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Actually a week ago Friday.

I really can't draw vehicles. You know, like cars and buses and helicopters... which was a bit of a problem in telling this particular story. haha.

Special thanks to my dad for the tripod!

Music is Alone Again Or by Calexico with Nicholai Dunger and his band

ps- could i get a lamer thumbnail? boo!
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  • Remyyy 1 year ago
    Wow wow wow wow ! How you do that ? Each time it's better. Very very very impressive. Your narration (with this um) is really great ! I loved it (even if it's about a difficult event). Hope nobody was hurt but I'm afraid when you show the pictures !
  • Remyyy 1 year ago
    And about the vehicles, I love them !
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  • PEIKA 1 year ago
    its been so nice watching your clips on vimeo!
    I really like your stuff,,,,, tripods rule!
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  • ojo 1 year ago
    you CAN draw vehicles, this video is so nice, and as Remyyy I also would like how you did it. Seems to be a hard work.
  • duplo 1 year ago
    It was all made on a dry erase board and i pretty much made the video backwards because it is easier to erase as you go then to draw.

    and it was a lot of work! when i started i somehow kidded myself into thinking it would be a minor project... instead i've barely seen the light of day all week.
  • djp 1 year ago
    duplo, it was worth the effort. BRILLIANT.
    i love how the white balance goes all over the place too.
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  • charliesteadman 1 year ago
    Excellent. This took some time to do. It's really good. Glad you're okay!
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  • AA 1 year ago
    I liked your way of telling the story. They should do news stories like this. Exactly like this.
  • ojo 1 year ago
    Yeah! especially for the foreigners ;-)
  • Perez 1 year ago
    what?
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  • Buck Flashroy 1 year ago
    Wow, that is such a cool video. What's wierd is that when I made my car crash video a couple of months ago ( vimeo.com/clip:104883 ) you made this comment;
    "This is so great. It makes me want to have a car accident so i can do a re-enactment, to. Sadly, i don't even have a car so i think i'm out of luck. "

    be careful what you wish for!!!
  • Buck Flashroy 1 year ago
    P.S this is the 1000th video that I have liked!!!!
  • duplo 1 year ago
    oh yeah! you know, when i first decided to do this video i was going to do it pretty much the same way you did but... well this is what developed. you were definately my inspiration.
  • FuzzyDave 1 year ago
    Holy Crap, Buck! Is that how it works???
    Then you MUST do a video where you are ravaged by many ample-bosomed Oktoberfest Beer Wenches.

    This way, I can comment, "This is so great. It makes me want to be the meat in a St. Pauli Girl Sandwich, but alas and alack, I have no stein."

    Then, three months later...BAM! Tits n Beer for Fuzzy.

    Yes.
  • AA 1 year ago
    Lol!
  • Buck Flashroy 1 year ago
    duplo - Glad you didn't get hurt and also that I inspired you. I like your way of animating a lot.

    FuzzyDave - I've been waiting ages for an excuse to make a video like that!
  • Duplo's Dad 1 year ago
    hahahahaha, fuzzydave! :D
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  • CTD3 1 year ago
    Priceless, well told! I love this and all them ,,,

    Ums!
    Good story telling!
    Bravo!
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  • Si 1 year ago
    Yeeoow! That was amazing! Well worth the time and effort. Nice one Duplo, glad you didn't get hurt.
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  • jendreams 1 year ago
    Wow, that was awesome. Not the accident (obviously), but the video itself. Your videos just get more and more creative, I agree with Remyyy.
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  • SteveR 1 year ago
    Really clever and original.
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  • Esther17 1 year ago
    first, holy moly on the accident, but glad that nobody was seriously hurt.

    second, very well done all around.
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  • Perez 1 year ago
    brilliant.
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  • Konopiera 1 year ago
    Totally excellent! Well done!!
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  • brentito 1 year ago
    Me likey. I was hanging on every suspense-filled "um".
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  • luca 'o yeah 1 year ago
    very cool...
    better the animation than if u had recorded it with a camera..
    cheers
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  • SaraLily 1 year ago
    I feel bad hitting the "like it" button since it was such a scary incident but this video is amazing, duplo!! I'm stunned!
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  • Ben Millett 1 year ago
    My favorite part is when the girl in the blue car gives a thumbs up from the gurney. Well made video.
  • keauxgeigh 1 year ago
    I second this favorite part. Brilliant vim!
  • andrea 1 year ago
    Yes, me too. When I saw that, I thought, what a clever way to show she was basically OK, even though she was taken away in an ambulance. You have such a great way of translating ideas into something visually concrete.
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  • Golgottan 1 year ago
    that's really good. I was scared you've been hurted and had done that video to spend time at the hospital!
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  • Ale 1 year ago
    how to report a scary event in a great compelling way... bravo, this is a piece of art (erm... the video, not the accident, I mean...)
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  • lindsey! 1 year ago
    ohh i love it i love it! i'm so glad you're ok!
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  • sepia salax 1 year ago
    Not only is this an amazing video, but I SAW THAT!
    At least, I saw the aftermath...
    12th & Division, right? I was headed for New Seasons, and then, well, you know better than I.

