Ibaraki Girls - [video]

[mr. sparkle]

Hey Gang,

It's time for another mr. sparkle production!

Another FG exclusive produced by Rob Pongi!

Rob Pongi interviews 2 cute girls from Ibaraki on there way to Lexington Queen to meet cool English dudes. The mysterious Rob never appears onscreen, but who cares?

We wanna see the cuties!

Check it out: Ibaraki Girls


gots ta love 'dem ibaraki girls!

SanQ!--feri muchu!

[stolid_revenge]

I'm using Firefox and couldn't watch, so I tried it in IE and still couldn't watch it so I updated my version of Quicktime and still can't watch it. Any tips?

[devicenull]

http://www.fcpworld.com/videos/Ibaraki_Girls.mp4

yay for source

[Dood_Mon_Dang_]

Weird. I have Firefox and the updated quicktime and it worked fine for me.

Anyway, great clip Mr. Sparkle.

[mr. sparkle]

I'm using Firefox and couldn't watch, so I tried it in IE and still couldn't watch it so I updated my version of Quicktime and still can't watch it. Any tips?

ummm...buy a mac?

suuu--wEET!

just kiddin'. my friend can't play back mpeg 4 quicktime on his PC either, and he said, pretty much, the same thing as you. his pc is pretty slow though.

how 'bout a cold reboot? repair permissions, shut down, start up and see what happens.

i'm running QT 6.5. The movie runs in IE 5.2.2, Netscape 7.1, Safari 1.0.2. The video will not play back in Opera 6.0.3, unfortunately. I use Safari and IE usually.

bill gates doesn't make things easy with QT and PCs nowadays, unfortunately. don't have the drive space to rip real or .wmv files right now.

why QT?

keep in mind that cupertino is my home town.


been huffin' apple fumes a long, long time m'friend!

BTW, what is firefox? a viewer?

Cheers,

[mr. sparkle]

I guess what I'm trying to say is, there may be something fishy with sparkle's settings for Windows playback compatibility, but it sort of works now in IE6 after a complete uninstall and reinstall of Quicktime.

OK, we'll figger this out. Go to your Quicktime control panel (the mac term is system prefs>Quicktime). Click on the MIME settings button. Turn down the triangle for MPEG. Make sure MPEG 4 is checked.

Does that help?

Really, don't blame me...blame Bill.

Maybe I can get Rob to post these to his site as well.

[Kanchou]

I love how the girls *totally* picked up Rob's oh-so-subtle accent.

Follen People!

Oh, it works if you download the file and run it in VideoLAN...

http://www.videolan.com

[Caustic Saint]

i'm running QT 6.5. The movie runs in IE 5.2.2, Netscape 7.1, Safari 1.0.2.

Get thee to an upgrade, mister!

1.2.1 (v125.1) is out with the Panther 10.3.3 update.

[mr. sparkle]

I love how the girls *totally* picked up Rob's oh-so-subtle accent.

Follen People!

Oh, it works if you download the file and run it in VideoLAN...

http://www.videolan.com

That is a crack-up. The funniest thing, I think, is the "subtext" going on in the background.

There's this heinous Danish dude on the left side of the frame totally pawing Pongi's ex-old lady, Miss Emi -- right in front of him and on camera. About half way thorough the clip, it's touchy feely central---EWWWW....

I call him, "The Lecherous Dane". More than likely, "fucked". There is actually an interview with he and the aforementioned ex-paramour.

I'm sorry that I've spoiled the clip for you--you'll never watch it the same way again! heh heh ...


miss emi

[mr. sparkle]

i'm running QT 6.5. The movie runs in IE 5.2.2, Netscape 7.1, Safari 1.0.2.

Get thee to an upgrade, mister!

1.2.1 (v125.1) is out with the Panther 10.3.3 update.

ain't runnin' panther yet. i is a po' author type. hopefully, i can get a cheap copy from the kids at apple. it's weird--i get shake fo' free, but i gotta buy panther.

[DJEB]

[mr. sparkle]

San Queue Berry Muchyu Boss-sama!

