to an ad I made. I forget how this all came about, but basically I had Heather read a script that Tracy (of Doney Advertising) wrote and then I put it to a µ-Ziq song with silly almost-animations that look like they were made by a nine year old. I often enslaved Heather this way. For a Santa Claus House ad she volunteered to dress as an elf. During one of her classes her and her friends whipped up a sweet elf costume out of green and yellow construction paper. I wish I still had a copy of that ad! This ad however was for a travel agency, and it advertises sort of outlandish travel arrangements (climb Mt. McKinley? Really?)

Cast & Crew: Heather Mease. Joed Polly.

Blue Loon - Zeb and Ben's 21st B-day

I'll end with another ad by Zeb. This ad was made for him and Ben Grossmann's 21st birthday party at the Blue Loon bar in Ester, Alaska. They are good pals with the owner of the Blue Loon, Adam Wool, since they always made his ads, so they got to have a joint b-day party there. They also got to air this ad a decent number of times due to their television station hook-ups (they worked there). This ad is all about the sweet editing to the music. Check out Zeb, he looks like an alien with those alien goggles.

Cast & Crew: Ben Grossmann, Zeb Polly.

ARCUS Arctic Forum 2006

Here is the 2006 internet ad I made for ARCUS, for the 2006 Annual Meeting. The ad follows the ARCUS video style I have created, using audio/video clips, still photos, and a little bit of "in-the-field" video. I think this one came out pretty good. I used Ulrich Schnauss' excellent song, 'Gone Forever' from the album 'A Strangely Isolated Place'.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

ARCUS Arctic Forum 2007

This is the 2007 internet ad I made for ARCUS, for the 2007 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Hopefully it excited the arctic scientists attending the meeting, or maybe even got a couple more to attend, or got some to watch the live video stream from the comfort of their home or office. I once again used µ-Ziq's track 'Jason' from his album 'Lunatic Harness'.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.

ARCUS Arctic Forum 2008

Here is the 2008 internet ad I made for ARCUS, for the 2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Like the other ARCUS ads on this page, it was posted on the ARCUS homepage to advertise the meeting. I actually got a couple emails from arctic scientists, saying what a good video it was. I felt it was pretty similar to the previous years, but it was certainly nice to hear it was the "best one yet". I think it might have worked too -- we had 60 people watching our live stream of the meeting. And again, I used µ-Ziq's track 'Jason' from his album 'Lunatic Harness'.

Cast & Crew: Joed Polly.