Lauren had the idea for this adventure. Kool-Aid dust and pickles, together, in the same mouth. What a great combination! Like fries and a Frosty, right?
Kinda.
Not really.
The Setup
There is no setup. That is the whole thing. A jar of pickles, a bowl of Kool-Aid powder, a kitchen table in a College Station apartment, and about six people who were all going to have to try one because the camera was already running and nobody wanted to be the one who did not.
The reactions do most of the work. One friend hates pickles on a normal day and had to go anyway. Somebody threatens to vomit and I promise to get it on video, and then we both agree that would be extremely cool and we should try to make it happen, which tells you roughly everything about the standard of decision making in that apartment in 2010.
Why This Is Still Up
Now, I want to be straight with you about what this is, because you have probably arrived here from a camera review and are wondering what happened.
This is the oldest thing on this entire site. It is a handheld camcorder, in a dim apartment, at night, with no lights, no plan, no script, and no reason. The footage is soft and noisy and half of it is somebody’s elbow. There is not a single technique in it that I would teach you.
And I have deliberately never taken it down, because this is what the bottom of the ladder actually looks like.
Whenever somebody messages me saying they want to start making videos but their gear is bad and their footage looks like nothing, this is the video I think about. Everybody’s first hundred videos are somebody’s elbow. The difference between the people who end up good at this and the people who do not is almost never the camera, and it is almost always that one group kept pointing it at things and the other group waited until they were ready. I was not ready. I filmed my friends eating a pickle covered in grape powder.
Start where you are. It gets better, and it gets better faster than you think, and nobody is grading the early ones.