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Title: Isn't it nice when things just...work? Post by: Rich01 on February 11, 2010, 10:10:20 PM Co-worker sent this to me at work a few days ago. Not sure how true the following statement is though, non the less, interesting
PLEASE READ BELOW BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO. AMAZING!!!! ALL PHYSICS! If you thought that the people who set up a room full of dominos to have them knocked over later was amazing, you haven't seen anything yet. There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in these images.Everything that you see happened in real time exactly as you see it. The Recording required 606 takes and in the first 605 takes there always was something, usually of minor importance, that didn't work. It was necessary for the recording team to install the set-up time after time and it took several weeks working day and night to achieve this effect. The recording cost 6 million dollars and it took 3 months to finish, including the engineering design of the sequence. The duration of the video is only 2 minutes, but every time that Honda shows the commercial on British Television, they make enough money to support any of us for the rest of our lives. However, this commercial has turned out to be the most displayed in the history of the Internet. Honda execs think that it will pay for itself simply because of the free showings. When Honda senior execs viewed it, they immediately approved it without hesitation -- including costs. Everything you see in the sequence (besides the walls, floor, ramp and untouched Honda Accord) is part of two automobiles. The voice is that of Garrison Keiller. The commercial was so well received by Honda execs when they saw it that their first comment was how amazing the computer graphics were. They almost fell out of their chairs when told that the recording was real without any graphics manipulation. By the way, about the wind shield wipers; in the new Honda Accords, they are sensitive to water and designed to start working as soon as they get wet.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFznHl2ZQrI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFznHl2ZQrI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) Title: Re: Isn't it nice when things just...work? Post by: timot_one on February 11, 2010, 10:34:05 PM I knew it was the fucking cog commercial. We used that video in one of my synth classes and we had to create all the sounds.
Title: Re: Isn't it nice when things just...work? Post by: Milan on February 12, 2010, 12:55:26 AM Pretty cool background story.
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