Well that’s it. Finally, after 3 weeks of living out of our suitcases, 1000s of miles driven and flown, 1000s of wonderful faces, from the hot to the cold, from reading bingo numbers to eating at Obama’s favorite restaurant, we are BACK! It was an incredibly memorable tour, made possible by YOU!
Something came to my attention though, a lot of people wonder what we do when we go to these schools. All of our past tour videos are about our travels, but I guess unless you’ve been to one of our events, you have no idea what happens when we “take the stage”, especially since we don’t sing or dance or do cool stuff like that.
Part of me doesn’t wanna expose what happens, it’ll give you more incentive to go to an event to see for yourself, but I guess I can share a little…
Ok, it’s not really that much of a secret for those who are true sleuths. A lot of people in the audience at these various events upload their video clips of  the show. I did a quick search and these came up. The above one is pretty good because they subtitled it (eprops), and it’s from our show at Univ. Washington.
So yes…we don’t sing or dance…but what we do is…talk. yay. Talk about how we started, what we’re up to, how we work and what’s ahead. talk. Ok that’s not it. I suppose the “main event” is when we screen various new/unreleased work. Some stuff that might never get put online, some stuff just prescreened early (ie we’ve already shown David Choi’s new music video on the road). The most fun part of the events though, is when we do Q&A. We don’t like talking AT ppl, it’s more fun talking WITH them.
This person uploaded a good chunk of our talk at Univ. Michigan.
Things don’t always work technically either. Here’s us having some issues w/ the microphone. In the past, messed up projectors, computers, security have all made for stressful, but memorable shows.
Here’s a well put together piece from our event at UC Davis by Nicki Sun of AGTV. Wow, with clips like this, I don’t even have to make tour videos anymore!
And finally, for reading this far… I can’t believe I’m gonna share this, but you earned it. During the Q&A at UC Davis it was requested that I do the WonderGirls “Tell Me” dance. I immediately refused…but the audience wouldn’t settle. I gave in, tho I don’t know the dance, but I did what I could…and of course I wasn’t going to do it alone, so I brought some ppl down. Enjoy.
Well there you have it. A quick idea of what happens during our events. They’re not always so crazy with 500 ppl, sometimes it’s 200, sometimes 50. The smaller events have their perks too…because then you don’t hafta wait in lines like this to get in. (from UW)
In anycase, no matter how big or small the event, we just love going out to meet all the special people who make Wong Fu Productions what it really is. Without your support we are nothing and we are so grateful! Thank you Univ. Michigan, UC Davis, Humboldt St., Oregon St., Univ. Washington, Univ. Oregon, Pacific, and Univ. Chicago!!! We had a blast. And to everyone else, hope these clips didn’t spoil anything and you’ll come out to a future show!
We’re back and there’s sooo much ahead! watchoutnow!
*photos courtesy of Andrew Wong
May 1, 2009 at 12:23 am
What does “props” mean exactly? Can’t find it in any dictionnary, and I see it so much on this blog…
April 30, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I’ve been to two of your events, and despite that, these videos were really fun to watch. The interactive presentations are cool, they’re always different, and the organizers come up with creative activities. So, these clips spoil nothing.
April 30, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Haha, wow! In the UCD video, the evironmental girl talked in that mini-interview.
She sure does love the environment.
April 30, 2009 at 12:19 am
hahahaha i even know the tell me dance and im not asian lol
btw you guys are getting better and better with your events, props
-gville love
April 29, 2009 at 9:30 pm
yay st. louis! haha i go to st. louis university, and i was sitting in the row right in front of you at university of michigan. you guys were the highlight of MAASU =)
April 29, 2009 at 9:22 pm
YAY! thanks for using my pictures even though they were horriable! You guys are awesome i hope you guys can come back to Seattle again!
April 29, 2009 at 8:46 pm
That AGTV one was awesome. Especially the ending.
“Woooo! I loooove you! Yoooooou! No, but really, I do.”
April 29, 2009 at 4:23 am
haha ted. youdubbb! wootwoot. i’m excited for the next ISA concert since i missed the very first one :]
April 29, 2009 at 2:44 am
Man, that line at UW makes me really happy and grateful that I live in Oregon.
April 29, 2009 at 12:38 am
Well that was embarrassing
April 28, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Sounds exciting, hopefully I’ll get to go to one sometime in the near future. Kudos for completing another tour. =D
April 28, 2009 at 11:57 pm
aw the next ISA concert is in LA? I’ll try to go to that one. But glad to hear that you guys had fun on your tour. It looks really entertaining from what I saw on the videos.
April 28, 2009 at 11:50 pm
haha man the UCDavis one was awesome!
congrats on another successful tour guys!