User:Missle43

Missle43, also known by his alias Uzzi, is a YouTube Director, Web designer, Administrator, modder, rapper, and music producer from Long Island, New York who has over 3.4 million confirmed views to his videos. He has uploaded 48 videos as of September 13th, 2008. Most of them are original content, although some have been edited or uploaded with the appropriate copyright information and permissions. He has also made contributions to the Halo Modding scene.

History
Missle43 began his career as a web designer/Administrator in 2005 when he created Uzzi Mods, an Xbox Modification web site, which quickly became known as a place to share ideas, media, tutorials, and files among Xbox modders and players.



Missle43 quickly gained a following on the Xbox Modding scene when he released Missle43's Soft Modding Package (v 1.0) including his own Soft Mod Installer and a descriptive tutorial. A video tutorial was soon created after he was bombarded with questions in the Uzzi Mods XBConnect server. The video was released to Uzzi Mods members originally, but eventually was uploaded to Missle43's YouTube page more than 2 years later.

Uzzi Mods was eventually moved from it's primitive Geocities hosted site to a domain with a forum being the most popular section of the site. He also owned part of a server hosted by XboxDB. After having Uzzi Mods repeatedly defaced and hacked by rival Xbox Mod sites, Missle43 decided to revamp Uzzi Mods with a new layout, themed for the Xbox 360 and released the new version of Uzzi Mods on March 6th, 2007 to coincide with the date being 3/6/07. He also changed his username from Missle43 to Uzzi. Almost all of the active users from previous Uzzi Mods sites and forums re-registered on the new site. By this point in time Missle43 was known throughout the Xbox Modding scene for being the owner of Uzzi Mods and for having one of the most consistent XBConnect servers allowing players to play with his "fun mods" and became well known among the XBC community.

After the third time Uzzi Mods was hacked into in August 2007, Missle43 started to make the majority of his YouTube videos. In August of 2007, he made his most popular video to date. "The Simpsons Crank Dat Soulja Boy" music video was made with the hit song Crank Dat by Soulja Boy, using video clips from The Simpsons Movie. The video has amassed more than 3 million views as of September 2008. On July 31, 2008 Missle43 uploaded a high quality version of the video with the correct aspect ratio and higher definition.

On August 25, 2008 Missle43 released another music video, this time using the classic rap song C.R.E.A.M. by the Wu Tang Clan to scenes acted out in the Xbox 360 game Saints Row. Although the video was viewed more than 100 times in it's first day, the video has been a failure compared to previous video productions.

On November 30th Missle43 started releasing his videos under the YouTube name UzziHD. According to his old YouTube page, his account is currently suspended for an unknown amount of time. Although speculation among underground IRC channels claim that his 'Missle43' account is suspended for a year for an unknown reason. Missle43, now officially known as Uzzi, has currently released 12 videos on the new UzziHD YouTube channel. The channel claims that: "All of my videos are available in high quality and all of the videos I film myself are available in 720p High Definition, the clearest videos on YouTube."

This is yet to be proven, although all of his videos offer the High Definition viewing option.

Other Projects
Uzzi has created a new web site, informing visitors of his current projects, and also giving "shout outs" to all of the people who have contributed to Uzzi Mods, the Xbox modding scene, and the hacking scene.