Oh, as if I was foreshadowing with all my recent accident posts, Evel Knievel, the king of all stunts, passed away today.
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I seem to be on an accidents kick. This one demonstrates a nice car flip, but frankly since I don’t speak German, I’m not too sure what it is all about — but visually it is cool.
Cameron — want to translate?
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have the worst time sitting through horror films. Even though I know the films are fake, for some reason, I get all riled up and cannot stop from screaming during the scary parts. So when a friend passed this link to me, I had no idea how gory it was going to be - I mean, hey, it is a PSA from Canada about workplace safety, right? These series on YouTube are delightfully gross, and remind me of Evil Dead as well as this German safety video I posted up here earlier this year.
The somewhat disturbing “viewable from space” KFC logo, was not the first logo to be viewable from space, despite what the press is saying. In fact the very first logo viewable from space is in Australia.
But this time lapse video of the making of the large-enough-to-view-from-space KFC video is pretty interesting nonetheless.
Channel 53, one of my favorite video blog sites, posted the video “Moments of Love” by Art of Noise today, which made me think about how transformative Art of Noise was to me as a child. I remember watching this video and thinking how cool it was to be a punk girl who got to bang up musical instruments in an abandoned warehouse. I wanted to be just like her. Thankfully, my parents wouldn’t let me wear makeup, or I might be in a different place than I am today.
A pretty visualization of Moebius Transformations.
Australia’s TAC has a beautiful series of PSA’s about not driving over the speed limit. I love the “moving backwards” reconstruction of the first one. The second is a bit more like a melodrama.
My co-worked pointed this gem out — a guy interviews people doing the “walk of shame” after Halloween weekend — all the while promoting an online dating site.
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Ad agency Arnold holds a focus group and pretends to present a new ad from Apple to the participants for their feedback. Little did they know, they were actually looking at storyboards from the original Macintosh ad from 1984. Proof that some wildly creative ideas would never get made if we had to use focus groups to approve the concepts.
Here’s the original spot from 1984:
Swiss firefighters sing a hip hop song about how to dial emergency numbers. Apparently many Swiss people call the emergency numbers thinking that it is directory assistance. Perhaps this new video will create more clarity.
It is a amusing clip that encourages you to write the emergency number in your undies in case you forget (in French of course it sounds so much more…suave).