San-Q!

WOW! Now that, ladies and getlemen, is some very serious heavyweight professional video editing at its very best.

not really rob--you are the magic man! a little razor blade tool and a flash transition and away we go!


not quite as magic as the pongi--but close!

I just cut out the boring bits. i just see the footage with presh eyes!

Thank you Mr. Sparkle! You are the one, the only one, who can turn garbage into gold. Love the violin music bed too! It definately gives it a real classical feel!

Cheers!

Rob

dude man, that was the app,"soundtrack". this comes bundled with fcp 4. i composed the royalty-free track in about 15 minutes. it's so rockin'. i like ST 'cuz i can break something out faster than trying to find it in a sound library. great fun-yo!

peace-out...

[Frost]

This video is the reason I think RobPongi.com rocks! Sure the other videos are great, but the thing that got me hooked was the conversations with people, thats where the true magic happens.

quote Rob: "so you like foreigners? from what country?"
Girls: "From England, where are you from?"
Rob: "umm...im from London, YEAH!!!!"

best line ever!

[Big Booger]

Frost,
Did you see her eyes when he said it.. she wanted the Pongi Jack Hammer.


Did you meet up later Rob? Tell the truth.

[Caustic Saint]

Did you see her eyes when he said it.. she wanted the Pongi Jack Hammer.

Rob is no longer able to give out the Jack Hammer of love....

'cause he gave it to me!



And I even got him to sign it for proof of authenticity:



(Sadly, the custom engraving didn't survive too well in my luggage.)

[American Oyaji]

I cant wait to get internet back at my place so I can watch this stuff.

[DjMitch_UK]

hehe can't they tell your so obviously not English from the accent?!!? :P

On the other hand, If its that easy too get J-chicks Im gunna leave for Japan today!

[Kanchou]

Hmm... Just curious, but is there a way to find downloadable video files on other sites that have stream-only movies?

I really hate stream video, and sometimes they hardly work at all

I tried to "view source" on the page, but that wouldn't work and I'm curious to how you can find videos like that.

[noigeaR]

I'm using Firefox and couldn't watch

i have no problem watching the videos with firefox. check here if the quicktime plugins are installed correctly http://www.gemal.dk/browserspy/plugins_detail.html

great video by the way

[Frost]

if on PC just right-click and save as
http://www.fcpworld.com/videos/Ibaraki_Girls.mp4

thanks for that link devicenull!

[mr. sparkle]

i have no problem watching the videos with firefox. check here if the quicktime plugins are installed correctly http://www.gemal.dk/browserspy/plugins_detail.html

Thanks for that handy link.

I finally got it to play in Firefox. I previously only had the Browser Plug-in MIME type set to mp4,mpg4, but not the general File Type Association. I selected mp4,mpg4 for general File Type Associations and now it plays fine. So there are two tabs which have to have this MIME type setting: 1) Browser Plug-in>MIME Settings and 2) File Type Associations>File Types.

makin' ya'll work to see the girlies.

i'll next make "confessions of japanese strippers" and encode it with the Yak Butter codec!


the yak butter codec only works in inner mongolia
running on Commodore 64s

cheers!

[Taro Toporific]

i'll next make "confessions of japanese strippers" and encode it with the Yak Butter codec!

Heartless bastard.

Damn it guys. Mr. Sparkle literally "wrote the book" and he's still having problems serving a simple mpg4 video. What hope is there for the-rest-of-us? I might as well stick to Crayons and animated GIFs.

[mr. sparkle]

Hello Senor Pongi,

How's the weather in SW Tokyo today. Here in SF we are having a nice little heatwave.

Well, maybe but IMHO I think that the problem is spelled "B-I-L-L G-A-T-E-S" and, as you know, he didn't write the book he wrote the closed source code.

Bill and Steve don't like each other, so they often throw dirt clods at each other.

i'll next make "confessions of japanese strippers" and encode it with the Yak Butter codec!

