Author: Michael Poliskey

Michael Poliskey lives in Portland, Maine with Laura and Georgia where he plays guitar, makes videos and builds websites.

I built a guitar

My new partscaster

I built a guitar, and I'm thrilled about it. I'm not ready to call myself a luthier yet, for I didn't build this from scratch. I bought a bunch of parts then, drilled, painted and soldered everything together. People call these 'partscasters', which

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Blair Witch Sticks for Halloween

Blair Witch Sticks

When I first saw The Blair Witch Project, I lived in a cabin in the woods. That made walking into the house at night in a full sprint. Blair Witch wasn't going to get me! Me living in the woods, and being a fan of the movie, led me to the idea of, "H

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Gibson Mod Shop Explorer

rainbow Green Gibson Explorer

I love guitars. I'm constantly looking online just to see what's available on the used market. I'm not always in a buying mood, but I do like to window shop! Even more so over the last few months when I discovered the Continue reading

Got My Drone License

Mavic 2 Pro

I finally got my Part 107 license, which makes me an official Commercial UAV Pilot. I got the license in October, but am finally writing about it because the weather is getting better and I've been finally practicing flying around and getting used to

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I Have Been Copied!

One of my favorite videos I've made to date was 'emulated' by someone on YouTube and I'm flattered. Someone posted the link in my comments, so I checked out the video.  Same style, same music...awesome. Here is my version. [vi

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Move Me Video

I have decided to launch Move Me, a video production and motion graphics company here in Portland, Maine. Professionally I have been building website for the last 17 or so years. I had one html class my senior year in college and when went from there

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Peaks to Portland

Peaks to Portland

I didn't swim it. I dropped off Laura early at the Casco Bay Terminals for the ferry ride to Peaks Island so instead of going home and coming back hours later to look for parking, I decided to go to the East End Beach early and walk around a bit.

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Agile Maine Day

Agile Maine

I was fortunate enough to be offered the opportunity to be the official photographer of Agile Maine Day at The Abromson Center on the campus of the University of Southern Maine last week. When I was first asked, my new Canon 80D hadn’t even arrived

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Conference Promos

Two recent promotional videos for the Women@Work conference to be held in November of 2017 in Las Vegas. The color palette and design elements were borrowed from the print campaign for the event. Both videos were created using Adobe Premiere and Afte

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My Trip to Kiesel Guitars

Kiesel Guitars is a 71 year old custom guitar shop out of Escondido, California that used to be known as Carvin Guitars. About 2 years ago they changed their name back to the original family name after splitting the Carvin Corporation into 2 differen

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