    Take care, and make sure you listen to your body in case of aftershocks! (sorry, perhaps a bit mom-ish of me)
  • duplo 1 year ago
    haha. my mom WAS really worried about that. she called me the next day to make sure i still felt all right.

    im fine!
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  • ed 1 year ago
    This is your best yet. Well done.
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  • MARCY 1 year ago
    ohdear.
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  • noshoes 1 year ago
    I love hoe the girl with minor injuries lifts her arm up while on the gerny.
  • Jakob Lodwick 1 year ago
    That was my favorite part, as well as the police and firemen.
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  • Alex Itin 1 year ago
    nicely told story. Congrats
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  • Brooklyn Kitchen 1 year ago
    The understatement is what makes it. A terrific video! One of the best I've seen on Vimeo.
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  • HaNNaH123 1 year ago
    wow, all your clips are AMAZING! I loved watching this! Thank you for taking the time to share this freak bus accident story! Thats so crazy!
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  • eat a bug 1 year ago
    Nice dude! What parts did you do backwards? That's a good idea.

    I totally thought it was a fake story till the pics in the end. I like the blending of the animation and the real pictures.
  • duplo 1 year ago
    everything was done backwards.

    yeah, i wanted to show some proof so you guys would know i wasn't a faker.
  • eat a bug 1 year ago
    Wow.

    And yeah, nice thumbnail. HA!
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  • genevieve 1 year ago
    brutal
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  • cans 1 year ago
    great video. have you heard the original version of that song by love? get the album "forever changes" by them. its amazing.

    but yeah, that was the coolest video ever.
  • duplo 1 year ago
    glad you liked it!

    I've never heard the original. i guess i probably should! i love love love the song.
  • minialger 1 year ago
    I love um... Love! And I agree with cans, Forever Changes is the best album ever.
    These videos you create drawing are just great!
  • Tallulah 1 year ago
    I agree -- great video, great song! Another version of "Alone Again (Or)" you should definitely hear is the one by the Damned. Anyway, glad that you're okay.
  • Brooklyn Kitchen 1 year ago
    Music-wise I agree with both cans and Tallulah, but the version by Love kicks butt (it was the first after all).
  • Tallulah 1 year ago
    Point well taken, Brooklyn Kitchen. Arthur Lee is invariably cooler than Dave Vanian. I've always liked Captain Sensible-era Damned, anyway.
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  • cayoyin 1 year ago
    Awesome clip! Very, very creative, very entertaining and very, very well done! Standing ovation right there!
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  • CasualWonder 1 year ago
    this is the first video of yours that i ever saw and afterwards I defenetely want to see more. Well done. I liked that causeltiness of your unpolished storytelling and the endning with real pics from the place. Good job!
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  • GrimReap3r 1 year ago
    $$$?????????
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  • islebehere 1 year ago
    um... glad you weren't, um...hurt. =)
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  • tpfire 1 year ago
    Good to hear no one was hurt, that could have been ugly. Great job, as always... but you could have make that fireman a little hotter!
    (:-)
  • andrea 1 year ago
    funny, I thought the fireman was very hot, especially next to the cop! (of course, I think firemen are hot in general)
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  • TheMatriarchs 1 year ago
    Great story and great animation... keep it up.
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  • artelisa 1 year ago
    what a gorgeous work !!! :))
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  • Paul McClintock 1 year ago
    gosh!
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  • vimeoman 1 year ago
    Groovy, Not your accident, but the story you tell
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  • kids of eighties 1 year ago
    very nice clip and nice drawing
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  • mobtown 1 year ago
    Great!
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  • everysandwich 1 year ago
    Well, from reading the comments, I gather you're well known around here, Duplo, but it's my first viewing of your stuff, so indulge my reinterative compliments on this. I'd love to know more of your process, gear and software. I thought the drawings were nice, personal, quirky and fun, and the narration, um, delighfully conversational. I'm glad all survived with only minor incident.
  • duplo 1 year ago
    Glad you liked it!

    As far as process, gear and software... i'm pretty low tech. this is made of still shots i took with my digital camera of a white board (or dry erase board). About 2500 of them. I edited them together in iMovie.

    For process... well, i'm always learning a i go. In the case of this movie, I recorded the voice over first and then created the movie backwards. i only really did that because i found it so much easier to write out a sentance and then erase it word by word then visa versa. it made it a bit confusing from time to time but it worked out. the whole thing took me about 40 hours. haha... i need to get paid for this stuff...
  • Ian Lucero 1 year ago
    "the whole thing took me about 40 hours. haha... i need to get paid for this stuff..."

    No kidding!
  • everysandwich 1 year ago
    Thank you for all that info, duplo. The backwards thing must have been a real exercise in productive dylexia. My head hurts thinking about it. Sure worth the effort though :)
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  • CygnusX1 1 year ago
    holy moly, thats stunning. The way you visualize things is so funny (for example the girl that is driven to the hospital, but "she is ok"). And your narration also fits perfectly, perfect symbiosis.
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  • FRAME01 1 year ago
    I LOVED!!!...you have a particular way to tell and see the things....amazing!...
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  • oldbread 1 year ago
    great video kudos for using love as background music!
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  • LCF 1 year ago
    that clip made me so happy - as in the great way of telling the story, and I guess I can feel better liking this cause everyone is going to be ok! - it kind of puts a positive/personal spin on something that could be quite shocking

    *watches again*
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  • sherski 1 year ago
    Duplo, I really enjoyed your retelling of this event with all of the cute drawings. I like the follow-up photos at the end, too, just because they help substantiate this otherwise completely unbelievable tale! My favorite drawing is the one of the hunky fireman, mainly because of his stubble! You continue to amaze and impress me with your talents and quirky sense of humor. But try to remember that your mother has a weak constitution. So please do not to get in any more accidents, alright? Even IF you can create a cool new video about it afterwards...
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  • keith 1 year ago
    Really neat!
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  • pflynn02 1 year ago