Author: flipper01

28 Days video, done

So we’re off to buy some trendy hats and jeans that look like dad’s worn them to paint the kitchen ceiling – that’s right folks, we’ve directed a music video, so we’re cool now. We shot it ages ago, since then we sodded off to the states, and editing the beast took a lot longer than we’d though, but here it is, all done, and in glorious HD (well, Vimeo HD, which is kind of glorious).

Should Boob Beard?

So… The Boob grew a hot and sexy beard while we were away in the States, which he then cruelly stole away from us with a few swipes of a razor. His reasoning for this was some crap about it being uncomfortable or some shit, which of course is a small price to pay for looking hotter than a mince pie fresh from the microwave on boxing day. Now he doesn’t seem to believe me that the hotness is worth the discomfort so he needs your help. That’s right folks, you can play a part in shaping the Boob, for behold; I have prepared a simple online petition for you to express your opinion on this burning issue (of course with it being a petition and not a vote you can only record a pro-beard comment, but hey ho, that’s the right choice anyway). So for the love of Boob and all that is holy, SIGN THE PETITION (please).

Flippers @ Home


So, Hallybones got an invite to the Playstation Home Beta and we didn’t. He sent us a video of him enjoying his empty Home Apartment. It was late, we were tired and very jet lagged (we’re back in the UK now), so I built a quick Snorri Cam out of a boom mike pole, a big hook I found in the garden and some wire, and attached my mobile phone to it. We then made this film to send him of us enjoying our Home. I know, like I say, we were tired.

The Thing?

Yesterday we witnessed ‘The Thing?’ just ouside of Pheonix, we can’t tell you exactly what it is, because that would make it a something rather than a thing. We met up with a guy called Jerry Bone who runs the place wearing a white cowboy hat (which is rock solid and apparently how “decent sixty dollar” hats are supposed to be, unlike my $2.99 floppy straw version I got from a gas station) and loves to entertain people with all the curiosities and mysteries that lay behnd the ominous door in the back of the gift shop. Jerry took us on a tour past giant dead spiders, old tractors, Hitler’s car, model Indians and then finally to the chest that contains the final resting place of… dun dun DUN… The Thing? (the question mark is very important).

The Metal Corral

Today was just supposed to be a driving day, getting a few hundred miles from Utah down to Arizona, but as we pulled off the freeway just outside Phoenix we spotted a fenced off piece of scrub land full of metal animal sculptures. So we went to check it out. In the middle of all these horses, elephants, giraffes, knights and monkeys playing in iron beds was a old trailer from which emerged Arturo Castellanos Velázquez, the artist responsible for the animals. It turns out he makes all sorts of customised wrought iron stuff, from doors to staircases (and giant cowboys riding bucking broncos). He didn’t speak English but we still managed to have a kind of chat. We had a quick look around and then escaped the 110 degree heat back into the van.

Day Off

Everything is going to plan, so we had a day off (which was also part of the plan). After leaving Jerry at the Wonder Tower we headed west, past Denver and through the Rockies to a place called Glenwood Springs. It’s just next door to Aspen so it’s all jolly nice. We went up to an amusement park which had a pretty sweet bobsleigh ride down the side of the mountain and spent the afternoon white water rafting. There wasn’t much white water, but it was all jolly nice (like the rest of this place), and our guide, Bobbie, happened to have some beer with her and took us to a hot spring pool on the banks of the river for a dip. All nice and relaxing, just what we needed. Now we’re off to eat, the road beacons in the morning.

Jerry’s Wonderful Tower

This is Jerry Chubbuck and he has a tower full of wonderful things in Genoa, Colorado – so many wonderful things the tower is called the Wonder Tower. Some would call these things junk, and they may well be right, but when you see so much of this ‘junk’ in one place, and this junk includes things like a bull castration device, a two-headed calf, thousands of Indian arrow heads, a snake pit, a rooster castration device (yeah, there’s a theme there), dinosaur poo and so much more, it’s a bit more than just junk. The tower itself has a viewing platform at the top that allows you to view 6 states at once. To say standing at the top of the tower felt safe would be like saying eating in American dinners everyday for a month is actually quite healthy, and that’s why people have different diets to improve their bodies or go through a cosmetic procedure for this same purpose.