Okay, so we're total suckers for tilt-shift perspective manipulation, and since we've run a fair number of
snippy attack ads lately, we thought we'd try and clear the air with this impressive new spot from HP. Part of the relatively-new "Create Amazing" campaign, it's a miniaturized international tour through Shanghai, New York, Santorini, London, Istanbul, and some custom office sets built in L.A., and, well, we're in love. Watch the video below, maybe have a second glance at Michael Gartenberg's
Entelligence column on gadget-fan unity from yesterday, and let's all agree to agree for once in this crazy world.
Update: Sadly, the filmmaker got in touch with us and requested that we pull the video until he can clear it with HP -- we'll let you know.
posted November 9th 2009 3:39PM
So to summarize:
-HP do an ad that fakes miniatures by copying a technique seen elsewhere before to underline their "creativity"
-They use a nice song that is not released and not available for purchase anywhere, nor do they offer a download
-They are taken by surprise by the fact such an ad could go viral and rush out to swing the copyright hammer on every youtube upload out there to make sure, uhm, nobody sees it
Create pathetic.
I love the work of Ben Thomas. I have one of his stills as the background on my laptop. Check out his stuff. Wish he'd update his wallpaper though. Once a month updates my a$$.
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Man, I love tilt-shift.
I just wish I had the money to buy a Tilt-shift lens, it'd be worth more than my entire camera.
And your house.
Ok so I loved the video and want a copy. I never closed the tab that I watched the video in, its still stored in my cache or cookies or something (not that computer smart). Is there a way I could download it from my cache?
Yeah, it's still there somewhere, but 'where' depends on which browser you're using and which OS. OK, here goes...
Google "temporary internet files" + your browser + your OS. Once you know where the cache is, go to that location and sort the files by size, it'll be a large file compared to everything else in there, but the filename will be random. The file should have a .flv extension I think (if you have it set up to see file extensions). Copy it and paste it somewhere else to save it.
I'm pretty sure that will work. You'll need a player like VLC or GOM Player to play FLV files. I've pulled videos out of there like that, but unfortunately sometimes due to which player the video was originally displayed in the webpage with, the sound will be missing (a copy protection feature).
Also (and maybe I should have started out with this) there are "video downloader" programs available that will add a button to your browser that automatically does everything I listed above. But I don't know if you might have needed to install it before viewing the page. Try searching for "video downloader" or "youtube downloader."
Good luck.
sorry, I just got a chance to see the video (thanks to Adam's post below). it's quicktime, so obviously it won't be a .flv file (should be .mov). also, I don't think the video downloader apps will work with quicktime.
Not sure why they don't want us seeing this amazing ad... but mirror here:
http://appleguru.org/createamazing.html
German Telekom did this before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co2DogpFm8