Comments on: Sacré Bleu!

By: Crooked Timber » » That takes a lot of balls

Crooked Timber » » That takes a lot of balls — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:48:22 +0000

[...] So there’s this ad for Guinn—never mind. Check out this ad for Sony TVs, filmed last July in San Francisco. It consists of an awful lot of bouncy balls—about a quarter of a million, in fact—bouncing their way down a hilly street. It looks great and is much more soothing than high-speed drives through the streets of Paris. There’s a sixty-second version for high- or low- speed connections, and a three minute version, also for high- or low- speed connections. You need Quicktime 7 for the high-speed versions. [Via Alan.] posted on Thursday, November 17th, 2005 at 12:46 pm Post a comment [...]

By: msf

msf — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:47:21 +0000

Have the perpretators of this incredibly dangerous , illegal, and irresponsible act been prosecuted? If not, why not? Endangering the lives of innocent people for a film is despicable.

By: Dave.L

Dave.L — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:22:38 +0000

Marina Abramovic
I’m surprised to here that reference at CT.
Abramovic with or without Ulay represnts a sort of aestheticized reactionary anti-politics. There’s a long European tradition of that of which is the most famous practicioner in the last hunded years was Duchamp (though anyone who knows anything about the art world knows that such entertainment is still our bread and butter.)
Americans, seeing Duchamp as the inventor of conceptualism, have never managed to reconcile their partial understanding with the fact the referred to himself as a monarchist. Europeans quite simply get the joke. D’s critique of modernism was as reactionary as Sade’s. Monarchists are anti-bourgeois too (and court jesters don’t have to lie.)
I have no huge problem with Abramovic, but I think to understand her work is to see it’s limits.

By: Damien Mulley’s Blog » Blog Archive » Sunday the 13th links

Damien Mulley’s Blog » Blog Archive » Sunday the 13th links — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:39:20 +0000

[...] Ferrari Joyride around Paris. [...]

By: cm

cm — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:43:26 +0000

German law has a category of misdemeanor called “gross mischief” (grober Unfug), which would probably include this type of activity.

With any type of mischief, after the fact when nothing bad has happened, there are always debates of the humorless vs. the amused, and often it is not entirely clear which side to take.

By: david tiley

david tiley — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:22:23 +0000

Ps – just like the linked video on post 3.

By: david tiley

david tiley — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:12:35 +0000

Da dum da (slowly) dadada (fast) da da da DAH (slower again)…

I can’t do it. Claude Lelouche made A Man and a Woman. For that theme song, he should die. THAT is a real crime.

Now I will just lie down and try and get that song out of my head.

BTW - there is a genre of videos on the internet in which cameras are jammed behind the windscreens of motor cyles so we can read the speedometer. Then they drive insanely fast on the highway. Now that is genuinely worrying.

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:10:46 +0000

Someone has produced a really nice Google map with screenshots of the route.

By: Barry Freed

Barry Freed — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:27:15 +0000

Yeah, it’s been “slashdotted”.

By: lillemask

lillemask — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:55:49 +0000

It’s been Crooked Timbered.

By: trotstky

trotstky — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:26:12 +0000

Thanks, ray and jet.

Has anyone coined a word for what happens a gem way out on the long tail suddenly gains notice—and crashes all the servers that only have the bandwidth to handle obscurity?

By: jet

jet — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:12:23 +0000

Trotstky, Ray has pointed to this torrent, so I won't put up the file on dropload. If you have a problem with the torrent, let me know and I'll send it via dropload.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:56:59 +0000

I don’t get it. Isn’t this just an everyday commute?

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:29:33 +0000

If you go to the second link above, at jerrykindall.com, there are links to three or four different sites that host the video.

By: trotstky

trotstky — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:39:36 +0000

Jet,

Actually, if you wanted to create an account at dropload.com, you could post it there. My address, for notification, is boogabooga1114AT**msn.com**

I’d be much obliged, having read the hype.