Saturday, April 9, 2011

Robo-Sexual

After a failed relationship, Skot decides to swear off woman all together. He works fiendishly in his basement on the prototype for a robotic sexual companion. He then takes his new date  out  on the town, and enters a couples dance contest.

This is the first video we ever shot, and  it was part of a musical we never completed. The best part of making this video, was making the robot suit. I went to home depot, and bought a trash can, and some metal tubes to make the bulk of it . The eyes are actually from a giant Mr. Potato head I had, and the rest of the costume was made out of duct tape, and broken computer parts. I'm pretty sure I stayed up till 7am making this in my basement.

 We filmed part of the video at Bubes Brewery (http://www.bubesbrewery.com/). They let us shoot there on a Monday when it was slow, and we had a bunch of our friends show up to be extras. It was really hard directing, and coordinating  a bunch of drunk people, but they did an awesome job. Our friend Ethan Tuthill played the robot, and had to be in the costume for 5 hrs or so. It was hard to see out of the eye holes of the costume, plus the lighting inside the bar was kinda dark, so there was a few times Ethan fell or stumbled into something.  When he got out of it, his eyes were blood shot and he was drenched in sweat.



 The other part of the video was shot at my apartment. We got our friend Wes Funk to fill in for Ethan, cuz after being in that suit for five hours he needed a break. We continued shooting till about 7am. I think I drank 3 energy drinks, and had very little sleep during the making of this, which might explain the insanity of this video.


Since the video, we've had robosexual apear at a few of our shows.

 
( Testosteroso Live at Club XS 10/14/09)

(Robo-sexual feeling up  Mandi Malfunction at Club XS  http://www.facebook.com/MandiSometimes)

We hope to bring him back in another video, but it is hard to write songs about having sex with robots, although it is fun to do.

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