I built a guitar

BY Michael Poliskey
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 is an intro to guitar building I would say. I e...
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Blair Witch Sticks for Halloween

BY Michael Poliskey
Movies, Video

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, "Hey, I can make the Blair Witch Stickman. I have...
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Gibson Mod Shop Explorer

BY Michael Poliskey
Guitar

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 Gibson Mod Shop. Gibson is one of the biggest names in guitars, and has been si...
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Got My Drone License

BY Michael Poliskey
Video

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 all of the options my Mavic 2 Pro has. I tried...
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I Have Been Copied!

BY Michael Poliskey
Video

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. [video ytvideo="EHU2Hui-HMU"] Then here ...
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Move Me Video

BY Michael Poliskey
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. Buying books, learning, researching, building...
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Peaks to Portland

BY Michael Poliskey
Video

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. The YMCA team was setting up the all that goes ...
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Agile Maine Day

BY Michael Poliskey
Photography

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 in the mail yet, but I would have some time to g...
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