Fotografo de Bodas, Santiago

January 29, 2009

First of all, George, you win a 12X18 inch photo of your choice, so email me: kylehepp at gmail dot com. Congrats, and thanks for the great suggestion! He was the first person to suggest La Piojera, which was one of the places we ended up going.

Today was my big day with Shira Lazar for the Travel Channel. She’ll be covering the whole trip for another website as well, so if you just can’t wait to see what the TC special, “Confessions of a Travel Channel,” is all about, you can check out her impressions of her first time in South America over at Jaunted.

I vlogged about the day above, but in case you’re at work or something, let me just sum it up for you: Filming something that’s sort of reality TV but not really, is WEIRD. Shira and I would have a conversation and then someone would be like “Wait, actually can you go stand over there in front of that tree and do that exact conversation again?”

I had a mic on me pretty much the entire time and they filmed for the whole afternoon that we were together, but the show is 7 days worth of footage cut down into an hour, so I’m not sure the odds that you’ll actually see any of me on TV are very good. However, it airs in June. Someone will have to tape it for me and let me know!

We went to la Iglesia San Francisco and Barrio Paris/Londres, not necessarily because they’re the coolest places in the world, but mostly because I wanted to be able to explain a little bit about the Catholic church’s influence on the country as well as the dictatorship.

Then we hit up la Piojera for a terremoto. We got a standing ovation when we walked in the bar, then the cameras which had been filming us from outside came in and the crowd got even rowdier. There were 2 camera men with a TON of equipment, a producer, a coordinator and a driver with us so we were quite a spectacle. We got hit on by a wasted guy who told us he was a painter and wanted to make art with us. Shira was curious as to why so many people were wasted by 5pm on a Thursday afternoon, so I got to explain yet another side of Chilean culture to her.

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haha cute. i like it and i’m really anxious to see it. june seems like foreeever. my boyfriend was filmed for a chilean program back in june that was supposed to come out in december, and just now i realize december came and went and i never saw it.

soooo…time flies!! remind us!

oh p.s. my cousin was talking about that. she was invited to the bachelor or bachelorette wedding (pick one those of you that watch tv. i dont remember who got married), and was saying similar things about reality tv. weird right? i dunno if i buy that lauren conrads is really the same though.

Comment by lydia — January 29, 2009 @ 5:21 pm

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I like how on your reality show there’s someone trying to get past you to clean up the kitchen… Didn’t bother retaking that, huh?

Comment by anxietyneurosis — January 29, 2009 @ 5:55 pm

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Hahaha. I love that to talk about being on TV you posted a video. Love the parallelness.

Comment by Clare — January 29, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

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agreed with anxietyneuorsis, I like the nana passing by. haha

how cool to buzz around stgo with the travel channel. I hope you get on tv!!! jejeje. You definitely deserve it after putting up with Chile for so long. hahaha

Comment by Maeskizzle — January 29, 2009 @ 7:00 pm

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Your experience sounds exactly like mine when they filmed me at Ben and Jerry’s. We were all sitting around eating ice cream and chatting while they were filming us and then they would say, “Hey, actually could you say that again and then lick your spoon?” And then we each had little interviews and we would say something, and the girl would say “okay, could you say that again but using these words?” It sounds like you had a great time!

Comment by Abby — January 29, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

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Yeah, I like the cameo too! It made me laugh! You should start a YouTube channel and vlog ALL the time. It makes me feel like you’re here talking to me. Kthxbye!

Comment by EvilJoy — January 29, 2009 @ 8:43 pm

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DEar my famous KYLE. YAY!

I am so looking forward to your debut. I do not have cable but I will make my mom tape it for me! )

<3

Comment by Amanda — January 29, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

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Gah! So amazing seeing you in your vlog I miss youuuuuuuuuu. So awesome about this possible TV debut, plus sounds like a sweet day you all had. I never ended up having a terremoto at la piojera, sadness. meanwhile im battling the flu in good ol us of a.

Comment by Emita — January 29, 2009 @ 10:10 pm

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Yeah, when we were filmed for “Tiempo Limite” (side note: they have bad ratings, so our episode got cut, sadness) they’d do things like that. They also would show the clock counting down our supposed time limit, then turn off the cameras and go “ok, just take however much time you feel like” and turn them back on right before time was up. Lies.

I’ve never been to La Piojera either…maybe it should go on my list of cultural things I haven’t done yet!

Comment by Emily — January 30, 2009 @ 6:22 am

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that’s so cool! i can’t wait to see the show. hope you enjoyed your doritos, haha!

Comment by Isabel — January 30, 2009 @ 8:58 am

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Ha, ha! Not only a vlog, but a drunk vlog. Too funny! Maybe you didn’t even realize nana walked by.

The whole thing is just way cool. I’ll be watching for it to air. It sounds like an interesting show all around. Congrats, what fun!

Comment by Lori - Blondie in Brazil — January 30, 2009 @ 10:36 am

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Woohoo! Be sure to remind us again in June too.

Comment by Ordinary Girl — January 30, 2009 @ 1:17 pm

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awesome awesome AWESOME!!!!

I am so happy for you and i love you little kyle voice.

can’t wait to see it.

Comment by amy b — January 30, 2009 @ 2:34 pm

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wow, that is so cool! good for you.

nana in uniform!

Comment by kumichan83 — January 30, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

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I loved the video! Miss you!

Comment by Melissa — February 5, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

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