Day at the Beach

so the first part of the day, was going to the beach early in the morning with a really, freakin' gorgeous (married) hungarian lady. we met at the TV station at 8am, and went with the TV crew to a beach near the Osaka airport. there we filmed a scene walking on the beach, pretending to here a noise coming from across the sea. my only picture of the two of us together is a little blurry because its from my cell phone...(accidently deleted my picture that i took on my real camera)

then we went back to the station, and she (Kate) went home. i stuck around to meet the black mayonaise guy s(BMG) and decided to go to nara to shoot another scene with them later. i waited around with the BMG to see them do a green screen shoot so they could put computer graphics in the background. the BGM were pretty funny, dancing around.

the story of the commercial is, one of the BMGs is painted green to look like a big buhdda statue, and he is very sad. so he drinks the Oronamin C drink, and gets soooooo happy that he screams with joy. the scream is so loud however, that its frightening and painful to the ears of anyone close to him, and me and my freakin' gorgeous (married) hungarian lover can hear it across the ocean.

i think there will be more than one version, because the third part of the day was spent going to the magical, holy city of nara. nara is full of parks with buhdda statues and it is well known for its VERY tame deer, that you can feed and are particularly beau-

well, they are tame anyway. and where there are tons of deer, there are also tons of

i arrived with the TV crew and the BMGs, and then we were joined by about a dozen students of a specialty "talent" school where they are studying comedy, TV announcement and radio DJing. in nara, i was with them in the background helping to keep the deer in the picture by feeding them and acting just like regular tourists.


in the next picture:

the director is on the right, and one of the BMGs (Yoshida) is in the middle with the black plaid shirt. the buhdda statue BMG (Kosugi) is in green here:


the camera guys kept feeding the deer all of the "deer wafers" they could eat to keep them in view. they were well fed on this day.

while shooting, invariably i discovered how REALLY famous these guys are. if ONE kid saw one of them, a huge cround would gather in the wings of the shoot:

and it wouldnt dissapate until the guys took an "autograph break". there were four or five breaks in the five hours of shooting in nara, and the kids were always jumping with joy.

since i have posted some pics on my japanese blog tons of people have left comments on it saying that they cant believe i got to meet these guys. apparently they are as famous as the Seinfeld troop would be in the US, or Mnoty Python in the UK and they have their own show as well as a lot of guest appearances on other variety shows...


overall it was a fun day and i hope to be able to get a recording of the commercial up on youtube soon. i saw a couple of my old students and told them that i was gonna be in this commercial and they were freaking out too. here is another pic of some random kids waiting for autographs:

Mine,
Erich von Meatleg

PS - if you like the little effects i have been putting on my pictures, you can get the same software i use to do it here: its called Picturesque