As Drawn! says: "Before you watch this insane music video by Jérémie Perin, note that is totally not safe for work. Its video-game inspired animation contains pixellated 8-bit depictions of both sex and pooping. The YouTube description reads "Think Spielberg's Duel + Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat ... More.
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As a little kid, I used to think electrical substations would make really awesome jungle gyms. This video helpfully demonstrates why 5-year-old Maggie was an idiot.
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On the 43rd anniversary of its first broadcast on NBC's Monday Night at the Movies (1964) CONELRAD has published a complete history of the infamous and iconic Daisy Ad. Bill Geerhart spent the last year researching the story and documenting its disputed authorship.
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Interesting link. That commercial is surreal. I was curious about what bomb footage they used. I skimmed through the copy but didn't see any references. Not sure its an H-bomb.
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Reading that was like watching an episode of "Mad Men" whilst experiencing a very good acid flashback.
Tony Schwartz's book "The Responsive Chord" is essential reading for ANYONE working in the television industry. It was a bible for anyone who looked to use the medium to influence - from educators to marketers. What Walter Murch was to sound & cinema so too was Schwartz to audio & video, and his understanding of how video is "sound to the eyes" fed a lot of McLuhan's insights.
How this affects the ability of the current user-generated age of media I have no frickin' idea - but I'm digging out my copy of "The Chord" to refresh my mind and see what sticks. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where a single 30 second media event could have such a profound change? Of course, Schwartz's insights were agnostic to ideology so maybe it's not such a good thing after all.
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Every time I show this ad in a class (usually Persuasion or Political Communication), my students are gobsmacked by the heavy-handedness of it.
Then we look at some more modern ads...
BB READER, you're right, that's not an H-bomb. It's a Nevada test of a small fission bomb, a few kT. The opening shot is from a suicidal distance, less than 2 miles away. The wider shot it shows the mushroom cloud rising off to the right of the fireball, which is a bit unusual, and six telemetry rockets. DoE has an online photo archive - http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/default.htm - but I couldn't find one quite like it. My guess is it's probably Tumbler-Snapper series F or H, because those were open to the press - most others would have been still classified in the 1960s.