Joe And Rich Luxton

Recreating childhood family photos as a Christmas present that accidentally went viral

London
16 December 2014

Joe And Rich Luxton
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“We never intended for anyone other than our family to see them. They were never supposed to go on the internet at all.”
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0:43 Hello hello hello everybody hello everyone and welcome to our lecture some of you may recognize us some of you might not for those of you who don't we are the luxon brothers I'm joe I'm a graphic designer and I work at build and I'm the little girl I'm a filmmaker freelancer if anyone wants to speak to me after that'll be great thank you yeah basically we want to thank it's nice that because they basically sort of made us internet celebrities celebrity if you like what it was amazing but basically we started a project which we created old family photos and this is where it all kicked off why did we do it you ask basically we never intended for anyone other than our family to see them they were never supposed to go on the internet at all they started off as a present from a christmas present because we neither of us had any money this is our mum here with us too neither does have any money and we wanted to give her a good christmas present and we also wanted to make her laugh and we had seen people doing stuff like this before where they recreate their old family photos but we never thought they were good enough and we thought we could do it better basically.

2:13 So yeah we also had some really good family photos lying around and we thought it would be really bad to waste that opportunity so without further ado let's show you the photos okay.

2:27 So this first one this is our this is at brenda's house our granny brenda mccurdy we I won't talk too much about them.

2:35 But I'll show you them we this one was really rushed that if like we our mum was in in the room just to the left of us. And we had to just make up this ridiculous lie that I don't I don't know who said it.

2:50 But we're going to get like our toothbrushes from the car and it was just ridiculous but she fell for it she didn't have a clue about the whole thing so so it was good yeah this one is us both in bed rich with a fetching hat and a bag combo as we as he always used to have go get a bad combo and there's us last year. And then.

3:21 This is this was actually the most difficult one to recreate this is our dog tally and here she's probably about one year old one something like that. And in this one she's 15 and she was deaf and half blind and basically she did whatever she wanted to do yeah she really didn't cooperate so on to this one oh yeah I either my mum reckons that I really liked dressing up as a girl but I think I'm sure she just really wanted a girl and was just really disappointed this was yeah this was a lot of fun doing I've continued to dress up as a girl each weekend since it's been good fun this is me and my dad this was I think maybe the day I came back home after I was born and this is me 27 years later and you can see the size ratio has changed a little bit there.

4:26 And this one this one was what was weird to say the least I think my girlfriend was sort of stood over over us on a chair it was really surreal weird situation just sort of telling me not to to to to stop pulling a an orgasm face because I think was there with the words we'll show a few outtakes here watch just watch rich's face throughout if you're into that sort of thing. That's a good one no no just know you look like you're dead there and there we go that's the album cover shot yeah less than that's the money shot so this is with our with our uncle dave on the bike in our grandparents back garden and this is us last year not sure how we managed to keep the the bike upright to be honest but this was some sort of vlog it was joe's birthday with some sort of space theme we don't actually know what was going on.

5:43 But we we gave it a go anyway gave it our best shot got the old charles manson cross on the forehead though this is I think joe's about one one week old day I think and that's that yeah this was the this was the show stopper I think there's this was a bit very funny very weird at the same time we we got one of joe's housemates to we sort of bullied her into coming in the bathroom with us this very small bathroom and we took our clothes off take your clothes off.

6:23 So yeah quite a few we had so many photos but there were quite a few we couldn't use some because of the outfit like where are we gonna find a tartan puffer onesie it fits him now so a bun bag and no pants there again go get the bags in go get the bags in as a tiger outfit would fit me why not why not I don't know I don't know why are there other places like the location.

6:53 That's me in in our old house we didn't have the tiles anymore unfortunately this was in spain so we couldn't use that. And this was on top of a climbing frame in our old back garden with a makeshift towel as a cape it's it's just it's literally trying to match those those certain things which make all the difference like the sofa the mannequins we found in escape there's there's some weird ones and there's also some complications in shots like this like it would have been a bit creepy my dad would have been out for that a big bit homoerotic sort of that kind of vibe so we we weren't really into that we'd get arrested doing something something like that.

7:50 So yeah after we sent the stuff into it's nice that it literally went everywhere it went all over we were we were on buzzfeed awkward family photos imgur reddit everything you you just it was incredible we even got a a page in the sun which was ridiculous page page three area and there are all sorts of reactions to it some people loved it yeah there's it's a bit weird that thanks thanks jason yeah like lovely lovely things lovely things are said right cheers guys shark bite non-mum I don't know some people hated it. There was some haters obviously hey he's going to hate the guy's like someone was just bitter to be honest everybody grow to be a hipster yeah I don't really understand this one but it's quite funny and there was a surprising amount of feedback for our dad as well. Actually the dad looks irish as what's that mean what does that even mean he's he's not irish he's english he was pleased about that one that's good yeah he was pretty chuffed with and there are comments about his age yeah there are a couple of comparisons too james may maybe is the hair's similar or joe latrulio from superbad I'm not sure no then.

9:38 There are lots of love lots of love for the beast beards yeah this is one of my favorite beers this is my favorite I I think that's I'm the last bearded one it's I I love the detail that she's gone into it's fantastic firing a cold night yeah. So many wigs I can assure you we both have very strong jawlines nothing to do with that yeah there's love for the dog lots of love for the dog some people only like the dog the the dog is definitely the best part the rest is pointless and a little weird and then. There was just creepy that was creepy real creepy yeah you get these kind of people on the internet lady bonus that was a that was a new one to me.

10:47 This is my favorite though what can I say what can I say so that's the end of our talk just like say have a have a merry christmas here's my christmas jumper and a happy new year you