This explains so much.
Archive for March, 2009
An insight into the complicated workings of the US Treasury Department
Posted in cool stuff, lighter side, tagged South Park Bailout on March 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Modern Art explained through modern art.
Posted in lighter side, Random sightings, tagged Modern Art, New Math on March 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
What’s on top of your house?
Posted in lighter side, tagged Berkshire cock on the roof on March 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Click to enlarge. Slightly NSFW.
From the BBC…
An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing on the roof of his parents’ £1million mansion near Inkpen in Berkshire.
Comcast – Apply directly to the forehead.
Posted in cool stuff, lighter side, Random sightings, rants, tagged comcast dream big commercial, waking life on March 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
This Comcast commercial has been out for a while now and to be honest, it’s a sub-par effort. The only thing that stands out is the technique, though I wonder why they didn’t have a compelling story to match it. There have been many ads that have used animation and digital video – very badly – like Charles Schwab and that annoying E-Trade baby. Well, come to think of it all babies are annoying. I digress.
Here is the Comcast advert:
Talk about sitting in advertising ivory tower…who the hell in the world sings about cable, internet and telephone? The blend of animation on digital video with stunning effect was done for the movie Waking Life. Here is the New York Times take on this movie and the technique:
‘Visually, ”Waking Life” is a technological coup: it transforms photographed reality into a sophisticated cartoon world by superimposing brightly hued digital animation on live-action digital video. Mr. Linklater’s stroke of brilliance is his application of this technique to an open-ended fable about perception itself. I can’t imagine a more powerful visual metaphor for the suspension between waking and dreaming evoked by the movie than this surreal merging of photography and animation.’
Here is a cool scene from the movie – wait, go get some magic herbs or a chug down a stiff drink first.
Catcher In The Rye 