[THIN] Re: OT - Wednesday Humor - Insane people with too much tim e on their hands
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:40:44 +0100
As you say, I think there is one join.
I haven't watched my DVD of it, yet - but I know many people thought the
movement of the tyres and the silencer box must have been CGI - but
apparently it was done by clever use of counter balance / weighted stuff
added to the insides, just to make them roll a certain way, once given some
inertia.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:GSullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 June 2003 20:16
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT - Wednesday Humor - Insane people with
> too much tim e on their hands
>
> Not to burst any bubbles, but I believe that I read somewhere
> (on the honda site, I believe) that there is actually one
> cut/splice in the commercial... they could not find a room
> long enough to do the entire "Rube Goldberg" in one run.
>
> Ah, here it is:
> http://tinyurl.com/e2mp
>
> But very very cool none-the-less...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:17 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT - Wednesday Humor - Insane people with
> too much tim e on their hands
>
> That is tooo cool.
> I threw the swf file on zoner.net for anyone who wants to
> view or download it also. http://zoner.net/weblog/honda.swf
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Greg Reese
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:17 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] OT - Wednesday Humor - Insane people with too
> much time on their hands
>
>
> Just go to the bottom link to see the commercial.
>
>
> New Honda commercial in the UK.
>
> Very important that you understand: There are no computer
> graphics or digital tricks in the film. Everything you see
> really happened in real time exactly as you see it.
>
> The film took 606 takes. On the first 605 takes, something,
> usually very minor, didn't work. They would then have to set
> the whole thing up again. The crew spent weeks shooting night
> and day. By the time it was over, they were ready to change
> professions. The film cost six million dollars (holy ----!)
> and took three months to complete including a full
> engineering the sequence. In addition, it's two minutes long
> so every time Honda airs the film on British television,
> they're shelling out enough dough to keep any one of us in
> clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast becoming the most
> downloaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda
> executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in
> "free" viewings (Honda isn't paying a dime to have you watch
> this commercial!).
>
> When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off
> on it immediately without any hesitation -- including the costs.
>
> There are six and only six hand-made Accords in the world. To
> the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled
> two of them to make the film. Everything you see in the film
> (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda
> Accord) are parts from those two cars.
>
> The voiceover is Garrison Keillor.
>
> When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and
> commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They
> fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.
>
> Oh. And about those funky windshield wipers. On the new
> Accords, the windshield wipers have water sensors and are
> designed to start doing their thing automatically as soon as
> they become wet. It looks a bit weird in the commercial. A s
> amazing as this is, it's actually based on an earlier film
> from the seventies called "How Things Move" by two Swiss
> self-destructing artifacts artists (say that ten times fast).
> In that film, a similar set-up with household objects goes on
> for thirty minutes with air jets and fire and chemical
> reactions. You can get the video on amazon.com. Or not. Spend
> your twenty bucks on a latte at Starbucks.
>
http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html
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