Behind the Scenes of National Geographic

In the summer of 2011, I published a post about my boys.  In the post, was a picture that Nathan and his crew took while they were doing some scouting for a film they were working on.  I had mentioned in that post that there was a story behind this picture… and yes there was;  They took the picture and did a little "editing" to it as a joke; inspired by a "girlfriend" of one of the Guys. She was worried about the bears that they might encounter while scouting in the mountains of Colorado. Now I understand her worries…"bears happen" in Colorado, so we weren't laughing at her concerns, but were just full of fun and  there were many jokes about "those bears" that kept us all laughing; I'm sure we all remember the jokes about the "pepper spray" that was offered as a solution to that bear problem, but the final joke the guys came up with, was this picture.  I love the picture.  It is really fun isn't it?

Nathan put the picture on his Facebook, and I think the other guys probably did as well.  I snagged the picture from Nathan's Facebook and put it on my blog.  I also pinned it on Pinterest onto my "Funnies" board. Within a few months of that pin,  I started getting all kinds of traffic to that post from a travel blog in France. They had the picture with the caption in French, saying something like "you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than your friend". Soon after that, the picture was all over the internet, with captions like the title of this post.  It got funnier and funnier to see it coming and going. The conversations about the pictures that evolved were a marvel. People would say "how foolish these guys were", and how "it couldn't be real because of this or that". It was never intended to go out as a "real" picture, but it seemed to gain momentum for the debate as to whether it was "real" or not  as it got passed around.  Nathan and Himilce recently posted this article on their Facebook pages; The article was pronouncing it a "Fake".  It is a good article written by Matt Novak on factually.gizmodo.com, and really added to the fun when it had to be debunked in this way.  Our friend Tim Sparks the redhead on the back right was able to set the record straight in an e-mail with Matt Novak for the article.

http://factually.gizmodo.com/behind-the-scenes-of-behind-the-scenes-at-national-geo-1679697812/+megneal

A great story don't you think?  The article tells you who is who, but let me just say this; Nathan is the guy in the right in front; He's my boy.  That gives me a little button popping privileges don't you think?  You can go back to that first post that I posted this on and read a few more of the details and see a few more of the pics from this story…. mostly from a "mother's" perspective about boys, life and the empty nest etc, then be sure to click on the link above and read about this "Fake".. and check out the Godzilla version, you'll love it.

            Have a great weekend everyone.

A joyful heart is good medicine,

but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22