Sunday, November 14, 2010

Schoolhouse Rock, 21st century version





5 comments:

  1. Well, hey. Somebody should say thanks for posting this.

    The style seems suitably surreal. It's like experiencing a bad dream you can't wake up from when you have a high-grade fever. The characters seem so calm, yet their message so demonic. Kind of like Ben Bernanke, himself.

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  2. Yeah, I bypassed giving it any time, because I don't need news & views communicated to me via cartoon creatures. But, I just saw it posted on 321gold.com and watched it for whatever reason.

    I guess it is a method for communicating reality truths to individuals that watch the Simpsons and Family Guy regularly. I once knew a 40yr. old man that would watch shows like that. He was a dope and on dope; so a double doper.

    It is actually extremely pathetic to find that biting truths and criticisms must be packaged like a baby toy and fed to full grown infants.

    Sociologically, this portends some bad things rolling down our main streets in the near future.

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  3. It's 101 for grunion. Simplified so that folks can get to know Ben not Break Bernanke and the committee hosses.

    Too bad their attention span won't last 7 minutes. Maybe if the female character stripped during the exchange they might hold the attention of the future lemming world order.

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  4. Don't just think of it that way. This is an example of text-to-speech and voice synthesis technology. Used well, cartoon character technology can also make a smaller file.

    There may come a day in the future when you want maximum anonymity while still doing public advocacy.

    This is anonymous -- just give your script to a cartoon character to read.

    And the smaller file size means, instead of 4 hours of video on a DVD, you might fit 32 hours of discussion onto one DVD.

    Seriously, I keep cartoon character technology in mind.... :)

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  5. John, then just go with that advertising marketing campaign for financial investing, where they've got the little baby boy in the crib doing stock trades (maybe its for E Trade, I don't know, I try not to listen to commercials).

    Put a little moving mouth on a baby -- or a put it on a 2 X 4, or a freaking dish sponge like SpongeBob. What's your point? Saving bytes? I think the concept bites, to tell you the truth.

    Anonymity? There's lots of way to achieve that, that are creative. Do you want hand puppets? A talking fart sound? Blackface whiteboys? Clowns...?

    I'm not following you? Sadly; I may have lost my sense of humor for the time being...

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