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Expeditions

Ryan and the Musical Mines

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

 

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“In Your Dreams” performed by hardcore hippies
 

The all-new Mexico season of Expeditions begins! For this first Mexican episode, I decided to solve David’s mission to “spend 2 hours underground in an interesting environment. After all, my new home in Mexico is built right on an old network of silver mines. Of course, the mines were closed decades ago, but there’s something ELSE going on down there.

This episode was weird because there were problems with the audio, so I had to redub all of my narration. Luckily, I had all that practice when I was doing voice-overs for Bollywood. (A mission that was solved but didn’t make it into an episode.) Anyway, there’s tons more awesome Mexico adventures to come. Next week, I’ll be reporting on the floods down in Tabasco. Other upcoming missions include fighting a luchador, riding a live bull, and bodyguarding baby sea turtles!

  

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(Q) So what is this show all about?
That's for you to decide! My viewers send me missions, and I travel the world solving them. They can be specific missions, vague missions, dangerous missions, ridiculous missions, whatever you can dream up. So far I've had to kiss a rat, hike through the Himalayas, interview a bandit, hang out at a leper colony, and many other things I'd never thought I'd find myself doing. So if you'd like to send me on a mission, e-mail me at the address in the sidebar, leave a message on the 24 Hour Adventure Hotline at 1(626)593-RYAN, or leave me a video response on youTube.

(Q) What exactly are your qualifications as an 'international adventurer'?
Thus far I've been a student in America, an undocumented animator in Canada, an ambassador to Australia, a teacher in Korea, homeless in Japan, a tsunami volunteer in Thailand, a backpacker in Malaysia, a tourist in Singapore, an illegal immigrant in Burma, an explorer in Cambodia, and a call center QA in India. Along the way I've been in typhoons, monsoons, tornadoes, coups, riots, and I'm ready for whatever else the world can throw at me.

(Q) Why is your show sideways?
Since The Ryan Estrada Expeditions is distributed online, I realized I could make the movie file any size or shape I wanted! So I decided to try something a little different, turn my camera on it's side, and get a different point of view of the world.
If you download the iPod version, however, you'll notice that the entire movie file is sideways. Just turn your iPod sideways! This is so that you you can see the episode as large as possible, without black bars on each side.

See the rest of my work at ryanestrada.com