Apparently this commercial which was made to promote the Xbox 360 was "banned" and will not be shown on TV. If you ask me it's probably a viral marketing tactic to say it's banned so a bunch of people blog about it. Also apparently the idea for the commercial came from another video which was filmed by some college kids in a gym. It looks like it's filmed in some subway station. One guy is walking along and he sees a couple other guys that look at him wrong. They all turn around and face each other. Then they draw fake guns made out of their fingers. Next up a bunch of other people around them all do the same thing so now there are finger guns pointed everyone. Finally, one guy shoots his finger gun which sets off a chain reaction of finger gun firing. So now all these "business" people are running around playing cops and robbers (or at least pretending to get shot). You've have to view the whole video for more. Check it out.
Pull on your nerd hat and prepare for another one of those OMG WTF moments of "Why didn't I think of that one?". So there is a guy that put togather something called BrickQuest. Basically he took the original board game idea added a little Everquest, a little AD&D, and built the sets with legos and lego characters ala pewter miniatures. One other thing it reminds me of is an old game written in GW-BASIC in the 80s called Wizard.bas in that you don't know what's in the next room until you move there. But wait, that's not all. It has ninjas! Black ninjas and red ninjas and even a Ninja Warlord. What's not to love about this game? As far as I can tell you basically have to buy all the legos yourself and then put it togather with some imagination (or copy the stuff in his images) though he does provide a rulebook. Lego ninja's for the win!
So apparently the only thing the Croats and Muslims can agree on in Bosnia is the fact that Bruce Lee kicks some serious ass. So to honor Big Dawg Bruce they put up a golden statue of Bruce Lee in one of their parks. Now this golden statue is holding some golden nunchucks. Apparently shortly after the statue was unveiled some local thugs moved in at night and jacked Bruce's golden Nunchucks. I'd say they better watch themselves as spirit Bruce Lee might come back and give them a wooping. I wouldn't be surprised if they came back the next night with a truck and jacked the whole statue! Go Bosnia!
Here is a pretty funny video spoofing vegans. It starts out with a guy eating in a fast food restaurant with is buddy. The buddy is having fries, a burger, and a bucket of soda. The guy is having some limp salad and a glass of water (your normal fast food vegan fare). Here's where the fact advertisement comes in for "The Chubby Vegan" a fictional restaurant that serves vegan food like fastfood. The commecial toutes thick slabs of tofu, super special 5 million whole grain wheat bread, lactose free soy cheese, and a giant wheatgrass green gulp all for $27.99! It's funny because vegan food really is overpriced and badly marketed.
It's a sad day in ninja land because Pat Morita AKA Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid movies bit the big dog today at the age of 73. Mr. Miyago is the guy that brought us "Wax On Wax Off". The article goes on to say Pat Morita received a Hollywood Boulevard Walk Of Fame star in 1994. RIP.
Ouch. The guy in this video is filming an animal adoption video for a cat named Pinky(or Peeky ?). Now, Pinky is pet of the week and he stays still for about ten or twenty seconds while the guy talks about him being pet of the week. At this point Pinky decides he's had enough and tries to get away. The guy has Pinky on a leash and Pinky is just going nuts. He's flying up in the air, running around in circles, and trying his best to escape. A lady tries to help by attempting to catch Pinky in a pet box. This makes Pinky go even more crazy. Soon Pinky gets his leash tangled around the guys leg and starts crawling up his leg. Pinky grabs on with his claws to the inside of this guy's thigh and digs in. The guy starts screaming like a banshee and finally lets Pinky go. Like I said, ouch.
Turkey day is fast approaching and the web is crawling with Thanksgiving themed crap. So I saw a post about this "safety" video regarding turkey deep fryers (a popular recipe in the south). Anyway, the video shows some firemen dropping a turkey into one of the deep fryer units which was overfilled with oil. The oil shoots up and gushs down the sides to the open flames. Suffice to say the whole thing goes up in a big gout of fire. The show some additional tests of the deep fryer where it also bursts into flames for being to hot, tips over easily, and at the end of the video they how additional safety commentary in Spanish. Suffice to say though we know you just want to see the whole contraption catch on fire so you don't have to buy one.
Up for today we have this crazy Japanese (what I assume to be a food) commercial. There are two sumo wrestlers doing judo or some such in the background and what is probably a Japanese pop start or tennis star or some such doing the same moves in the foreground. They shout out on each move and that's basically it. There is nothing else to the commercial. See I told you it was crazy. Near the end they show the pop start biting a "stick" which I can only assume is a straight pretzle based on the name on the box that they show. And how exactly is this going to convince anyone to buy this product? Hint: It's not.
