Povert

Been working all day (and now night) on the Flapping Crane DVD. Here’s the thing: we shot over 4.5 hours worth of material. We want to put everything on DVD (except Skate Justice, the master of which is lost and I don’t much care) and we want to do commentary. The problem is that unless I find someone quick who is a wiz at DVD Studio Pro (or similar), this is gonna be a freakin’ four DVD set.

It really only should be a two DVD set. So if you know anyone, let me know. Soon.

Anyway, I’m kind of inspired to do this because late November will mark 5 years since flappingcrane.com went live. To put that in perspective, Youtube did not exist then. I was still in my mid-twenties, and people still referred to me as “El Conquistador” (not true at all).

Granted, we’ve slowed down our pace in the past couple years, but we’ve still got skits in the works. Eventually I’ll edit X-Lax 2000, Lazy Time Traveller, etc. There’s talk of a new Reicher. And, to top it off, we plan to relaunch flappingcrane.com this year. A big-ass new design that will probably piss people off, much higher-quality (near DVD-quality) versions of every skit and even some new skits (secret hint: one involves a squirrel).

So it’s kind of a fun time. We’re doing the disc 1 commentaries this Friday.

I’ll probably start putting up unreleased material in the coming months. Some of it is pretty good. Two songs of note which I may link to: “Professor Willoughby” and “Half-Jew in Love”.

Look! A new skit!

Dog vs. Kitty.

Shot with my new Kodak Zi6. Probably not the best showcase of the camera. I was pretty sloppy with it. I was really just going for the joke.

That said, this is technically the first FC skit shot in HD. Or at least in HD resolution. The vid on the site, of course, is not HD. Subscribe to the feed in iTunes or whatever to get it in HD.

It’s probably been about a year since we shot it, but Swiffer is finally finished and on the site.

Watch it.

Why did it take so long? Because I’m both anal and lazy. Tragic combination. Also, it’s only been relatively recently that I got my editing computer up and going again since the move. Insert other interesting and compelling excuses here.

Our bizarre take on Teen Wolf is finally out. It only took a year and a half.

This skit turned out quite different from the original idea.

We’ve got skits lined up for the next few weeks. It’s like it’s 2005 all over again.