Maxigumee

Okay. I’m totally sorry for not posting in like a WEEK, but I’ve been really busy. I was busy this weekend, when I decided to lend a hand (or like all of my hands) to my sister’s project on Vaudeville. We decided to make an iMovie in the fashion of “Best In Show” and “A Mighty Wind” with spoofy interviews with people about Vaudeville along with “historical” clips of Vaudevillian movies. We’re not completely finished with it, but, MY GOD, it’s awesome so far. Like, really. I didn’t know that iMovie could do so much! Or that you could get that high of video quality from using only a DIGITAL CAMERA. Not even a digital camcorder. A regular, $300 ghetto plastic DIGITAL CAMERA with movie mode. It’s awesome! Along with being ULTRA COOL, the movie was also very time consuming. We basically spent a good portion of the weekend and the beginning of this week working on it. You can see some of the photos used in the iMovie on my Flickr Stream starting here. (Keep clicking the “back” arrow to see the photos.)

If you go through the photos until you get past all the old-fashioned looking photos of eighth grade girls in skimpy lingerie smoking incense sticks, you will see some photos of the same girls shopping at Target and a local thrift store. At these places, we were picking out all of the skimpy, supposedly Vaudevillian-style clothing used in the photo/movie shoot. At Target, we bought three pairs of fishnet stockings (in different colors, too!). At the thrift store, we bought several dresses, including VERY, VERY short silk somethings from such places as Victoria’s Secret. We also bought some shoes, an idea I was kind of opposed to, because…. shoes from a thrift store? Ew! (See pictures of us picking out shoes by clicking here.)

After the shopping, we got home, the girls got styled up, and we began our photo/movie shoot. We even went outside in the FREEZING COLD, the girls only wearing their short, short skirts and furry stoles. A neighbor asked us where they were going all dressed up, and one of them said, “We’re working on a Social Studies project!” (See pictures of them standing outside by clicking here.)