Latest Shoot: The Trouble With Trilobites

This is a trilobite: It's one of the many fossils shown to us on our latest shoot for "Oklahoma Rocks!" at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Invertebrate Paleo Curator Stephen Westrop gave us access to several great samples. Trilobite guru Jennifer Eoff filled in the rest of the trilo-holes in the script. And if that wasn't enough we got a great interview with Neil Suneson from the Oklahoma Geologic Survey who proceeded to rattle off fact after fact about Oklahoma geology until our batteries went dead. We're making a big push with the editing and hope to have the film completed in the next few months. Stay tuned for information about the world premiere!

New Video: Commentary Blooper

Good news: The "North Texas Explorer - The Complete Series" DVD Set is on its way. And a funny thing happened as we attempted to record an audio commentary for one of the episodes...

"Oklahoma Rocks!" Video Journal 4

And now here is the long awaited "Oklahoma Rocks!" Video Journal 4. Hope you like listening to people complain about the weather.

New Video: Baby Rhino!

Yeah! Baby Rhino! Yeah!



Yeah!

Latest Shoot: Smells Like Blog Spirit

Picture it: Lake Murray.  Summertime.  Geology.  It's how we roll.  Coincidentally it's also the latest EMI shoot for the documentary "Oklahoma Rocks!"

Tucker Tower Nature Center (at Lake Murray State Park) has the distinction of being the world's only coin operated Nature Center...or at least the only one we've ever found.  

A befuddled Devin Dennie contemplates the existential ramifications of a lack of pocket change:

50 cents later we were swimming in footage aplenty.  Personally I thought the idea of a coin operated turnstile was a charming throwback...and much more satisfying than the claw game (or crane game, if you will).

At this point in production we are just getting "pickup shots," which just means we are in the middle of editing and are picking up the extra shots that the film needs.  So this was a fairly quick one.

We got in.  We got footage.  We got out.

Take a closer look at the picture of Devin above.  Due to the short notice nature of this shoot and that Devin had previously lost his hat (see the SE Oklahoma Shoot Blog for details), we had to use one the older, cat urine soaked hats.  It's not exactly preferable but at least now we'll have an anecdote for the audio commentary.

So enjoy the view and the next time you see Devin try and act like he doesn't smell like cat urine (that's what I do).

More pics on the website: http://www.okgeology.com

Video Blog: Devin Bloopers

Can't get enough Devin? Here's a healthy helping of bloopers from NTE and other stuff:

 

Those are the bloopiest bloopers that ever blooped.

New Video: Wax On, Wax Off!

Feast you eyes on this:  Devin visits the Wax Museum (plus a little science thrown in there too).

 

Sculpt us some beautiful comments.