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1,593,803 — and counting. that’s how many views You-tube sensation and student ricky Dillon has racked up on his “Some Nights” by Fun. mu-sic video.

Dillon, junior in radio, tele-vision and film, has been mak-ing videos for as long as he can remember.

“I’ve pretty much made vid-eos my whole life,” he said. “We have old home videos of me making fake commercials and stuff, so I’ve always loved mak-ing them.”

Originally, Dillon was a pre-pharmacy major, but switched to rtVF during his freshman year.

“My Youtube channel start-ed picking up my freshman year here, and I realized may-be I should change majors be-cause I like this so much, and I really didn’t care that much about pharmacy,” he said.

He started his channel along with friend and Univer-sity of Alabama student Shel-by Waddell. Dillon said at first

they created the channel to make funny videos.

“I was watching other You-tubers, and I liked what they did, so I kind of wanted to be more like them and make mu-sic videos, skits and a vlog,” he said. “My first real one was probably my music video to ‘Move Along’ by All-American rejects, which was about two years ago.”

Dillon said he first received global attention after audi-tioning for and making a You-tube collaborative channel, in which people are all on one channel and make videos to-gether.

“My free time is Youtube,” Dillon said. “I like it that much.”

He has a mini series on his channel “I Dare ricky,” in which fans post comments on previous videos and dare him to do something outrageous.

“I pick the dares that are the best and the funniest, and I do them,” Dillon said. “My last video I did public dancing and barking at people.”

He is no longer self-con-

scious about performing the various dares in public.

“I’ve done a lot now, and af-ter you do the first thing, it gets really fun and your adrenaline starts to pump; I get into a mindset where I just don’t care because I know the video will be good if I just don’t care,” Dil-lon said.

Many of Dillon’s videos are music videos based on popu-lar songs that he creatively ed-its. One in particular is a mu-sic video to “Gangnam Style” by Psy, which features Dillon dressed up in a SpongeBob outfit and dancing in public places.

Others are videos to “One More Night” by Maroon 5, “ev-erybody talks” by Neon trees, “Die Young” by Ke$ha, and many more.

Some of his short skit videos include “20 things to do where you’re bored,” “Pick-up lines gone wrong,” “10 things not to say to a girl” and “10 things I hate.”

the whole process, from filming to editing, can be time consuming. Dillon said film-

ing can take anywhere from an hour to all day, depending on the video.

“They take a while to edit, I’m not going to lie,” he said. “But it’s fun and I love doing it.”

Dillon said it takes about

10 hours to edit a music vid-eo, but only a few hours to edit if it’s a simple video such as a skit.

He plans to move to Los An-geles after graduation with Youtube friend Connor Fran-

ta and pursue film there.Dillon uploads a new video

to his channel every Sunday. His Youtube channel is

youtube.com/PICKLeandBA-NANA and his twitter handle is twitter.com/rickPickle.

YouTube star Ricky Dillon keeps dancing, people keep watching

Lane Jones / IntrIgue reporter

AU Underground: the ‘secret’ tunnel

KatherIne mccahey / photographer

ricky Dillon, junior in rtVF, has more than one million hits on his “some nights” by Fun. music video.

Nathan Simone ONLINe eDItOr

We all know life is beautiful above ground on the Plains, but what happens down below?

Student legend has trickled down through the years to create a shadowy mystique around a system of water drainage pipes and utility tunnels that form a network underneath cam-pus.

According to student explorers, the main en-trance to the tunnel system is located in the ditch on the front left side of the Beard-eaves Coliseum parking lot, now surrounded by a green construction fence.

General knowledge of the underground sys-tem may be more common than students think, taking the nickname of AU Underground.

“Sure I’ve heard of AU Underground,” said ricky Schulerere, junior in microbiology. “I’ve had a couple of friends go down there and ex-plore. I’ve always wanted to go.”

Not only is the entrance easy to locate in times of non-construction, but testimonies say

the tunnel continues to be large enough to walk upright in for the majority of its stretch.

It’s understood the University does not want students trying to find areas like this, at risk of injuring themselves or others, but denial of the tunnels seems to be a part of answering phones at the Foy Information Desk.

Answers received from students working the Foy Desk have included: “I don’t know,” “It’s not there/doesn’t exist,” “Don’t go down there” and “It’s definitely there, but you’ll get in trouble if you go down.”

However, a student at the Foy Desk who wished to remain anonymous confirmed that the tunnels do exist and are sometimes used as unusual transportation.

