Week 2: Happy Holidays
I remember posting this video right before Christmas break our freshman year. We had a few days of good flurries and this one evening of heavy snow. It’s sort of an understood tradition at Virginia Tech that at the first snow, all the freshman in the dorms on campus head down to the drillfield to battle the Corp of Cadets in a massive snowball fight. The Corp of Cadets try to do their best real American warrior bit, but in the end the sheer number of freshman pouring out of the dorms is enough to eliminate any chance of CoC success. There are some shots of this snowball fight, but they don’t really do it justice. I also remember someone taking off the door to someone’s mini-fridge, and using that as a sled down the steps on campus. Funny how innovative we can be with stuff like that. Watching this now, I realize how unimpressive our infatuation with bush diving really was, but it was something crazy and fun to us regardless. I think I enjoy movies we made like this one, because we basically just ran around with a camera filming a fun evening together. The stuff may look rather pointless and silly, but we weren’t aiming for Hollywood stuntman appeal or even Jackass type material. Just a few friends documenting their carefree collegiate times, and loving every minute of it. :)
Week 1: Milk & Cereal
We might as well start with this one as people have been asking what the hell happened to it. I’d write the full story on this one, but it has been so long I would hope most people know the history by now. Someone created a Wikipedia stub for us a while back so try that if not! :)
What’s Going On
Okay, so that last post might have been a bit cheesy, but it was freaking American cheese baby! If you haven’t noticed, we have moved VTsFinest to the awesome Tumblr blogging platform. We intend to put up a new video every week from the glory days as well as some other fun stuff we had and WILL put together! Enjoy! :)
A Quick Word
VT’sFinest.com was originally founded in August/September 2003 by a few enterprising freshman attending Virginia Tech. The main purpose of the site was to entertain people all over the world through a variety of mediums including video, audio, image, and text. Over these students’ college careers from dorm rooms to apartments, VT’sFinest was able to expand its reach and visitor base from a few hundred visitors a month to over a million. Their videos were played and enjoyed by a global audience, some receiving media attention from national news publications, booming web portals, and regional radio syndications. As the college years went by, the founders found themselves with increasingly busier schedules and workloads, and thus a vast amount of effort and attention was pulled from maintaining their once thriving homegrown website. A year and a half had gone by since graduation, and the once close knit crew was now scattered across the country, all off on their own journeys into the working world. One afternoon, the two founders were able to reminisce on their collegiate years and the good times VT’sFinest was able to provide for them. They decided to resurrect the now-dormant website, and bring back the videos, images, and words that once entertained so many. That afternoon was today, and this is that resurrection…
