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Microsoft's First Seinfeld Ad Airs: Shoe Circus
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LOL, your comment had NAUGHT to do with familiarity of some technical terms, what are you on about? Or are you saying that common words and concepts are too hard to fathom for an art photographer?
I'm sorry, but you're not an art photographer by any stretch.
The part where you claim to "still" be using Aperture is really a quality Hands Sandonism par excellence I mean, unless you work with analogue cameras, you have to use _some_ sort of photo editing app. But perhaps your "art" is simply printed "as is" OR use photoshop.
Anyway, I'm taking Aiden's advice. You're clearly here to troll and mouth off about anything while knowing nothing.
Most people seem to be overlooking that this is the first step in an advertising campaign. The first goal is to get people's attention - and 1260 posts in less than four days shows it's worked pretty well, at least judging from MacRumors readers. Subsequent spots will take the emphasis in different directions.
I currently use an FM3a which replaced my Nikon FM2 and print Ilfochromes from the slide film(transparency)on Ilfochrome paper(used to be called Cibachrome-when Ilford bought it they changed the name)I do Drum scans of a lot of my work and sometimes to digital prints on custom chromira Fuji-flex paper which I find closely matches the high gloss and saturation of Ilfochromes. I m currently working on a show of work which Will all be printed digitaly from the Drum scans and have found iPhoto easy and quick to see the photographs cropped the way I want them before printing. I love Michael Kenna's photography,how do you rate it,Oh I forgot,your not going to respond Ha Ha@you!!!!
I'm not so sure. It's not like I saw this ad on TV and them came here to talk about it. I saw this thread, followed the link, watched it, and then commented on it. I am not sure, but I suspect that most of the posters in this thread did the same. So I am not so sure that you can use the post count in this thread as evidence for the ad getting people's attention.
Fine - it's not like you have to first see the ad without ever being aware of it. It's just the same if it's word-of-mouth, like "hey, did you see new ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld?" It still works to get people's attention.
Or in this case, "word of forum", right? Sure, it doesn't really matter where you first heard of it, if they get you talking about it, then you are talking about it. Make sense. But I still think it is relevant to point out that the size of this thread is more indicative of the size of this community, more so than the size of the commercial's audience out there talking about the ad.
Yes, right. I don't know any data on the ad's effect in the entire commercial audience. And presumably MacRumors readers are more "in-the-know" about these things than the average person, who is much less likely to have caught on to it yet. But still, the huge amount of posts here in such a short time qualifies it as an unusually hot MacRumors topic at least.
Terrible, terrible, lame ad. Is it really going to get people talking? Do people talk about Jerry Seinfeld anymore?
The whole reference to the edible computer brought to mind the Will Ferrell "Switch" ad that Apple ran at Macworld New York early in the decade (Youtube here--I don't think it was ever broadcast). That ad had two advantages over the current Microsoft ad: first, it was genuinely funny, and second, it actually made the advertised product sound good and useful.
The whole reference to the edible computer brought to mind the Will Ferrell "Switch" ad that Apple ran at Macworld New York early in the decade (Youtube here--I don't think it was ever broadcast). That ad had two advantages over the current Microsoft ad: first, it was genuinely funny, and second, it actually made the advertised product sound good and useful.
Even as a Windows user, my mom expressed a similar sentiment; though she said, "How stupid!"
..or the loquaciousness of this community.
After all, a story about a banner hung from Yerba Buena is now at 491 posts....and the banner is nothing more than an image from the current Ipod campaign that we've all seen a zillion times
Wwaad?
He'd smack you alongside the head, and say 'focus on the image, not the tools'.
And, by the way, you haven't said anything that I couldn't have invented after 10 minutes of Yahoo! (avoid Google, they're the next evil monopoly) searches. (In a recent attic cleanup, I tossed all of my Cibachrome wet darkroom gear - haven't mixed chemicals in 20 years, not going to do it anytime soon...)
The only way for you to get any cred at this point is to give us the URLs for some of your gallery exhibitions. Without that, we'll all consider you a poser.
