EDITOR'S NOTE: Unfortunately, like Dashiell says, this video has been a technical nightmare for us. I'm not sure why or how but what should've taken a couple of hours to shoot and edit turned into 10 hours of disaster. Yay! As you noticed, it's still not on our website, but it is on YouTube, so, check it out there.
NOTE: It's fixed! It's now on our website too. Yay.
Now on to Dashiell's blog:
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Mint and Tahko's First Vlog - Day Spa!
Mint and Tahko are back and doing original material, and they're looking for you to give them suggestions on what to do next. In their very first "Mint's Mint Condition Web Video Blog Original Content Web Video Blog" or just "Day Spa" for short, they cover a variety of Genres from Reggae to the Blues.
Check it out right here, under "Episodes" or on YouTube, where as usual we ask for your love support and precise motor control to click and type our way into a 5 star rating and a vast sea of comments the likes the web has never seen.
Thanks everyone for watching and remember, if you like what you see, send in your suggestions and comments, Mint and Tahko are more then willing to make your musical and lyrical dreams come true (sometimes both).
-Dashiell
P.S. on a side note this weekend was interesting for a variety of reasons:
A. My right arms looks like someone took a cheese grater to it, Justin's does too, but to a slightly lesser degree. This is why you don't grind your arm against concrete with a short sleeve shirt on, but hey, these are the sacrifices you make when you're making an independent online sitcom right?
B. At one point during the shoot on saturday where Justin and I were horribly mutilated (See A.), we also had to halt the production due to Bee attack. Surprisingly Bee attacks plague 90% of film productions, this is important information for all you independent's out there. Here's a helpful tip for the future, don't chose a location where you have to jump repeatedly onto the ground when the location isn't so much ground as it is a Bee's nest/hive (do Bee's normally make Hives on the ground? I thought they were of the hanging variety...). This is generally not a good idea and usually leads to most takes ending with "Oh god! Bees!"
C. Don't ever, ever take shortcuts in filmmaking. Thinking "nah, we don't need to use our fancy highly priced camera, we can just use a laptop camera, it's supposed to look like a webcam right?" is probably one of the worst things you can do, as it could very possibly lead to you staying up till 4AM trying to edit something that should have been finished about 8 hours ago, slowly diminishing your will to live.
D. If you do decide to take shortcuts, be prepared to be mocked by the forces that be. For example, hypothetically, if you were to use a crappy laptop camera that made your editing night into a nightmare, when you go out to dinner, you'd most likely be witness to a scene such as the following. Two girls holding a very phallic balloon screaming at you to come into the bar because "there are like really hot girls in bikini's taking jello shots and it's soooo fun!!!" (I think it might be mandatory for drunk sorority-ish girls to speak with a minimum of three exclamation marks). This leaves you forced to reply with "Um... sorry, we have to edit", slowly diminishing your will to live.
Anyhoo, lesson learned!