This is the mayor of Kharkov, and he was trying to record a TV campaign commercial, but couldn't manage to string enough coherent words together to spit out a sentence.
I was particularly impressed by the torrent of expletive-laced abuse hurled at this guy by the director (who we see in some of the early shots). I think this must have come at the end of an exhausting filming session, because the director is just going off on him in a way that would put Joe Pytka to shame. [...more]
Hire this director and have him start whipping Christian Bale into shape.
This video had my class rolling with laughter – it’s slightly NSFW (mainly with the cussing in the subtitles, although if your office has Russian speakers, they might object).
This is the mayor of Kharkov, and he was trying to record a TV campaign commercial, but couldn’t manage to string enough coherent words together to spit out a sentence. Apparently, he’s notoriously stupid – “The Sarah Palin of Ukraine” – and is the subject of much mockery & head-shaking.
I was particularly impressed by the torrent of expletive-laced abuse hurled at this guy by the director (who we see in some of the early shots). I think this must have come at the end of an exhausting filming session, because the director is just going off on him in a way that would put Joe Pytka to shame.
Gems include: “Try to have an expression. Come on, at least try. Let’s go, let’s go.” “Misha, stop this crap. Really, stop it.”
D: “Why the fuck did you take your hand away?
M:”I finished?”
D: “So fucking what. You finished! Sit one second, motherfucker. OK, we have to do this all over again. From the top…”
D: “Your face is boring. Nobody is going to give you any money.”
Please, can anyone out there who has access to the footage of Palin campaign commercial filming post the outtakes to the web? Because I think the wolf-shootin’ turky-genocidin’ Caribou Barbie must’ve had sessions like this. Then again, maybe she had the offending directors fed to polar bears.
No Apology Necessary…, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. Not sure what they’re apologizing for – maybe the subheds here read something like “Back, Despite Popular Demand!” “Always high prices and low quality! Free botulism lollypops for the little onesl” It was eerily quiet today in Kiev. The streets were almost devoid of traffic; maybe it was [...] [...more]
Not sure what they’re apologizing for – maybe the subheds here read something like “Back, Despite Popular Demand!”
“Always high prices and low quality! Free botulism lollypops for the little onesl”
It was eerily quiet today in Kiev. The streets were almost devoid of traffic; maybe it was the constant, chilly drizzle. One thing I did notice was that many of the stores have big “SALE 70% OFF!” signs in the windows.
The bloom is definitely off the economic rose here. We heard and saw many Ukranians grumbling as they shopped, picking things up off of the shelves, and putting them back again, shaking their heads.
I'm on an internet connection here that is a bit iffy, so I'm going to experiment with a gallery plug-in that may or may not get me marked as a spammer, as well as uploading the shots. So bear with this experiment, and there should be more eye-candy goodness as the week progresses. [...more]
I’m still groggy from the flight over – I got on a plane at 12 noon on Friday, and got off at 7 p.m. Saturday. In between, I got stuck in the middle seat on all three flights. And in each case, the good folks at Northwest managed to put the three biggest guys on the plane all in the same row. I am convinced that that is done just so that they can then watch clandestine surveillance footage and laugh their asses off, as three big guys all try to contort themselves and not elbow each other.
The fog, wet pavement, and industrial setting made me feel like I was in some kind of remake of "The Third Man."
The assignment here is to teach a group of newspaper reporters how to shoot, edit and post video. I’m also going to take a morning to teach them about some of the emerging ad models on the web, since so many of the problems attendant to online video have to do with the uneven schemes for monetizing this kind of content.
I’m on an internet connection here that is a bit iffy, so I’m going to experiment with a gallery plug-in that may or may not get me marked as a spammer, as well as uploading the shots. So bear with this experiment, and there should be more eye-candy goodness as the week progresses.
Schipohl Airport is starting to become familiar to me.
Aerial view of fallow Dutch fields. (click to see larger)
Schipohl Airport is starting to become familiar to me.
The fog, wet pavement, and industrial setting made me feel like I was in some kind of remake of “The Third Man.”
General interest sites, however ... well, let me put it this way. Check out the sode aisle in the supermarket next time you're there. Diet Coke, Diet Coke with Lime, Diet Coke with Splenda, Diet Vanilla Coke, Diet Black Cherry Coke, Coke Blak, Regular Coke, No-Caffeine Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Caffeine Free Coke, Vanilla Coke, Cherry Coke, Diet Coke with Vitamins.
Each of those products exists because there is a niche out there that wants to drink them. Why would Coke want to waste its ad dollars for health nuts that want a soda that has vitamins and that they can delude themselves into thinking that is "good for them" ... on a site that has an audience of cigar-smoking red-meat-eaters?
The advertisers have had to fragment their products. Those fragmented products have to be marketed just to the people who are going to buy them, or they are not viable. That means that the platforms that those products advertise on have to be similarly well-defined.
The root of the problems with mass media isn't that there isn't interest in the information - it's that the advertising money is shifting away to places where the audience is better defined & targetable. [...more]
This is going to have to be quick – I haven’t had any spare time to blog, since I’ve been finishing up on editing the Great Big Scary Project, and I have to churn out my intros to said project, along with sprucing up my multimedia examples for my trip to Kiev.
But – two items this week converged (yeah, there’s that word) to illustrate one of the powerful, emerging lessons about New Media. It’s one that I learned years ago, when I first rode a couple of dot-bombs all the way down into the crater.
Big site traffic numbers do not necessarily mean big money. Read More
Because surfing the Internet is like drinking from a firehose, David LaFontaine braves the torrent to tell you what trends and technologies to gulp down, swirl in your mouth, or spit out.
