The positive aspect to this shoot was that I got to work together with Maangchi! She is a legendary Korean chef and has a YouTube channel of the same name- Maangchi. She is the sweetest and spunkiest person you will ever meet! Make sure you check it out, subscribe to her and check out the random costumes/accessories she wears in her videos . . . she’s an inspiration to me to be more relaxed with my videos and to have more FUN. Earlier in the day, before the security guard incident, we shot a video for her channel called Kimchi Stew and she showed me the ins and outs of how to make it, which is a backpacking type meal in Korea. It was so good. Like, so good. I hadn’t ever had Korean food before as I don’t count the one time I have tried kimchi as “Korean food”. The stew was spicy, hearty and crunchy, which is unlike any stew I had ever had in Canada before . . . and it had fish in it.
Dessert Fruit Pizza
February 16, 2014 by
The only thing that could possibly make pizza better than the greatest food it already is, is turning it into a dessert!! This pizza is not the ordinary kind; it has a shortbread crust, cream cheese and cinnamon sauce, and is topped with tons of fresh fruit!
We filmed this video while we were down in LA last week and it was quite the battle. We were all set up to go when a security guard pulled up and asked if we had a permit for filming where we were. We, said yes, YouTube knows we’re shooting here, and she said that it was not YouTube’s property that we were standing on. We were literally five meters from the YouTube parking lot in some bushy area. So, rather than attempt to fill out a form, pay a fee and wait for permission, we packed up and moved all of our stuff onto YouTube property. The parking lot to be exact. You have to love LA and it’s over abundance of requiring filming permits everywhere! The security guard was just doing her job, but the property line was so close, it seemed absolutely ridiculous at the time. So there we are in the parking lot, trying to have it not look like we were surround by asphalt and cars, and the wind starts blowing. If you’ve ever been outside and tried to talk on the phone when the wind is blowing, you’ll know that it’s next to impossible for the person on the other end to hear you. All they hear is “shsshshshshshshhshsh”. The same goes with microphones when you’re filming! So the wind was causing problems with the sound, and the wind also stirred something up that had my eyes burning and watering, nose running, and skin itching! It was ridiculous! In every shot I’m sniffing, I look like I’m scowling (but really I just can’t use my eyes) and I want to scratch my skin off. It sucked! Somehow we managed to shoot a video through all of this, and Paul did his magic and turned it into something watch-able. It took him DAYS to edit. I felt so bad, and so guilty!
