June 2009
28 posts
Today is the Day! A genius grows in Brooklyn...
After a whole night of editing, last minute edits are now taking place. The favorite sketckes are being chosen for the screening. There is laughter, stress, genius, and fatigue surrounding this camp in Brooklyn. The groups will be ready to show you the fruit of their labors tonight!
At this very second. the groups are looking over one particular sketch about room mates not quite seeing eye to...
27 Hours Until Doors Open for the Screening
Hey Everyone,
It’s Erika again! Here’s a picture of me writing this blog right now. When Now? Now, Now.
Photo credits go to Tyler (Horsehead Businessman.) A fine gentleman.
We just finished up lunch at a Mexican restaurant. Discussed Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
Relevant stuff accomplished today:
-The last sketch has been filmed, and it’s being edited as I write...
The first four days I was here, I was all locked up.
No stool.
Lately though…. success!
Checking in on Day 11...
…Or by Michael Swaim’s math, Day 14.
Hi,
I’m Erika. I’m the intern, and I’m not getting paid, so please allow me to spill the dirt on Genius Camp. The 20 hour deadline for editing was just announced, so four editing stations are being used for a total of 40 hours of editing left!
Without giving too much away; Noah is following one of the dogs around for a sketch....
Checking In On Day 13
This is officially the unluckiest day of Genius Camp, and accordingly, our tent started taking on rain water, our sketches are all a day or two behind, and Noah was killed.
But man, is it going to be worth it. The scant few sketches that are in a finished state are looking fabulous (we even got a Red up in this bitch), and they all have a certain special blend of each comedian’s unique herbs and...
So.. - NoahHB
We all keep driving Scott crazy by singing his song…found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1jQRb3TSc
Once it’s in your head, it can’t stop…. Have you ever heard of Son of Sam?
Wiki excerpt:
“Shortly after his arrest in August 1977, Berkowitz confessed to killing six people and wounding seven others in the course of eight shootings in New York between 1976...
MissingKyler - NoahHB
Kyler, I hope you got back home safe. We miss you very much. We’ve been hanging out, listening to Dream Kids over and over and thinking of you. Well I hope so much you are well. We miss you like. Please WRITE. Amnd don’t!!
Love,
KYLER
- NoahHB
Tomorrow ends my self-imposed exile from Genius Camp. I wonder how all my friends will have changed since I last saw them- will Noah have a full-grown beard? Will Taige have forgotten my name? Will Michael Swaim have raised enough money for his heart operation? Will Grant, the invisible member, have figured out how to knock things over well enough so we know he’s there? Only time will reveal...
journal entry #2 - KyleMooney
Tonight’s entry is going to be a conversation with my bud Tyler (Horsehead Businessman). We basically talked for an hour, and tried to type our conversation as it happened. It got really difficult. And I apologize if this is super confusing.
Kyle: Hey man, last night was awesome.
Tyler: Hell yeah, it was. Remember all those shots?
Kyle: Yeah, totally. Should we tell them about the...
Shoot Numbah 1 - MichaelSwaim
That was the hardest shoot of my life, and it’s about half over. Jeeeeeeeez. Still, not only did I get to act across from Ryan Hall and Jenn Lyons, I got to watch them step in poop, get bitten by mosquitoes, pee in a rock quarry and literally shower themselves in filth and gold.
And that’s all I ever asked for.
journal entry #1 - KyleMooney
yesterday i watched taige film a bunch of statues and birds, then i got drunk with my brother and hit on new york girls. i did not get lucky, but i’m definitely getting more confident. there was also this touristy foreign dude that wanted me to take a picture of him next to a flat iron building. i did, and when i showed him the photo on the back of his camera he was so excited. “Yes!...
Official Soundtrack of the Genius Camp Tumblr -... →
Finally
I’m going to get lit in W-Burg. Whose with me?
- NickRutherford
Go Time (working title) - AbeEpperson
We have officially broken up into groups for the first segment of videos. Temporary team names are as follows:
- Roof Turds*
- Shit Shoe*
- The Goof Poop*
* Poo theme was not required or even encouraged.
I leave you with this clip for further understanding of our current collective mental state. - AbeEpperson
Games we've been playing - NoahHB
1. Where’s the shit smell coming from?
2. Who stepped in shit?
3. How many different places can we track shit into? - Noahhb
Mike's Day 1 Recap - MichaelSwaim
Sketches made: 0
Sketch ideas generated: several thousand, but they were all immediately forgotten.
Dolly Parton-themed birthday parties at gay bars attended: 1
Drinks had: As many as you’d expect.
Everyone is hugging and laughing and rolling around in the tent. It’s like coming home. If my parents molested me and made me drink a lot. Tonight, Good Neighbor joins us and the work...