“They definitely exist,” the student said. “I had a friend who went down there a bunch of times and mapped it out precisely on graph pa-per. You can go a bunch of different places.”

rumored places to appear include near Momma Goldberg’s on the corner of Donahue Drive and Magnolia Avenue.

Thomas Harbin, senior in Spanish and piano performance, said he has explored the tunnel system and can say with complete confidence that it does exist.

“I’ve been down there a couple times,” Harbin said. “At first I tried calling the Foy Desk to find out where it was, but they wouldn’t admit it. Not true! After calling around town, I got some leads and found it.”

Harbin commented on the many side tun-nels the main tunnel has.

“One time, my friends and I came out inside the gates at Jordan-Hare Stadium, but we didn’t go in because we didn’t want to get in trouble.” Harbin said. “We kept walking and eventually came out again outside of tichenor Hall.”

Harbin said he thinks Auburn students should document and inform each other about the tunnels.

“I think that Auburn students should make a map,” Harbin said. “That would be helpful to everyone.”

Auburn alumnus Scott Seitz said he has

friends who entered the tunnel and got in trou-ble with the law.

“From what my friends have told me, it total-ly exists,” Seitz said. “I can’t believe there’s even any doubt about it. But you will get in trouble if you’re caught.”

Students may not be the only occupants of the tunnel if they should decide to explore.

“I’ve been told that there’s a lot of rats down there,” Seitz said. “It also probably smells pret-ty bad, but you could expect that from a glori-fied drainage pipe.”

However, Seitz said the tunnel is probably not as mysterious or foreboding as students may hear in rumors.

“I’m sure that every campus has a system of drainage pipes, even quite large ones, under-ground,” Seitz said. “That’s just modern con-struction. It’s not some secret underground passageway like some people think.”

Next time you see a pair of eyes peeking out from beneath a sewer grate, remember the Plains extend much farther than meets the eye.

Intrigue B6 The Auburn Plainsman Thursday, November 29, 2012

Foot-stompin’ Lonely Wolves keep howling around Auburn

Courtesy of ryan russell

Matt Pike (left) and Kyle Humphrey of lonely Wolves will be playing at the Gnu’s room friday, Jan. 18.

Earl ParsonsWriTEr

Kyle Humphrey, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of local Auburn band Lonely Wolves, began recording music in a spare bed-room in his house about a year ago.

Shortly after, drummer and longtime friend Matt Pike caught wind of these recordings through the online videos Humphrey had be-gun to post.

“He had this blues-y rock, raw feel to it,” Pike said. “i told him that i really liked the stuff he was playing and wanted to know if he wanted to get together and try to jam some of it out and see what we could do with it and where we could take it.”

Bringing similar musical styles into the band, Humphrey’s and Pike’s motives for cre-ating music did not seem to differ too far from each other.

“i started this project because i love blues music,” Humphrey said. “Everybody tells me i’m like an old soul.”

Drawing numerous comparisons to The Black Keys, the two-piece rock ‘n’ roll, blues-in-fused band has drawn its influences from clas-sic rock and blues legends.

“My father raised me on Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, so the influences go anywhere from classic rock to blues,” Humphrey said. “Even new stuff like The Black Keys and The White Stripes.”

Although he incorporates many similar in-fluences into the band, Pike brings an influ-ence of his own to the table.

“i’m a huge Black Crowes fan,” Pike said. “it’s just something about that real gritty Southern rock that they bring. i would say that they are the biggest influence for me as far as my style and the way i play.”

After a few months of practicing together, Lonely Wolves played its first show at a house party in Auburn.

“We’ve always liked house parties more be-cause there is a little more intimacy within the audience and the band, and you can be a little bit wilder,” Humphrey said. “if i had to pick be-tween playing at a bar and getting paid a hun-dred bucks or just having a good time playing at a house party, i’d take a good time any day because i always feel better after those shows.”

Pike agrees with Humphrey’s philosophy on performing at house parties.

“You’re right there in the center of it all,” Pike said. “You feel like everybody around you is able to feed off of what you’re doing. it makes for a great experience in my eyes. As long as someone is tapping their foot or bobbing their

head — that’s what gets me going right there. Seeing people who really get into it and enjoy it when you’re up close and personal with them like that.”

Since then, they have continued to bring their talents to house parties, as well as local Auburn and Opelika venues, including Blood-hound, Eighth & rail, Overall Company, The railyard and The irish Bred Pub.

A live Lonely Wolves show promises to pro-vide a loud, energetic and fast-paced perfor-mance.

