As many close to me know I was contacted by a reporter from Esquire to do a story on the bauercount.com website. The end result has been posted on the web and I wanted to share. The story is similar (minus cusswords) to my blogpost “My Favorite Jack Bauer Kills“. Without any more delay!
Personally I felt it turned out well. Sharon called me on the phone awhile back and I was totally unprepaired but we got though all the questions and in the end result is fantastic. I’m glad a lot of the humor from the site made it into the article like the notorious “Random Terrorist” and other various “Random” character names. Also puting the video links for every kill was a good idea I can imagine readers enjoying that. Hopefully they have quicktime/iTunes installed! A last name of “VanLandschoot” making a story in the Best Magazine Ever is quite impressive. Just another fun experience I never though would happen back in 2005.
Apparently Attack of the Show did a story on the site as well. The capture we have of the story isn’t as clean as the Fox 17 story but it’s TOTALLY worth the watch. Vanbergs was a pal and totally on a wim caught the story. Using DV we got the story with some humorous and NSFW comments. AotS blogged about the story and below is the youtube video we got. Also available as a higher quality .mp4 because youtube blows.
Last night Fox 17 ran their story on the bauercount.com. The video of the interview is below…
Personally I thought the end result came out quite well. After all the grimnewsoftheday I thought the story put together was humorious well spirited. The piece came out very much like the D.C. story I blogged about in January. They both talked about Jacktracker (oddly enough they are showcasing on the season 5 map, season 6’s has just been started) and both where quick mentions of functionality and purpose of the sites. The D.C story was more focused on the mentality of somebody creating a “fansite” where as the Fox 17 story was more informational and entertaining.
I was really happy it with what pieces of the interview they showed. The site today wouldn’t be what it is minus all the help I’ve gotten from others and for me that story focused exactly on that. The story was not a neccessaryly about me and for that I was very happy. I am really proud of all the hard work and time put into the site and these types of stories showcase that. In the future I should have the raw footage of the internet and will be posting it.
Thanks again everybody for the kind words this was really a fun experience for somebody who never expected it. I’m sure everybody has already scene the video on jja’s post but I’ll put it here for good measure.
Just an FYI for all my Grand Rapids friends, family, enemy’s, and fans. Tuesday on their 10pm news cast WXMI Fox 17 will be running a story on bauercount.com that should include an interview with me. After the story airs I’m hoping to get a copy so I can post it on on the site for everybody to see.
Personally I’m pretty excited to see how this turns out. Thanks again to everybody involved, the end result should be pretty damn “LOL”. If you just CAN’T wait Flo’s Photo a day has a ’sneak preview’.
Update: Tonight during “24″ Fox showed a teaser for the story. Thanks to jjafuller for getting me a screen capture of VANLANDW on television. Don’t forget to watch everybody it should be really REALLY funny.
Update 2: jja threw the short teaser up on youtube….
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