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The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 25th January 2004
http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984/
Note the ... modification ...
I may not really like Apple, but this is definitely one of the best ads ever.
The Mac Ad - OB1 - 25th January 2004
Haha, that was pretty funny. Sure beats those Jeff Goldblum ads.
The Mac Ad - Darunia - 25th January 2004
I hate Jeff Goldblum so much.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 25th January 2004
... who?
The Mac Ad - The Former DMiller - 25th January 2004
Jeff Goldblum was Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, amoung other roles. He did the voiceovers for a lot of Apple ads, and has always been a huge Mac activist.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 25th January 2004
Huh. Haven't seen any of the Jurrassic Park movies...
The Mac Ad - OB1 - 25th January 2004
The first movie was pretty neat.
The Mac Ad - Fittisize - 25th January 2004
Yeah...along with the book. He was also in Independence Day, I believe.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 25th January 2004
Haven't seen that either. :)
The Mac Ad - Fittisize - 25th January 2004
Daaamn. You outta watch some more movies.
The Mac Ad - The Former DMiller - 25th January 2004
Well what the hell? I figured you'd know him if I mentioned Jurassic Park so I didn't even mention Independence Day, but you didn't even see that?
<a href=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000156><img src=http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~obaoba/jeff%20goldblum2231421.gif></a>
The Mac Ad - OB1 - 26th January 2004
I actually kind of like him... not in the mac ads, but in some movies.
The Mac Ad - The Former DMiller - 26th January 2004
He's okay. He has a strange way of acting, but he gets the job done. While I thought he was average in Jurassic Park and Independence Day he was really good in the Great White Hype.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
I watch some movies... sure there are a lot I haven't seen, but that doesn't really bother me. :)
The Mac Ad - Weltall - 26th January 2004
His signature role was in "Cats and Dogs".
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
Haven't seen it. :)
The Mac Ad - geoboy - 26th January 2004
Wow. They did an excellent job of seamlessly putting the iPod on her. That has to be some of the best live action and CG integration I've ever seen. I've grabbed a few stills of the movie so you can see. It looks even better in motion with the "headphone cord physics." :)
The Mac Ad - Great Rumbler - 26th January 2004
That's pretty cool.
BTW, that commercial [the original] is one of the coolest commercials ever.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
Yes. As I said. :)
The Mac Ad - The Former DMiller - 26th January 2004
And yet, the actress in the commercial disappeared from the face of the Earth. A Mac magazine did a feature on that commercial recently and said they tried really hard to find the actress, but she hasn't been heard from in years.
The Mac Ad - Weltall - 26th January 2004
Actually, if you look closely at this in the first image, you'll notice that the I-Pod appears to be angled differently above the hammer handle as the part seen below. It's not caused by shading either, as the handle is too far away.
It's a small CGI flub, but visible enough that I caught it immediately.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
Huh?
The Mac Ad - Weltall - 26th January 2004
I dunno.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
I mean, how is that wrong?
The Mac Ad - Weltall - 26th January 2004
Because it's not seamless. They look like two different things rendered seperately, and not one object, as it should appear to be.
The Mac Ad - geoboy - 26th January 2004
I think it's just an optical illusion. You have two geometrically symmetrical objects crossing each other. And the bottom of the iPod is darker because the sledge hammer's handle is casting a shadow on it, contributing to the illusion. Plus, just look at the entire image. The woman looks like she was photoshoped onto a different background. But that all doesn't matter, because it still looks believable in motion, which is the original intent of the commercial.
I've noticed that about a lot of pictures. Sometimes a still image of video will look fake, while in complete motion looks entirely believable. And I'm not just talking about CG images. It can happen with any ordinary video if conditions are right.
The Mac Ad - A Black Falcon - 26th January 2004
Yeah, it looks like one object to me...
The Mac Ad - Dark Lord Neo - 27th January 2004
In Bio we watched an old A&E movie on DNA(one of the comercials during the break was a Reagan-Bush comerical), I can't remember if Jeff Goldblum was playing Watson or Crik though, he was playing the ecentric American one, but he was perfect for the part.