Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Ya buddy oops! TTYT
Update – Wednesday night
Ha! Even during the debauchery, I still blogged, still haven’t missed a day this year.
Don’t remember taking these.
Paid for it today, it was worth it, because guys: I might work too much.
Our 16th Gold, more than any other country, phft.
One of the most fun filming experiences ever. The streets were… it’s tough to describe that much genuine happiness.
Here’s to us doing it again tomorrow!
It was four years ago Sun Media shipped me out to cover the 2010 Games in Vancouver. Back when I was ‘The Canadian Explorer‘. That all felt odd to type.
I was hired to produce a video / day on weekdays, and a daily 100-word column.
The column was called, “Social Keri”. I had not input there.
That backpack, my mobile studio – 22 pounds. Now it’s half that.
I could do an entire video, “What’s really happening behind all these videos and columns”.
I got the job because I sold the “a video a day” angle, except I’d never done that before. So I sent myself into training, practicing writing “100 Words Today“, and producing a daily video series called, “Live at 5“.
Or that newspaper headshot, I hadn’t slept for 62 hours there. Of course my camera broke the day before I left.
Until that video, here’s a mega post about my 3 weeks at the Games.
I even managed to secure a sponsorship, and by Canada Goose at that.
My camera is on a garbage can, ha.
One of my favourite Olympic episodes – dancing with Spandy Andy.
Spandy Andy is a local Vancouver celebrity, from his bio:
I travel the world dancing in SPANDEX. Learn more about my TIGHT BRIGHT philosophy by visiting SpandyAndy.com
I’d dragged a guy out of the newsroom to film us. But after security kicked us out, he got scared and abandoned the shoot.
So I did this.
Didn’t think twice, it was that kind of atmosphere, genuinely happy.
Filmed in the epicentre of the Games.
Spandy Andy has gone on to do quite well for himself.
He was on Think You Can Dance’, a regular performer at MarineWorld, and his Youtube has 10.3 million views, nice Andy. Here’s his Twitter.
The paper permitted me to film and cover whatever I wished, so I explored around and interviewed people with my screwdriver microphone.
Miss that thing.
These are all screenshots.
Because this is the bad thing: I never uploaded any of them to my YouTube account.
It floors me, but they’re all still live on Sun Media’s servers.
Until tonight, I hadn’t watched of these since I made them.
Even made it up to Whistler.
On the Alberta Train.
Where I ran into Maelle Ricker, and held a Gold medal. My editor loved this one.
Here’s another time I held a Gold medal, includes a better photo of it.
Roamed the streets every night.
That 3 weeks really was one of those once-in-a-lifetime, time-of-my-life experiences.