Heartless bastard.

heh heh, just kiddin' UG. i have "gets" access to the pongi vault and will continue to unleash the hidden pongi for all to experience. at least until i am gainfully employed. it's fun just to edit again as I've been writing for so long...


the pongi vault

The NK stuff is funny and all, but I'm with Frost, I like the interviews and silliness on the street the best. I'll keep hackin' at those.

The feeling I got back about 4 years ago when watching the uncut VHS tapes with my friends was as if I was there with Rob, experiencing this weird version of "Insomniac".

Have you guys seen "Insomniac" in Japan? It's like Rob Pongi, but "different". Maybe you can rent his "uncensored" DVD in Japan. Look for it or get it on Amazon. He's hilarious--he does this "all night long party to the blue sky" show (rob's premise as well) in a different weird place every week.

There are some clips here.


dave attell - pongi in search of a helmet

Mr. Sparkle literally "wrote the book" and he's still having problems serving a simple mpg4 video. What hope is there for the-rest-of-us?

I IS a video editor zen buddha master 6 times over.

I ain't anything beyond a web video simpleton.


i slice - i dice - like a mofo'

I use sorenson squeeze. I drag 'n drop the QT movie into a window and hit the GO button for 320 X 240 MPEG 4. That's about as much as I want to worry about it.

Beyond 'dat - it is a Windoze thang--for PC and QT, you'll have to lash everything together with spit and gum. IOW, download QT and set your browser to accept QT MPEG 4.

Bill ain't gonna do that for you--it is he that is the heartless bastard. I'm a simple mac man - I'm sorry that QT is such a pain for ya'll. In PCs, you really have to force QT to work. If you don't wanna go through the pain - then it's back to crayolas I guess!

[Kanchou]

Ever since I saw the Amsterdam episode of Insomniac, I thought Dave needs to make a show in Tokyo... hehe

[mr. sparkle]

Ever since I saw the Amsterdam episode of Insomniac, I thought Dave needs to make a show in Tokyo... hehe

I just emailed him with that idea saying he should hook up with the pongi and the FG crew. (really!)

the best things about the amsterdam episode were the "Wheel of the Seven Deadly Sins" where you could spin and then Dave would go off and experience "Sloth" or whatever. The other big laugh was when they couldn't show Dave smokin' the bong, but cut back to him when he was hackin' his brain off - then he goes into this dream sequence and follows a milk maid into the field. She turns around and has ATTELL'S FACE -

NOOOOOOOOO!!

That was freakin' hilarious!


let's beer drinkin' with attell in the 'dam

Cheers,

[stolid_revenge]

quite hilarious when girl on left asks "Where are you from?" RobPongi replies "I'm from London"

that's pretty chill yo

[mr. sparkle]

quite hilarious when girl on left asks "Where are you from?" RobPongi replies "I'm from London"

that's pretty chill yo

It's even better when he goes,


"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!"

at full pongi volume - which is LOUD.

and they start applauding...

would you all like to see more cute girls being interviewed with rob?

i may give you the "lecherous dane" - being interviewed by miss emi. he's quite the piece of work.

[Unspoken]

It's clips like this that make me regret not sticking around robpongi.com after initially stumbling across it via the Tito Ortiz interview.

Of course I know better now--all it took was a few seconds of on-screen Jen and Rob action to change my mind--but I've got to ask: how hard was it keeping a straight face while claiming to be from London?

That was just good stuff.

[Alcazar]

I like it when Rob is yelling 'God save the Quuuueeeen!!', and 'There ain't no futuuuuure!!!!!' to prove he's 'from London' - and the cute J-girl gets all excited because she actually believes him!

[Big Booger]

I like it when Rob is yelling 'God save the Quuuueeeen!!', and 'There ain't no futuuuuure!!!!!' to prove he's 'from London' - and the cute J-girl gets all excited because she actually believes him!

I think that was the climatic moment, where Rob robbed them of their true Brit man.. Notice how he slipped the "What's your Phone Number?" in LOL

A pimp if I have ever heard one in my lifetime, Rob is.