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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Honda Domino Effect
Here's a cool commercial that my Mom forwarded me an e-mail about. My mom isn't a very tech savvy person, so the fact that she showed it to me may suggest that this thing's been around forever and I'm the last dude on the planet to hear about it. Either way it's super cool.Rumor has it (and I haven't confirmed it so don't kill me if I'm wrong) that everything in the commercial is real. No computer effects were used. What you see is a domino of car parts from 2 disassembled Honda accords. It took the team involved 600+ takes to have it work perfectly. The total cost of the commercial was $6,000,000.Don't know how true it is, but I love it! Since my days as a toddler I loved domino style inventions. That's partly why I love Goonies, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Wallace and Gromit!
Comments
Sammy <3
Saturday, June 30, 2007
LOL totally kool!!!
Duncan
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Great ad. Based on a short foreign film festival winner called How Things Work from quite a few years ago now. The original was over twenty minutes long, if I remember correctly. Totally crazy. This ad has spawned a host of imitators and spoofs, my favourite of which is the 118 commercial. (118 is a british telephone company for directory assistance.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slh03uk88Ko
Anonymous
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The movie is called "Der Lauf der Dinge", in english "The Way Things Go" from the Swiss Artist Duo Fischli/Weiss.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUomQnqHTl8
Muttpop Bob
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Duncan & Anonymous:Thanks! I didn't know about this. Really cool.-Muttpop Bob