Houston Man Pops the Big Question with Graffiti
Video goes viral online
Wednesday, 14 Jul 2010
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HOUSTON - When you’re confident the girl will say “yes,” you can use the side of an auto parts store to pop the big question.
On Friday, Shannon Reiswig of Houston carried out his plan to ask his girlfriend, Jessica, to take his hand in marriage. It involved paint, an artist, and a filmmaker.
“Both me and Jessica like street art a lot,” said Reiswig. “We are both photographers, and we follow street artists in town. I thought I would get a hold of a couple friends and see if they could help me out.”
Reiswig asked Houston-based graffiti artist Ack! to paint a colorful proposal on the side of a business in midtown, and he asked filmmaker Alex Luster to capture the big moment as Jessica was lured to the wall.
While the entire setup took a day, it only took Jessica a few seconds to mark “yes” on the piece of art.
“She was excited,” said Reiswig. “She was shaking and nervous about the whole situation, especially since Alex was videoing it, but she was really thrilled about it.”
Luster then turned the day-long project into an 81-second video and uploaded it to Vimeo.com on Sunday night.
“I thought it’d get a couple hundred hits online -- no big deal,” said Luster. “That next morning it just blew up. It went wild. It started getting few hundred comments and then emails and then text messages.”
By Wednesday morning, the video had already reached over 40,000 views on Vimeo.com. While Luster says response to the film has been great, he says the new fiancés are the ones getting the real attention.
“They are happy. That’s what matters to me, but I don’t mind it going viral either,” said Luster. “When I did it, I just did it to make something for them to preserve that memory.”
(In case you’re wondering, yes, the auto parts store gave them permission to use the brick wall.)
Ben - The video of the art being created, and the results, is too adorable to be missed. SEE IT HERE!
