I can’t believe this was ever on television.

Straight from the LLR video vault are two weird, little videos I made a few years back with my partner-in-crime, Melinda. Back in the day, photographers at KPTV were occasionally charged with creating a two minute video that the credits would play over at the end of teach Sunday newscast. I gotta tell you: I made some weird credits pieces, man. I had dancing action figures, creepy Halloween costume skits, and one segment where Hasser just drank a Diet Coke in front of the camera for two whole minutes to “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Of course, none of segments these were ever questioned, especially since another photog was allowed to show raw hamburger meat being cooked or (and I’m not making this up) a shaved cat licking someone’s nipple ring for two solid minutes. Ahh, the golden days of TV news!

Anyway, here’s two of my favorite credits pieces I did - both involving a full cast of Star Trek: Voyager collector’s dolls, that I’m now ashamed to admit I actually owned. Melinda and I were inspired to shoot this after the station lobby was “toy bombed” just before the annual Toys For Tots toy drive, and later we shot a sequel when Voyager was cancelled. We were a UPN affiliate at the time, so it made more sense back then. The credits pieces eventually ended, for they were completely erratic and probably didn’t really help our Nielsen meter strategy. At least I have these little holiday gems to fondly look back upon.

I’d also like to point out this that was years before Robot Chicken.