Damn the Flip Flops! starring Ed Shepp

This video was shot in 2003 on a camera in video mode. Although they only shot 3 minutes of footage mid-way into the shoot, this was back in the olden days when cameras couldn't record very long. The footage sat on a cd for two and a half years, until Corey Smith hijacked it from Ed Shepp and was edited in a night. The footage is sculpted to the sonnd experiment "Damn the Flip Flops!" by Ed Shepp, off his album "Images of Rapture from the Boggle Woggle". The song tells of the time Ed was with his friend, Mark Baratelli, at an Eckerd in Tallahassee, FL (this one: http://www.platial.com/place/5 0453?title=Eckerd. Mark had the option in a $.50 store to purchase either a pair of flip flops or a candy bar. He picked the flip flops, and within a few minutes, walking in them, they boke apart, and Mark, in a large crowd, cursed, "Damn the flip flops!". Ed never forgot those words, and then made the song you hear in the video. Ed creates poems, skits, and sound pieces with his voice and rabid imagineation.

ED'S MUSIC: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=15366

ED'S BLOG: http://edshepp.blogspot.com/

COREY SMITH'S SITE: http://homepage.mac.com/smithcorey/

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Music

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[therealgdot]

This video doesn't get nearly enough attention.

[reachforthelasers]

Ed it's FIERCE! I absolutely love it. Ahh, this brings back such fond memories of college.

[reachforthelasers]

Ed it's FIERCE! I absolutely love it. Ahh, this brings back such fond memories of our college days. :p

[ultraboy3000]

Ed it's FIERCE! I absolutely love it. Ahh, this brings back such fond memories of our college days. :p

[ultraboy3000]

Ed it's FIERCE! I absolutely love it. Ahh, this brings back such fond memories of college.

[improvcabaret]

The video is awesome!!! This is <a href="http://www.myspace.com/m­arkbaratelli">Mark Baratelli</a>. I uttered the words.

[edshepp]

I am Ed Shepp, hear me beep. The original incident that inspired the movie happened in an Eckerd in Tallahassee, FL (this one: http://www.platial.com/place/5­0453?title=Eckerd+Drugs). And actually, it was Mark Baratelli who uttered the famous words. I was with him at the time. I never forgot the incident, and then made it into the film, and then months later it became the song. Years later Corey sync'd the music to the video, and here we are. Beep!