hot dog eating contest

Had a funny techie nightmare recently when my film was slightly out of sync. Then it looked like some of my footage somehow came in as "drop," "non-drop," "drop,"  "non-drop" frame footage. What the hell? A capturing glitch. That's enough to drive any human being nuts. (And making notes to yourself isn't enough - it's definitely better to communicate with others.) I started lining everything up on my own instead of by the book - who cares how the film looks, let's go back to the compressed copy.

Just kidding. Heh heh. Yes, filmmakers, I have very basic techy fears and am conquering them just now.

My friend Micah said it best: "Isn't filmmaking a ball of fun?" (irony)

Yulien and I went to the annual Competitive Eating event at Coney Island - otherwise known as Nathan's Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest. It was funny watching everyone grab for those hot dogs. After tying, Kobayashi lost on a 5-dog breaker to Joey Chestnut (I actually didn't tell Yulien that secretly, I was rooting for Chestnut. Kobayashi's won too many times).

I was curious about who writes the commentary for these events b/c the announcer was pretty funny. He rose up ominously on this blue podium kind of like Mr. Octopus does on his tentacles in Spider Man, and made these serious announcements about the contestants: "Born in Northern China, so-and-so gave up a career in science to become the Queen of Tamales" (you can see that skinny Asian girl in the second video below). Competing against the Master of Tiramisu and the King of Asparagus, of course.

Here's some youtubes of the event:


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLykYTD_OP0

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