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Newsbleep 002: All Night Long

News­bleep 002: All Night Long

Also, view CiCi and Slid­ing Drawer also taken this weekend.

This time almost all of this was scripted or planned. Not so much a video blog as an inter­net TV show, but it’s one where I’m in con­trol of every­thing. This week­end, on Fri­day, Holli babysat CiCi, so I brought sup­per over (despite feel­ing really under the weather) and we ate and took a walk, and I took some video and pic­tures (see above and below, respec­tively). Also, on Fri­day, Dave joined Holli and I for a go of it down south. I decided to jump the Steve Irwin fan club band­wagon and make a “trib­ute” video to him. To be fair, Steve did enter­tain me, and I have noth­ing but good will towards his con­ser­va­tion and relo­ca­tion efforts, but I got a lit­tle sick of how many trib­utes to Steve there were on the inter­net (and almost every art-upload site was full of them), so I shot right back. That day, how­ever, we spent the entire day with Jenny and Molly Brass, eat­ing out, going to Tar­get (I bought the spe­cial edi­tion of Nar­nia and sham­poo), and finally we went to their house for sup­per and some home videos. A good week­end. Then I spent the rest of it edit­ing this thing while Holli felt con­flict­ingly more and more proud and more and more annoyed that I was ignor­ing her for my Mac­Book once again. I’m sorry, baby! I love you!

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MilesRausch.com News­bleep 002: All Night Long

at least one per­son liked the News­bleep, so I’m doing it again

Firstly. Night Stalker

Thanks, M-train. And good evening to all you wannabe News­bleep­ers. I’m here, in the field, on loca­tion, right here in my apart­ment. The same apart­ment that you see in the open­ing ani­ma­tion. I am sit­ting mere feet from the very table at which I broad­casted the orig­i­nal News­bleep, #001, in 2006. I know!

But I’m not here to rehash old (bleep)s. I’m here to inves­ti­ga­to­ri­ally jour­nal­ize the amaz­ing night life of Madi­son, SD. One of the amaz­ing fea­tures of my Mac­Book is the iSight cam­era, built right into the lid. It’s this same cam­era that I’m using right now, and that comes with time lapse capabilities.

My first exper­i­ment with this fea­ture mate­ri­al­ized in the form of a music video for a Radio­head song. See the show notes for a link. It wasn’t any­thing spec­tac­u­lar, but it cap­tured the imag­i­na­tion of the nation. My sec­ond exper­i­ment was of myself a few nights ago. I wanted to see what it looks like when I sleep. I’ve never been able to watch myself sleep despite my numer­ous sleep/mirror inven­tions and exper­i­men­ta­tion with LSD. Also, I’ve been a sleep dancer ever since I was an infant, when my mother played Elton John to get me to sleep. I’m sorry to every­one who’s had to endure that, but I wanted to see just what moves I really have. But the footage was too dark, so I deleted it.

(crick­ets)

What makes this exper­i­ment worth it is that I live above the only traf­fic light in Madi­son, ergo the busiest inter­sec­tion in town, which nearly guar­an­tees good footage. Now, it’s very nearly 11pm. I’m going to set this up, and, always the devoted reporter, I’m going stay up all night long, watch­ing along with you.

(time­lapse and shots of me sleeping)

So there you have it. Madi­son is a town of freaks who come out at night to feed on the dreams of the liv­ing, turn­ing the streets dark-red with night­mar­ish blood-lust. Any­way, back to you, M-train.

Sec­ondly, Ghost Stalker

Thanks, M-ego (amigo). Over two years ago, the News­bleep offices received an unmarked pack­age in the mail. We nat­u­rally thought it was sars, and we beat the pack­age until it was unrec­og­niz­able. After calm­ing down and smok­ing a joint or two, we inspected it to find this spec­tac­u­lar home video. Take a look.

The video shows what appears to be a misty-like ghostly appari­tion dis­si­pat­ing into the win­dow. Nat­u­rally, we thought noth­ing of it, until the stu­dio moved into the very apart­ment where the video was taken.

So they did call the land­lord, but the story he had was nei­ther con­vinc­ing, nor worth film­ing. So noth­ing hap­pened until we located the author of the orig­i­nal video, and the story he gave us was much more better.

A fas­ci­nat­ing story with humor­ous com­men­tary. Thank you, Miles. And we we turn to our final story of the evening. Some of you may have heard that Steve Irwin, a man who’s enthu­si­asm for the ugli­est, dan­ger­ous­est crea­tures on earth has hor­ri­fied and enter­tained the world for years, passed away while play­ing with fish or some­thing. News­bleep, always one to jump on the band­wagon, presents this “In Memorium”.

Lastly, Steve Irwin Stalkers

Reporter: Thanks Vit­a­min ‘M’. I’m dri­ving down South Dakota High­way 19, head­ing towards what APPEARS to be the city of Sioux Falls. In the vehi­cle with me are David Rausch and Holli Gregg, two self-proclaimed Major Steve-Nerd Irwinites.

This In Mem­o­rium cel­e­brates the life of famed South Amer­i­can Actor/Comedian Steve Irwin who coined the famous phrase “Crickey, dat croc done ’bout took me arm off!”

Mon­tage of driving.

Turns music off, “Hey guys, story time. Name 10 to 15 of your favorite Steve Irwin moments. Dave, go.”

More dri­ving. Make it up. Eat at Chile’s to cel­e­brate his South Amer­i­can her­itage. Tie-in to bring­ing Jenny Brass her shirt back.

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All pho­tos from this week­end can be found in CiCi — 8 Sept 06 and The Brass House — 9 Sept 06