Above you see nearly half an hour of raw video shot by yours truly and his lovely wife just over two weeks ago at the Winterfest Toy Show, put on by the fine folks who bring us The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, in Louisville, Kentucky.

This is something I started doing a few years ago after some requests from folks who went to toy shows. They tend to be completists, and wanted to see every second of video I shot. Being a completist myself, this struck me as a reasonable request.

When I do these “RAW” videos, I tend to wipe out the audio and replace it with music. I don’t want to pick up any stray bits of conversation that weren’t intended to be shared with the public.  This time, I forgot to ask anybody for music to use, so I just grabbed a bunch of stuff I composed over the last two decades and dropped it in, nearly randomly.  Apologies for that. Some of it is pretty atonal. A couple of the pieces are collaborations with Mel Larch and Frank Panucci, but most of it is just me.

It’s okay if you want to mute it.

You can find our other coverage of Winterfest 2025 in photo essay form HERE, last week’s music video HERE and catching up with toy designer, Greg Autore HERE.