Foxtel HD+ commercial (2008)
Wow, for once a current commercial I enjoy is actually on YouTube! (I know the blog is supposed to be on hiatus, but posting a random vid doesn’t really count, does it?)
Check out the funky top-loading VCR!
In addition to just being a plain cool commercial, it’s also of interest to me as it’s relevant to some research I was doing last semester about television in the 1950s, and the way Walt Disney (or his studio, I should say) presented a view of history and progress as inseparable from and propelled by consumer technology. Here’s one example.
In other news, I’m off to Seattle on Friday.
I’m thinking of finally buying an mp3 player, cos I’ve already listened to all the (good) albums Qantas has loaded on their entertainment console thing numerous times on previous trips. Gonna pack it with lots of They Might Be Giants and 80s film scores (Giorgio Moroder FTW!).
I just did a quick search of what movies they have playing this month. There’s not much on offer. They have a few movies that I was vaguely interested in seeing, but not beyond the actually-doing-it threshold, such as Cloverfield, 10,000 BC, or even The Mist (probably would never have considered seeing it, but Matt from X-Entertainment gave it a pretty good review, and his taste is always impeccable). I could always fall back on Casablanca, too. Or I could just hope that they’ve updated the same 3 episodes of The Office they always have, or even added some Flight of the Conchords… If only they offered Who’s The Boss, Family Ties, or ALF!
He kind of looks like Feldman in the beginning.
Have a good trip.
Ha! Moroder OWNs! Over the top was on here a few days ago. You and Laura have to have a kid named John Lincoln Hawk Grizzly.
I actually saw Cloverfield and 10,000 BC because my brother works at a video store and got them for free. I was unimpressed by both, good premises ruined by bad direction. You might as well add reruns of Small Wonder, Out of This World, and Night Court too.
Actually, I want to name a kid ‘Kenner’. I think that’d be an awesome name, and it’s not as if anybody below the age of 21 even remembers Kenner, so it’d just seem like a random, off-the-wall name.
Cloverfield is something I probably should have seen anyway, given my two-tiered (academic and fanboyish) interest in movie marketing. I’ll probably skip 10,000 BC after all.
Brilliant! They’ll just think its a derivative of Ken and Jenner. lol
Go for it, if I had a choice between the two, I’d probably choose that one too. The ending of 10,000 B.C. was way too Stargate-ish and it didn’t even have the acting of Snake Plisskan to bring it up. : (
Hon, that asd is really cool! You’re right.. the 50s bit at the beginning actually looks decent, and not tacky.
“You’re right.. the 50s bit at the beginning actually looks decent, and not tacky.”
And no fridge nuking in sight either! XD
Will the real Dan Roberts please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up?
http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php#/profile.php?id=1056298329
Congrats on your engagement, its like a scene straight out of…….
http://rethinkamerica.blogosfere.it/images/greencard_movie.jpg
These aren’t your words. Where’s this from? Encarta? World Book?
Hiatus is gay. We want more ‘obert’s blogs.