These are some ungraded stills from our first shoot. We had a treatment fall through the day before shooting and we ended up writing, testing and shooting this over a weekend. We had a bunch of ridiculously attractive swedish kids at our disposal. Perhaps we were intimidated by their model-esque statures and clean skin, however, we took them outside in the freezing cold temperatures (about minus 2) and made them convulse cold milk all over themselves. Thank you to frey + lovisa for providing armpits for warmth and phone credit.
We begin this video sale now. We're in Gothenburg, Sweden. A friend of a friend (who's now our friend) is this guy: David Borkmann. He makes tunes in his spare time from med school. We had some beers a few nights ago with him and naturally ended up getting into a wrestle. While his girth amasses to the two of us combined, we somehow managed to slip him an elbow to the face resulting in an epic nose bleed. So, our debt to him will now be re-paid with this video.
We haven't just been wrestling though. While in Turkey we met a man in a bar who was playing Dallas Green covers. He then played a credible cover of 'Fake Plastic Trees' and we knew we should speak to him. His name is Orkun and we had a çay with the guy, shared some seesha then realised he was a massive fan of two of our favourite bands: Alexis and Refused. He told us he had some of his own tracks - we told him we had a camera - so we took him out on the street and this is what happened:
Technically I guess this counts as our first video. Or at least 0.5. We now have under a week to write a treatment for David and shoot the video before we fly out to Iceland. So we best stop this procrastination.
The sound isn't great as Orkun didn't have this song recorded yet, so we had to swallow our technical pride and resort to using an in-camera mic.
Bye from the Bearded Maricon and Josh.
A note from Josh:
I must make special mention here to pay my respects to my Peruvian headband that was tragically lost a few nights ago. I have worn that guy literally everyday for an entire year now. My fringe will forever curl in mourning.
We are two Australian lads geared up with laptops and an EOS 7d camera ready to exchange music videos for shelter in Europe. Our rates? We work for free. Any spare change you have to put into the production will improve the final piece but is not required. This blog will service as our video catalogue + diary. = = = If interested in partaking in our little experiment, then please use the contact below.
Coop: recently checked his soul in and subjected himself to some of the worst jobs imaginable. He has confirmed his wariness of the bullshit involved in the pursuit of capital gain and has nobly elected with this journey, to reclaim his soul and become a bum, before embarking on an arts degree at the Australian National University, which he understands will only further his status as a ‘bum’.
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Josh: is currently studying film at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. He has since been corrupted by the assumption that glasses are cool, weakening any grip he once had on reality. He's now attempting to reclaim his rightful place at the top of the rainbow, hence this experiment. His trip will be funded by the Australian Government’s student welfare system. Thankyou taxpayers.