“Expect to move around,” Humphrey said. “We hope that once the show starts, we build on that movement and people will start to move around more. i just try to make sure ev-erybody’s having a good time.”

A Lonely Wolves first-timer can expect to see an on-stage chemistry between him and Humphrey, Pike said.

“There may be times we decide we want to take a song and go somewhere with it that we wouldn’t have at shows before,” Pike said.

Both Humphrey and Pike said they are more than content with the past and present direc-tion of the band, but are both anxious to take further steps in the future.

Humphrey showed interest in taking the two-piece act outside of the state.

“We haven’t played a show outside of Ala-bama, so we need to venture out,” Humphrey said. “it is fun playing in front of crowds that don’t know you because there are a little less nerves. You are able to hone in on your skills and what you practice without worrying about what the people are thinking about you.”

Humphrey and Pike agreed the next step for the band needs to be recording their own ma-terial.

“We really want to get some stuff recorded and get it out to people,” Pike said. “We’ve had a lot of interest in actually having physical copies of the music, so we are pushing really hard to do some of that over the next six months or so.”

Although not sure when the right opportu-nity to record will present itself, both Hum-phrey and Pike are eager to take full advantage of it when it arises.

“We don’t have anything recorded and we are so eager to do that with somebody who knows what they’re doing,” Humphrey said. “i feel like a lot of it is that you’ve got to know somebody, which is fine, it’s just that we are new to this and haven’t been thrown into the crowd of people that do that yet.”

Lonely Wolves shows no intention of slow-ing the rate of its live concert performances.

“As far as the shows go, we are taking them

as they come and even booking some our-selves,” Pike said. “There are possible plans for a weekend tour with an artist out of Nashville; really any chance that we get to play a show, we are all ears for it.”

its next show is taking place Friday, Jan. 18 at The Gnu’s room.

“We’ll be loud for that show, but it will be fun because we’re always playing at parties or bars, and this will be the first time i think people will actually sit down to listen to our music,” Hum-phrey said. “i think it will be a great opportu-

nity to give people that real intimate look into what we are trying to do.”

Lonely Wolves is optimistic for what the fu-ture holds and seems to be enjoying every step along the way.

“As far as this band goes, i am definitely hav-ing the time of my life,” Pike said. “We’re just two laid-back guys that really enjoy what we do, and we hope people enjoy it when they’re watching us.”

For the latest news on the band’s upcoming shows, visit Facebook.com/LNLYWLVS.

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The guy that brought Bill NyeFrom sold-out tickets to a venue upgrade,

UPC’s Ricky Scheuerle gained much success through bringing Bill Nye to

Auburn — and he’s not stopping there.

New Media Club puts Dead? Wait!’s music into motion

courtesy of alessio summerfield the New media club is directing a claymation video for dead?Wait! and H.y.d.r.a.’s collaborative eP.

Caitlin WagenseilWriTer

Members of The New Me-dia Club at Auburn are try-ing their hand at a different, more tedious type of anima-tion – claymation.

“Dead?Wait! and H.Y.D.r.A made a collaborative eP called ‘Do you hate it yet?’ and H.Y.D.r.A did the song, but Dead?Wait! was involved with it,” said Charlie Harp-er, member of The New Me-dia Club and senior in radio, television and film and mar-keting.

The characters for the mu-sic video are made out of clay, and then pictures are taken of each character in different positions so when they’re ed-ited together, it appears that the clay figures are moving.

“The music video isn’t just claymation,” Harper said. “We’ve workshopped the idea a little bit now, and we’re putting live-action stuff in there just to make it more unique.”

The storyline for the music video involves a koala bear going to school and getting beat up by another animal.

“it’s very violent and very gory,” said Derek Herscovia, New Media Club member

and junior in journalism.Creating a claymation vid-

eo requires a lot of setting up and can be a tedious process.

“You move (the clay fig-ure) and you take a picture,” Harper said. “it varies each picture, but you probably take about 10 or 15 pictures a second, so you end up hav-ing thousands of pictures for a couple of minutes.”

Herscovia said the video is still in production.

“The story is pretty much figured out, but we’re build-ing the sets and figuring out the shots because clayma-tion is a very exacting thing and you have to have all the characters move a certain way,” Herscovia said.

Herscovia said building the sets and the characters took the longest to do.

“We’ve built the sets and we’re almost done with that, and i’ve started to make the main character,” Harper said.

Harper said he is familiar with claymation videos.

