But on the plus side, I’m doing a lot of baking.
Dave Bowman: You see, something’s going to happen. You must leave.
Heywood Floyd: What? What’s going to happen?
Dave Bowman: Something wonderful.
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A couple of friends found more posts about the Watchmen ad winners!
Television Without Pity has a story on the Watchmen ad, along with links to five of their favorites, including my own Ozymandias toy ad! It’s so satisfying to see people picking up on the nuances I put into the video, like the mispronunciation of “Ozymandias” by the disinterested A/V tech in the video’s pre-roll. You may also notice the copyright at the end is in roman numerals, which while not that unusual, is a touch I think Veidt would have insisted on.
The ads also showed up on sci-fi blog io9, which included four of their favorite videos — guess which familiar toy ad makes an appearance? I’m really excited that people like the ad enough to keep posting it. While you’re there, you may want to also check out a Veidt hairspray ad that is so 80s it’s almost unhealthy.
My Ozymandias commercial was picked as one of the winners in YouTube’s Watchmen ad contest, so thanks again to the people who helped as well as everyone who voted — I couldn’t have done it without your help! I’ve won a chance to have my ad shown in the Watchmen movie, and enough money to put off going back to work for at least another week.
Maybe I should put a less-poor quality version online?
I got a massive response yesterday from my friends asking them to vote for my Watchmen video and I wanted to say thank you to everyone who voted!
The voting session is now closed, and the winners will be announced on Monday. I haven’t waited on test results like this since that time in college.
So today is the official 24 hour voting period for the Watchmen contest on youtube, and I need everyone’s help. You need to go to the Watchmen page on youtube and click on ‘Vote’.
From there, search for my video by typing ‘timtoon’ into the search box. Next my video will show up; click to watch it. If you like it, please vote it a thumbs-up!
The contest is here: http://www.youtube.com/watchmenmovie
I don’t want to sound too severe, but this may be the most important vote you cast in your entire life.
I learned another new word today:
Shambolic – adj. Chiefly British Slang
Disorderly or chaotic
As in a chaotic shambles. Gets right to the point, and is such fun to say. Thanks, Gordon Ramsay!
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It’s true, I’ve talked this way all my life
The Kids in the Hall feel my ohh-so-sincere pain.
I’m so lonely…
Despite having a Tivo, I still manage to see more than my fair share of cheap, sleazy infomercials on late night TV. I thought all of them were either Girls Gone Wild ads or those selling fake pills coyly suggesting they make “that certain part of the male anatomy” bigger. (That would be the scrotum, of course.)
That was until I caught an infomercial on Oxygen I hadn’t seen before. A cheap, sleazy infomercial for women.
I know women can feel left out when guys talk, like when my friends and I tried to explain The Legend of Zelda to one of our girl friends: the game was notable because it came in a gold cart; in it you play a boy named Link (because Zelda is the princess), who must fight the pig-monster Ganon to rescue her and the Triforce. Makes sense so far, right?
She was completely lost in our nerd jargon, which was further exacerbated by our discussion of how the mutant hooker in Total Recall (guess which one? [NSFW]) was the pinnacle of evolution.
Utterly baffled — that’s how I felt watching this Oxygen infomercial and hearing the phrase:
pink bent graduate impulse silver bullet jackrabbit
To me that’s just a string of words, but I’m amazed there’s a large percentage of women out there who know exactly what this describes. Utterly baffling.
Also, I need to get out more.
When I started a new job I had a hard time catching up with the lingo. Luckily, there’s the Double-Tongued Dictionary there to explain how to get my off-deck media to bubble up so I can monetize content across our white-label platform. Think of it as Urban Dictionary after it grows up, gets a job, and sells out.
This is my second annual rejection from both UCLA and CalArts. I guess they aren’t interested in movies about bad advice, condiment torture, picking up hookers, or Jesus Christ. Sad face. Wait, angry face!!