Personal posts, link finds and notes from the early years of the blog.
In the line of impressive car-commercial comes the new Golf GTI, “The original, Updated”. DDB London used body doubles and CGI to make it appear as if Kelly is breakdancing down the street. The track is remastered by Mint Royale and which will be released in the charts later on this year.
Source:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-video/…/27/golfgti.mov
http://www.kottke.org/05/02/golf-gti-commercial-and-elsewhere
World War II’s “Operation Market Garden” would have put the Allies in control of the major road leading into the industrial Ruhr, the war would have ended in a matter of weeks …
Instead, what Market Garden became, through a combination of costly miscalculations, bad weather and tactical errors, were more than 17,000 British, American, Dutch and Polish casualties, nearly twice as many dead as in Normandy earlier the same year.
I liked all the performances, and most of the casting choices were dead on (Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine and Robert Redford to name a few). The airdrop sequence (photographed long before CGI) is an awesome sight. So are the battle scenes. This is a movie that almost out-conquers mammoth movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Band of Brothers series, even though this one is made back in 77. A must see.
This is the VW Polo ad that’s currently circulating the Internet, rumored to be fake. I doubt if you will ever see it on TV, but damn, it is professionally made – it’ll be interesting to see if anyone claim responsibility for this one. VW have denied any involvement with this video.
Source:
http://www.groovy-tuesday.com/vw.mov
http://www.boreme.com/bm/JAN05
Chris Hondros, a war photographer, was traveling with an American patrol on a routine mission in Tal Afar, a village in the northern parts of Irak when a car approached their outpost in high speed, due to all recent suicide-car bombing fired the American troops volley of rifle fire as a warning, when the car didn’t stop the troops open fire.
When approaching the demolished car the troops heard children crying, and in the back they found 6 kids which survived the attack. Both parent, which was in the front-seat, was dead.
Chris took those chocking images of what happened.
This is something that you probably wont see on CNN tonight.
Source and more images of the incident:
The first ski-trip of this year has been accomplished. Me, Jezper, Nisse and Tobbe went to högfjället in the middle parts of Sweden for some casual drinking, but most importantly – skiing and snowboarding.
I’ve added some images from the trip, they’re taken with my cellphone-camera, so don’t expect any quality … 🙂
Nothing is to taboo for Tray Parker and Matt Stone. How many other Hollywood-produced movies features dolls getting down like Ron Jeremy during his most glorious days, 5 minute puke-scene or having a theme song named, “America, Fuck Yeah”, with memorable lyrics like,
NFL, FUCK, YEAH!
Rock and roll, FUCK YEAH!
The Internet, FUCK YEAH!
Slavery, FUCK YEAH!FUCK YEAH!
Trey Parker is a musical genius and with backup from Harry Gregson Williams can nothing go wrong.
Parker and Stone have really accomplished making a very smart film. They’ve created a spoof with several different satirical levels attacking action film stereotypes, world policy, the UN, Michael Moore, terrorists, American abuses of power, American influence on world peace, dictators, Hollywood actors, etc. etc. etc.
Simply a must see!
What could have been one of the most impressive natural footages of recent time is not really that amazing nor real. The “Killerwhale jumps a kayaker“-movie that is floating around the internet is nothing more than a cut down version of an extremely clever and well-done commercial for “Powerade”
It’s from the same people who did the “Guy surfing on a tsunami“-commercial, which, due to logical reasons, are withdrawn now.
Anyways, here is the movie for those how’s interested.
Source:
http://galerie.maville.com/photo/photo/2004/12/658.mpeg
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/kayak.asp
I must say that I’m pretty impressed by the commercials for the iPod. Fresh, forward-thinking and catchy. Personally I’m not big a fan of the actual iPod, but the commercial rock however … 🙂
Please click on respective image to view the commercial.
This weeks award to most impressive car commercial goes without any competition to Citroën C4. Probably the most impressive robot-dance I’ve seen – Go Citroën!
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Last night i revived a good old war-classic, Where Eagles Dare (Örnnästet in Swedish). This World War II drama, which stars Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, is full of tension and excitement. Amazing how a 37 year old movie can be so much better than most war-movies produced today.
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood lead a group of commandos on a mission to rescue a captured American general held in a highly fortified and remote castle held by the Germans in WWII (Schloß Hohenwerfen in the Austrian Alps). There are more twists and turns in the story than in most War-movies. Great spy vs spy action and outstanding performances by the actors, a must see!
Next in line of my infamous World War II bash is, The longest Day. Will report back when i’ve watched it.
See you in the trenches.