Tgod Bio and Contact Information

Tgod is the media name for me, Mike Verba. It is short for Thundergod. It is really short for Heavy Metal Thundergod which is a name that a long time friend gave me. Although I am a metal head I also like electronic gothic Industrial music every bit as much. Pretty much anything that gets me in a mosh pit or on a dancefloor.

I never really set out to be a videographer or photographer, I just wanted to be a writer. I get out alot and go to tons of shows so one day I brought a camera with me and snapped a few pics off of my favorite band, Napalm Death, and loved the results. I built my first site out of AOL home pages and learned how to play the media game. It was basically a way to get in shows for free but I became known as 'The Pit Photographer' for my style of taking pics from within mosh pits with Fuji disposable cameras. My first gallery was actually on the wall of a program manager for a local radio station because I didn't even own a computer.

After I discovered the internet my plans of becoming a writer began to change. I hooked up with some cool sites and began writing concert and cd reviews along with pictures. I had a cool gallery on a site called Snail Of Satan from the U.K. as The Pit Photographer and started my own magazine called STOMP! which was short lived. I joined Harm Magazine and became Tgod, writing cd reviews and articles with pics of shows that I went to. I gained some popularity and started doing the same for a site called Metal Centre who also had a vast photo gallery that I could add to. My photography became quite popular. I always shot from the pit with a Fuji disposable camera because they had 1000 speed film and no matter how fast and furious the action got, I never got blurry pics with them. I continued to play the media game and made lots of friends in the publicity field for most record labels so I was always able to get passes for most any show.

I finally bought a digital camera and hooked up with VampireFreaks.com, the number one gothic site on the net and was able to get on the staff of the short lived VampireFreaks magazine. That led to me getting a spot on the VampireFreaks website doing event reviews with pics. My digital camera had video capabilities and once I started utilizing this option, still pictures just wouldn't cut it anymore. I started doing video concert reviews for VampireFreaks where I could use my writing and photgraphy skills along with video from the show. I joined Youtube and created a video channel called Tgod Television where I put full song live concert videos. I created the very first episodes titled Tgod's Travelogue, which were total video concert reviews for VampireFreaks, but I found too many egos fighting against each other there and not only left the site, but deleted everything I had ever put on the site. The other sites still have my stuff on them as far as I know. I decided I really needed a site of my own and chose a company called SiteBuildIt , who not only registers you a site but educates you on everything you need to know to build a successful site. And I mean everything. SBI is amazing. I highly recommend them.

On April 15 2011 Verbavision was born. My very own site where I can do all that I've wanted to do for so long. Verbavision.com! Home of Tgod, Tgod's Travelogue, and Tgod Television. A place to showcase my amazing archive of video that I've amassed over the years. I plan to have interactive artist pages so bands and fans both can upload stuff and add to the pages and a local section that will center on NJ artists and also be interactive. I would also like to start a network of reality shows for videographers everywhere that'll give them a place to show their stuff other than Youtube. With the help and education of Sitebuildit, I can now do anything I've always dreamed of. So sit back and watch Verbavision grow or become a part of it and help it grow. Online television will now take on a whole new meaning and Verbavision will lead the way... up... to the next level of social media communication.

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