"Lower Depths" and "The Count," have kindly pointed me in the direction of a teaser video running on engadget for the Adamo laptop... Dell's rip-off of the Apple Air. In true BDA spirit, whoever did this thing (at this stage we don't know if it was Enfatico... Anyone out there with any further info?) has done an "homage" to the classic Chris Cunningham video of Bjork's "All is full of love." Unfortunately, it doesn't feature the robots fucking each other. Just boring old computer shit. How many bloody spots have ripped off music videos over the years? Must be fucking millions. I checked the Enfatico Web site. Nothing there, still showing that same Indian stuff they did months ago. The blog's had one post in the last two weeks. If they did do it, you'd expect them to be flaunting it. Unless there's no one left in the fucking building to do it!
Can't you fuckers think of anything original?
maybe it was the 2 Icelandic video gods, Samuel & Gunnar? check out their magnum opus "fuck the system" here....
http://www.samuelandgunnar.com/?pageid=142§ion=205
you decide...
Posted by: the lower depths | March 10, 2009 at 07:02 AM
those robots also starred in a car ad before. can t remember which one. and am i the only one who thinks this "come to nothing" song is not quite right. besides, it might have been used for tic tac chill before... the lyrics include depressing things like "you don t like me and i don t like you at all" around 45''.
Posted by: pseudo | March 10, 2009 at 08:33 AM
mercedes or lexus used inhuman robotic limbs to assemble a car last year, shot much better but still missing that human connection... i would rather they put some human touch in there and made me think i was actually buying a product that paid people rather than helped SkyNet build its terminator factories in Taiwan...
at least in the bjørk video the robots were imbued with personality...
the soundtrack does sound really mopy, you're right, but in the face of the fairly drab video, i hadn't noticed...
Posted by: the lower depths | March 10, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Years ago in Europe... Fiat had a campaign using robots on an assembly line... The tag was "Designed by humans... built by robots." Further proof there is nothing new in the ad biz... Just CGI...
Cheers/George
Posted by: George Parker | March 10, 2009 at 03:49 PM
LD, as for the sound, i meant the lyrics of the actual song at 45''
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku_lVf4E97E
sorry for probably causing confusion...
and for the adamo vid... i thought i had my usual tripping when thinking 'why is that girl with the crazy hat holding a big L'. but reading the adamo site i guess L stands for... Love? so there you go. something human ;)
btw, my all-time favourite robot-imbued-with-personality spot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9RGYxSw6o
Posted by: pseudo | March 10, 2009 at 04:20 PM