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Day 30 & 31 – Back to Los Angeles
We got up early (aided in part by Daylight Savings time giving us an extra hour of rest) and shot two videos in New Mexico – one more of an action piece, and another one that’ll kind of/sort of be a sequel to Chrono Trigger. The former features a ridiculous alien costume (we are in New Mexico, after all), the latter features an idea we had for Chrono Trigger that we never did.
After shooting both videos, we decided to stay in New Mexico for one more night before heading out back towards LA the next day. Normally this is a whole day affair, and with three drivers switching off, it shouldn’t be too difficult a drive.
We drove through the Navajo nation, through Arizona returning again to the land of three dollar gas and prepay only. Thanks once again to Twitter, we scheduled a dinner meet up in Phoenix – the last of our trip. This one we did at a Dave & Busters, which is basically Chuck E Cheese’s minus the animatronics, and with a ticket redemption area with more household appliances as prizes. Once again, a great number of people showed up – originally the manager tucked us away into a back party room, taking a moment to pull us all aside and stress that we could only have 24 people in there, and that we would be not allowed to take any video. By the time everyone showed up, we had to bring in chairs and tables from outside.
Dave and Busters is great mostly because of Skeeball, an amusement that, much like pinball, is something I wish I was a whole lot better at, and something that I really enjoy despite being so objectively horrible at it. I basically got schooled in every arcade game there is to be schooled at (especially air hockey, but then again I lost to someone who had an air hockey table in her house growing up. If that doesn’t necessitate a handicap, I don’t know what does).
After losing massively to just about everyone, we gathered our tickets and redeemed a couple handfuls of the cheapest item in the place – tiny plastic frisbees that don’t really fly farther than about 4 feet. One impromptu signing session and group photo later, and we said goodbye to Pheonix and headed back into Los Angeles (another seven hours). Because I wasn’t feeling so hot, I slept for most of it, and awoke to find ourselves staring once again down our weathered and industrial street, right where we began.
The road trip might be over, but we have a lot of videos that we shot and are still working on (a lot of the more VFX heavy ones, for example, require our rigs be large, fast, and not bouncing around the American interstate system). Keep an eye out in the next couple of months, as we’ll be interspersing our awesome road trip videos with the ones we come up with on the fly.
First, and CRAP ITS OVER!!! you skipped maryland
he skipped Idaho too..
and ohio
ESPICIALLY ohio
Yeah! i was in cincy and was like FFFUUUU! SO CLOSE!
Yeah! C’mon! Maryland completely missed you! I know so many film locations! Abandoned warehouses, massive forests, Mill ruins, caves, and more! It would have been awesome!
I’m glad yall made it home safe and sound. I will be on the lookout for your new videos.
thanks guys!
That was cool, Fwomg! I enjoyed reading about and watching your videos on the road trip. Here’s hoping the bad guy situation gets out of hand again, so you’ll have to take another hiatus from L.A.
Can’t wait for the videos!!!
Thanks again for having the road trip and seeing your fans! It was awesome getting the opportunity to meet you when you stopped in Atlanta. Can’t wait to see what you guys put up next!
Haha, Freddie is just jealous of her air hockey skills… Though Matt promptly cheated in the rematch.
Cool guys. Look forward to seeing what you put out, fresh inspiration for me.