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The Final Bang (on YouTube now)
You may have already seen this one but if you haven’t, here it is. Perhaps you’re wanting to know the backstory with the helicopter shot? Okay then. But maybe you should watch first before I blow your mind? Okay go watch while I sit here admiring myself in this rusty butter knife.
Back so soon?
So Erik and Ben were going up in a helicopter and I was supposed to stand on the top of the dimple hill and they’d get an awesome shot of the roof with me on it, waving. So I get this call from them saying they’re about to go up and that I should go up on the roof in about ten minutes and I say “you’ll call me to let me know when you’re shooting the roof though right?” except I don’t get all that out because they have to go and their phones are being confiscated and just wave at all helicopters. So I haul my toned and shapely caboose up there and there happen to be a lot of people setting up and there are some drums on teh top of the dimple hill as well but I explain that I have to go up there and wave at helicopters. I offer to soundcheck their drums but they don’t take me up on it and also they want to make sure I’m not “drunk or anything” WHICH I WASN’T, I’m just clumsyish and kind of lost at most times. So I’m up there looking in the sky and one of the guys explains that I don’t have to look, I’ll just hear the helicopter. This was probably right and it’s good he said taht because every time i craned my neck to look at the sky I started to get dizzy and worried I’d take a tumble down dimple mountain, taking out a snare drum and a drummer and possibly a guitar on my way. There was also a guitar up there. So then I developed a dog like sense of hearing, or whatever animal has crazy good hearing, and lurched at all loud noises and waved like a maniac at planes and various things flying by including a flock of birds. Finally after about half an hour I gave up and went downstairs. Erik and Ben told me they didn’t see me up there but then they didn’t see much of the roof either.
The next day they were goign to go up to the observation deck of the Empire State Building and film me on the roof that way so that it would look like it was from a helicopter. “Is the human eye so good that people know roughly what helicopter shots shoudl look like?” I asked. Ben assured me it would work, however he misunderstood my question. I wasn’t asking if people would be able to tell the difference between a helicopter shot and an Empire State Building shot. I was asking if we really need to go up to the Empire State Building for this shot, can’t we just hold the camera above our heads and shake it and pretend that was from a helicopter with some kind of phenomenal zoom function. I’m kind of glad he didn’t understand my question though, as this is why I’m in front of the camera and on a blog and not behind a camera, etc. So again I hauled ass up to the roof with my microphone and waited while explaining to the guys what was going on and worrying they would think I think I’m being filmed but really the whole thing is in my head since I’m saying I’m going to be filmed by peopel on the Empire STate Building and that’s why I have to wave at no one.
But it was goign to take an hour and a half to get to the observation deck, so we scrapped that and filmed what you saw, instead.
Also, by this point my throat and my interviewing style was a little raw.
Closing night video up on MINIspace
I think there might be one more coming, too. http://minispace.com/en_us/projects/mini-rooftop-nyc/videos/
same videos, new, um, post about them
So I put up this blog post on The Activity Pit and then I was thinking maybe I should repost it here but then I was thinking that I already put these videos here but then I was like but there’s slightly more commentary in this post and then I was all but only like a sentence or so and then I was like but I don’t know and then I’m all sure why not, you know? So here it is:
Hey fancy feet! (That’s you. I decided your feet are fancy. Just go with it.) For the last couple weeks I was stationed on a rooftop covering the MINI rooftop NYC event. We made a series of videos which I think are fun, but then I have a very high opinion of myself.
Anyway, if you want to see them, they’re here:
http://minispace.com/en_us/projects/mini-rooftop-nyc/videos/
But wait, here are a few of my favorites which are on YouTube. Guided tour? Sure, why not.
In this first one I made a mockery of India and exercise and for that I’m vaguely sorry.
And then in this one, some stuff happened.
And I like this one too but I can’t remember why:
Oh and this one too!
Patrick the contest winner
I think I may have gotten a little carried away with the ding…
Okay so it wasn’t yoga I was doing that day
The Masala Bhangra video is up. (Thanks to Joe for tipping me off!) It’s not on YouTube yet or I’d post it here but you can see it at http://www.minispace.com/en_us/projects/mini-rooftop-nyc/
And in case you are wondering, up until about fifteen minutes before I left the house I was planning on wearing regular exercise clothes because, as I lamented in a previous post, I didn’t have access to sweatbands or funny clothes. But then I saw that V Magazine t-shirt I’d been given as a party favor the night before and I ripped the neckband off, Flashdance-style but I was too overzealous in the ripping. On a lark I safety pinned it and then turned the sleeve excess into wristbands. I tied my bathrobe sash around my forehead as I do every morning. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m not only a phenomenal dancer but a burgeoning designer as well.
See all the MINIspace videos here: http://www.minispace.com/en_us/projects/mini-rooftop-nyc/videos/
Goodbye rooftop!
Today’s the first day I’m not on the rooftop! I think I have rooftop legs. Anyway, here’s a photo from last night with the MINIspace team. I don’t even believe in teams since there’s no “I” in them, but I had fun for these past ten days and more videos will be posted in the coming week so check back, won’t you?
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