Umm, "silver cameras" are not analog in the slightest. The film is covered with molecules of silver halides, which trap photons when exposed. During the process of developing the film, the chemicals separate out the "1's" (the molecules which have trapped a photon) from the "0's" (those that haven't).
The notion of "grain" in photography inherently backs up the notion that silver cameras aren't analog.
[This explanation is for black&white silver photography, the chemistry for color is different - but has the notion of some molecules catching a photon and changing color.]
I couldn't resist taunting the troll one more time...
You must be reading in the "delicious future" - I only see 32 pages....
He'd smack you alongside the head, and say 'focus on the image, not the tools'.
And, by the way, you haven't said anything that I couldn't have invented after 10 minutes of Yahoo! (avoid Google, they're the next evil monopoly) searches. (In a recent attic cleanup, I tossed all of my Cibachrome wet darkroom gear - haven't mixed chemicals in 20 years, not going to do it anytime soon...)
The only way for you to get any cred at this point is to give us the URLs for some of your gallery exhibitions. Without that, we'll all consider you a poser.
Umm, "silver cameras" are not analog in the slightest. The film is covered with molecules of silver halides, which trap photons when exposed. During the process of developing the film, the chemicals separate out the "1's" (the molecules which have trapped a photon) from the "0's" (those that haven't).
The notion of "grain" in photography inherently backs up the notion that silver cameras aren't analog.
[This explanation is for black&white silver photography, the chemistry for color is different - but has the notion of some molecules catching a photon and changing color.]
I couldn't resist taunting the troll one more time...
You must be reading in the "delicious future" - I only see 32 pages....
Which obviously explains why you are wasting your time posting here, rather than creating art for your commissioned gallery exhibitions.
Those exhibitions are a figment of your imagination, until we see the URLs.... Or at least show us some images. I can appreciate artistic vision and skill in the realization, even if I wouldn't want the picture in my home. (I see lots of fascinating stuff at SFMOMA, but no way would I put it in my house. On the other hand, I have a half dozen pieces at home from artists who have work in the collection at the de Young.)
commission famission...doesnt mean youre established; probably means unfortunate clients are being robbed by a fraud.
a widely exhibited and represented artitst/photographer?
I've never heard of you; so you must not be that known....or widely represented .....
About the ad though.......
I tried to decipher it in many ways, keeping an open mind about some possibility of relevance and not getting too deep into it....
Does the discounted shoe store mean....Microsoft has alot of selection of products/OS' with varying degree of sizes/shapes for anyone/everyone at lower prices?
lol....on another note...no idea. lol
Seinfeld phoned that one in. Hell, he slept walked through it. He must be laughing hysterically all the way to the bank (to cash in that fat 10 million dollar check) and saying to hiimself....."lol I made him wiggle his butt!" "Hahahahaa what a loser!"
Seinfeld phoned that one in. Hell, he slept walked through it. He must be laughing hysterically all the way to the bank (to cash in that fat 10 million dollar check) and saying to hiimself....."lol I made him wiggle his butt!" "Hahahahaa what a loser!"
Lol...and that hes still a Mac user
I'll have to watch it again,he's not wearing a black turtle neck is he? He's definately got the trainers and straight cut blue jeans.
A year from now we'll know what it meant.
Right now, all we know is that Bill and Jerry ran into each other at a mall, and apparently parked in the same section of the parking lot so they walked out to their cars together.
And, we know that they both like churros. There's also an odd subtext about delicious computers and a butt-wiggle, which is really most likely about "nothing".
Anything else is speculation....
i guess the kind of people who dont get it are the kind of people who probably thought Russel Brand was rubbish at the VMA's.
actually I not only thought he was rubbish, I thought he was a rude jerk for making his main joke going after the Jonas Brothers because they have pledged to stay virgins until marriage. and aren't shy about admitting this publicly.
in a world where Gossip Girl is the role model for teens these boys should be praised to taking a difficult and less popular road. not turned into a joke on live tv.
the whole thing made Brand look like a total jackass.