Apparently this commercial which was made to promote the Xbox 360 was "banned" and will not be shown on TV. If you ask me it's probably a viral marketing tactic to say it's banned so a bunch of people blog about it. Also apparently the idea for the commercial came from another video which was filmed by some college kids in a gym. It looks like it's filmed in some subway station. One guy is walking along and he sees a couple other guys that look at him wrong. They all turn around and face each other. Then they draw fake guns made out of their fingers. Next up a bunch of other people around them all do the same thing so now there are finger guns pointed everyone. Finally, one guy shoots his finger gun which sets off a chain reaction of finger gun firing. So now all these "business" people are running around playing cops and robbers (or at least pretending to get shot). You've have to view the whole video for more. Check it out.
Pull on your nerd hat and prepare for another one of those OMG WTF moments of "Why didn't I think of that one?". So there is a guy that put togather something called BrickQuest. Basically he took the original board game idea added a little Everquest, a little AD&D, and built the sets with legos and lego characters ala pewter miniatures. One other thing it reminds me of is an old game written in GW-BASIC in the 80s called Wizard.bas in that you don't know what's in the next room until you move there. But wait, that's not all. It has ninjas! Black ninjas and red ninjas and even a Ninja Warlord. What's not to love about this game? As far as I can tell you basically have to buy all the legos yourself and then put it togather with some imagination (or copy the stuff in his images) though he does provide a rulebook. Lego ninja's for the win!
So apparently the only thing the Croats and Muslims can agree on in Bosnia is the fact that Bruce Lee kicks some serious ass. So to honor Big Dawg Bruce they put up a golden statue of Bruce Lee in one of their parks. Now this golden statue is holding some golden nunchucks. Apparently shortly after the statue was unveiled some local thugs moved in at night and jacked Bruce's golden Nunchucks. I'd say they better watch themselves as spirit Bruce Lee might come back and give them a wooping. I wouldn't be surprised if they came back the next night with a truck and jacked the whole statue! Go Bosnia!
Here is a pretty funny video spoofing vegans. It starts out with a guy eating in a fast food restaurant with is buddy. The buddy is having fries, a burger, and a bucket of soda. The guy is having some limp salad and a glass of water (your normal fast food vegan fare). Here's where the fact advertisement comes in for "The Chubby Vegan" a fictional restaurant that serves vegan food like fastfood. The commecial toutes thick slabs of tofu, super special 5 million whole grain wheat bread, lactose free soy cheese, and a giant wheatgrass green gulp all for $27.99! It's funny because vegan food really is overpriced and badly marketed.
It's a sad day in ninja land because Pat Morita AKA Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid movies bit the big dog today at the age of 73. Mr. Miyago is the guy that brought us "Wax On Wax Off". The article goes on to say Pat Morita received a Hollywood Boulevard Walk Of Fame star in 1994. RIP.
Ouch. The guy in this video is filming an animal adoption video for a cat named Pinky(or Peeky ?). Now, Pinky is pet of the week and he stays still for about ten or twenty seconds while the guy talks about him being pet of the week. At this point Pinky decides he's had enough and tries to get away. The guy has Pinky on a leash and Pinky is just going nuts. He's flying up in the air, running around in circles, and trying his best to escape. A lady tries to help by attempting to catch Pinky in a pet box. This makes Pinky go even more crazy. Soon Pinky gets his leash tangled around the guys leg and starts crawling up his leg. Pinky grabs on with his claws to the inside of this guy's thigh and digs in. The guy starts screaming like a banshee and finally lets Pinky go. Like I said, ouch.
Turkey day is fast approaching and the web is crawling with Thanksgiving themed crap. So I saw a post about this "safety" video regarding turkey deep fryers (a popular recipe in the south). Anyway, the video shows some firemen dropping a turkey into one of the deep fryer units which was overfilled with oil. The oil shoots up and gushs down the sides to the open flames. Suffice to say the whole thing goes up in a big gout of fire. The show some additional tests of the deep fryer where it also bursts into flames for being to hot, tips over easily, and at the end of the video they how additional safety commentary in Spanish. Suffice to say though we know you just want to see the whole contraption catch on fire so you don't have to buy one.
Up for today we have this crazy Japanese (what I assume to be a food) commercial. There are two sumo wrestlers doing judo or some such in the background and what is probably a Japanese pop start or tennis star or some such doing the same moves in the foreground. They shout out on each move and that's basically it. There is nothing else to the commercial. See I told you it was crazy. Near the end they show the pop start biting a "stick" which I can only assume is a straight pretzle based on the name on the box that they show. And how exactly is this going to convince anyone to buy this product? Hint: It's not.
