Make sure you have the most recent version of Quicktime installed.
Well, I knew we’d get around to making a real vlog post some time. Abby takes too much video with her camera, and Aaron is way too good of an editor. So without further ado, please join Abby and Aaron on their trip to the new Stoughton, Mass IKEA… in which Abby kisses a frog, and it turns into a prince.
Comment by Walter
November 12, 2005 @ 9:15 am
Liz only came here and left a comment because she heard me cackling in the other room.
Comment by parental unit
November 12, 2005 @ 9:41 am
Okay, it worked! Very cool. I liked the parking lot sequence best, though frog/prince graphics were a close second…
Version 7.0, Quick Time, it made the stuff on CSPAN work too. I’m a Version 7.0 junkie…
Comment by ravi
November 12, 2005 @ 9:45 am
But how were the meatballs?!
Sonia and I were able to go down for a sneak preview last weekend (we know someone who works there). It was madness even thought it hadn’t open! There’s a little video montage of our trip in the latest episode of DriveTime.
After panicky trips to NJ and then New Haven (panicky because we’d rented some strange shaped car and had to make sure we maximized our trip), it’s nice to have this one right on the way to Sonia’s parents house — meatballs every weekend!
Comment by Abby
November 12, 2005 @ 9:57 am
Aaron and I are bummed we didn’t take more video. We got so excited on the way in that I asked him to video the scene, but once we got inside, we were having so much fun that the video-ing fell by the wayside.
Aaron says he just noticed how the editing makes it look like I’m telling him to film the guys with the flashlights directly traffic as we’re already passing them, creating something that is more a caricature of me than the real me. In reality, I said it a good 50 feet before we got there.
This reality show is totally messing wiith my personality, dude. I feel misunderstood. No, not really. I noticed that impression it gave as he was editing, and it’s cool. I thought it was funnier that way.
Comment by Aaron H
November 12, 2005 @ 9:58 am
Be careful not to expose TOO much that goes on behind the curtain. What if Liz realizes we aren’t THAT insane and it’s just the editing that makes it so?
Comment by Abby's mom
November 12, 2005 @ 4:41 pm
Okay. I love that kiss the frog and he turns into a prince bit. Can I send you some video of me kissing a frog and some of your dad, and have you fix it up? I’ll have to find a frog. Would a cat or dog do?
Comment by Frisbee Girl
November 12, 2005 @ 6:14 pm
Holy crap, you guys, that was AWESOME!! I watched it twice because I was laughing so hard the first time around. Goof balls, botha ya!
Comment by Steve Garfield
November 12, 2005 @ 10:40 pm
Yay! Two more true video bloggers are born! It’s going to be an Ikea video blogging frezy in New England with you and Ravi already having been there, you know Carol and Steve have got to go too!
I hope you bought that frog after you kissed it.
Comment by lin
November 13, 2005 @ 11:34 am
Watched the movie with my boyfriend who does communication at Ikea here in NL. Loved the clip, but wished it was more of the inside of the store… Maybe later?
Love the boxer dog to. We have a white boxer… An oldie… 
regards!
Lin & Robert
Comment by Abby
November 13, 2005 @ 3:09 pm
I so wish we’d done more inside the store, too. To be honest, we were just having so much fun that we sort of forgot about the video. Next time we do a video, we’ll prepare and actually get some sort of narrative goin!
Glad you enjoyed it. 
Comment by ceci
November 28, 2005 @ 1:07 am
i’m commenting because i’m following your rules for this blog… such an obedient college student I am… and fan of ikea. good job w/ the video. i love that transfiguration trick at the end, what portion did you use? :p
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Comment by Liz
November 12, 2005 @ 9:12 am
You.
Two.
Are.
INSANE!