Oh my god

The interview footage on the archive.org site is not meant to be “finished”, properly edited footage; that already ended up in the BBS documentary, which took Jeff/Milky’s interview, along with 200 others (250 hours) and culled it down to about 330 minutes in 8 episodes.

Having finished that project (the documentary), I have begun the process of making all the interview footage I shot available, for free, on the archive.org website, so it might have additional use/information in the future.

Regarding the specific style of the interview, I am sorry you decided after 5 minutes how the 3 hour interview went, but in the case of Milky and Liz, I chose a specific conversational style with them in the beginning, helping them remember events and items from over a decade ago, and then, later, giving them the open-ended questions you endorse.

The interviews (this one included) were intended to be about bulletin board systems, and in the time of this interview, I was not sure how technical or not technical we would be getting in the final work, so we go into technical information quite a bit throughout all of the 200 interviews.

This was not a memorial to Jeff. This was not meant to be a “best of” showing him answering a set of specific/open-ended questions about his work in Infiltration; this was a collection of questions for a documentary about Bulletin Board Systems and stuff that got in outside of that subject were a bonus.

This is, looking at it another way, about 2 and a half hours of Jeff recorded, talking, laughing, interacting with his girlfriend (later his wife), and being himself, which has a different set of value to the people watching it.

You should consider culling some choice excerpts from the interview (and no, your interview questions are not what I have in mind as “choice” excerpts), so it isn’t entirely wasted.

Jim Munroe says: “The editor of the zine Infiltration (the zine about going places you’re not supposed to go) and the guy who coined the term “urban exploration” has self-published a how-to book being launched next week. Like his zine, it’s a very wel…

I have a bunch of old YiP zines laying in a box somewhere which I’m going to dig up. I remember they couldn’t print too many because it got expensive. I was fortunate enough to get a chance to say hello to him earlier in August, and told him that his urban oases site inspired me.

My deepest condolances to the family, my prayers are with you in these tough times.