“When you’re doing the whole thing by yourself, it kind of wears on you,” he said. “You can be working on it for hours and think you got a lot done and then upload it and think ‘wow i did about 10

seconds.’”Harper said he vowed not

to make the finished product public because he was em-barrassed by it.

Yet after working on a short film over the summer with president of The New Media Club Alessio Sum-merfield, he had a change of mind.

“i figured i would show some people and lighten the mood and they all loved it, and (Summerfield) talked to me about making a music video,” Harper said.

He said he thought this claymation video would be much easier to make because other people were helping out.

Along with the actual mu-sic video, there will also be a short documentary. Brock Hanson, vice president of The New Media Club, will be documenting the process.

The New Media Club will put on an independent film festival at The Gnu’s room in April where the claymation music video will be shown.

“We’re trying to have it fin-ished at least by January or February so we have time to edit and then show it at the film festival,” Harper said.

Nathan SimoneONliNe eDiTOr

Simply put, ricky Scheuer-le wants change.

As director of speakers and comedians for UPC, Scheuer-le was responsible for book-ing the wildly popular Bill Nye for a speaking event in the Auburn Arena Thursdfay, Nov. 1.

The junior in microbiolo-gy said he enjoyed being able to help plan the event and meet a childhood idol, down to creating the music playl-ist played before Nye walked onstage. Upon meeting Nye, Scheuerle said he felt noth-ing but awe.

Described by some stu-dents as a “mover and shak-er” within UPC, Scheuerle sticks with one motto.

“Always be relevant,” Scheuerle said. “That’s what we try to go for.”

Bringing Nye to campus was seen as a revival in what Scheuerle thought was an un-fortunate record of not being able to book the best speak-ers possible.

“i’m very happy to say that there is a positive change oc-curring in the speakers and comedians section of UPC right now,” Scheuerle said. “Bill Nye was a groundbreak-er, so now there’s a prece-dent to bring bigger and bet-ter speakers here. i want the same anticipation and hype that is afforded to the spring and fall concerts to apply to speakers and speaking events.”

Scheuerle’s interest in UPC began freshman year as a way to get involved when he came

to Auburn from Austin, Tex-as, but by sophomore year he was on the Tiger Nights com-mittee and looking to con-tribute other ways.

“i wanted to bring large-scale entertainment to Au-burn,” Scheuerle said. “i had an interest in shaping Au-burn to be what i wanted it to be and what students wanted it to be. To bring people that were engaging, meaningful and popular.”

Scheuerle doesn’t like to think of himself as the sole coordinator of speakers and comedians, but sharing the role with assistant directors Connor Chilton, Miranda Marty, Madeline Moore and Jordan Owen.

“We all have a part in the planning process, conduct-ing meetings and budget,” Scheuerle said. “My title as ‘director’ usually applies to additional roles such as talk-ing to the media, introducing speakers and acts and mak-ing sure i’m in constant con-tact with everyone to make sure events run smoothly.”

Assistant Director and sophomore aviation man-agement Miranda Marty de-scribed Scheuerle as a “vi-sionary” in his planning and excitement for different events.

“The planning is a team ef-fort, but ricky sees beyond what the norm is,” Marty said. “He’s very innovative and cre-ative, not to mention hilari-ous. We all love working with him.”

Marty said that Scheuerle’s willingness to try new ideas is what makes him a posi-

tive and visible participant in UPC.

“ricky really contributes to our team by looking out beyond what everyone else sees,” Marty said. “He always wants to have big ideas and think outside the box.”

Assistant Director and se-nior in finance Jordan Owen praised Scheuerle’s abilities as director and being able to include all willing partic-ipants in the event planning process.

“ricky’s great at keeping us all on track and being open to everyone’s opinion,” Owen said. “… i’m more detail-ori-ented, so it’s really nice to be able to work with a ‘big idea’ person and plan popu-lar events. He always has that big picture in mind, and it’s worked out great this semes-ter.”

Owen will have to leave the close-knit group of direc-tors when he graduates in December, but said he sees great things in the future for Scheuerle.

“He’s done such a great job with this section of UPC,” Owen said. “i hope he stays around as a ‘big idea’ person.”

For now, Scheuerle and his directors are busy planning the speaking event for spring semester.

He won’t reveal who UPC is looking at, but he did give some hints.

“it’s going to be someone big,” Scheuerle said. “We al-most got them this past se-mester, they were our origi-nal idea. it’s someone who’s been an influence on your life, your entire life.”