I'm not sure I've heard anyone complain about being up on a weekday at 8 am as much as Jin.
This morning Shaun and Jin came over at, yes, 8 am to make a short video. You see (deep breath, because I'm not sure there is a good explanation for this) on Tuesday Ze Frank used an intro that had been submitted by the MSU improv group Lab Rats. He issued them an assignment to film some short form improv with what we used to call a "tower of suggestions" -- "OK, so you're in Disneyworld and you're scouting for a major league pitcher, in the style of a soap opera, and one of you has bad breath." Shaun decided that we should take those suggestions and turn in a video, too.
So we stood on my back porch in the early morning cold and... did not improvise very well.
And then I uploaded the video in a format that Ze Frank's Gallery doesn't understand (MP4! It's very standard!) and so no one could watch our video unless they downloaded it and changed the extension from _mp4 to .mp4. Which is very unlikely.
Anyway, the Lab Rats did their video, too.
kary
We decided to discuss it beforehand because we didn't know if we could pull off a 30 sec scene. So ours isn't exactly improv. We had an idea of what we wanted to do and ran with it.
I uploaded our intro and power move in mp4 format and ran into the same problem you did. One of our members converted them to .mov, re-uploaded and the intro got picked up the next day.
-kr (lab rats webmaster)
Jin
In all fairness, being up and at your place at 8am involved actually BEING up at something ridiculous, like 7:30am.
Owen
No, that wasnt us on the Ole Miss campus. We go to Mississippi State.
Fuzzy Gerdes
Who said anything about Ole Miss?
Fuzzy Gerdes
Oh, I see. Someone commented on the Lab Rats blog post that I've linked to, asking if the Lab Rats were from Ole Miss. The formatting on that post makes it look like the trackback to FuzzyCo is part of their message. It's not. Diana Barry Blythe has nothing to do with FuzzyCo.
Owen
Sorry about that, guys. I am not familiar with the comment format of our new website. Thanks for pointing out my error :-).
Again, I apologize, but keep coming back to labratscomedy.com!
--Owen