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Back in 2001 Sarah and I teamed up with our friend Matt Blackburn to make a short film at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. We wanted to see what people would say about the whole "booth babes" phenomenon, which was an infamous component to the male-dominated E3 Expos. We were at E3, of course, with GamesFirst.com, and Matt was a videogame reviewer for the site. He agreed to be Sarah's sidekick and together they conducted interviews with all sorts of folks around the show.

I really had more of a technical production role in this one. I borrowed the Hi-8 video camera we used from Jason Frank, and I edited/mixed/finalized the film in the end. We all collaborated on the questions Matt would ask, and Brian Clark (aka DJ Funken Wagnalls) provided a custom soundtrack after I had a rough edit.

Overall, it's not bad. It's quick and lite and has some sound issues. But it's quick… This has been available online for a long time. In fact, I received an infamous cease and desist letter for hosting it on my website via a BitTorrent tracker. That was funny, here's an archival link. So this vid has a special place in my heart.