Intel Parody - Medical Marijuana

I guess you've really made it when someone does a parody of something you helped to create. What's the saying...."Parody is the sincerest form of flattery"?

Don LaFontaine: The Voice

A nice piece on Don.

Don Lafontaine: The King of Voiceovers is dead

I had the pleasure of working with Don for many years when I was an Audio Producer at FOX. While we may have banged heads once or twice, he once called me a "jerk" for having him re-read a line, he was without argument a true master of voiceover. His voice is on a number of spots I produced while at FOX including this one for The Abyss and The Fly. I often argued with my bosses at both FOX and later at Disney that Don's voice was overwhelming the TV world. There were times where you could hear his voice on all the networks as well as commercials and of course movie trailers. I once tried to make my case to my bosses at FOX that a network trying to create it's own identity should not be using a voice heard on every major network. I had a tape in hand of a commercial break I had recorded where Don was the voice on every spot of a commercial break, a full 2 minute break mind you. Needless to say, no one ever listened to me and Don continued to voice just about everything for everyone. I can not deny that Don's voice got your attention and elevated just about any spot to a new level.

Don actually found his way in front of the camera on a number of occasions recently appearing in this Geico commercial. There's a great parody of voiceover guys, including Don, in this piece called 5 guys in a Limo and a great behind the scenes piece from The Today Show including my buddy Joe Cipriano. Oh yeah, he used to travel from session to session in a Limo. Quite a job if you can get it.

Today there are a bunch of guys in the voiceover world saddened by his passing, secretly however, they know there's a ton of work that just opened up.

Don's been called the "King of Voiceovers" and "The Voice of God". Well now God better step aside...there's a new voice in town!

Don LaFontaine Dies At 68

Urgent! Help Dr. Jones! Excerpt from UNDER OUR SKIN (2 min)

Our son was treated by Dr. Jones. My wife and I consider him a Saint. Please help him in his fight against injustice.

The commercial JC Penny doesn't want you to see

Banned from YouTube, this spot won a Bronze Lion award at Cannes even though the client never intended it to be seen by anyone. Submitted by the production company without the clients consent. They could never have dreamed of so much publicity.

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Pork and Beans

Weezer's latest video with cameos from some of YouTubes most famous faces.

Scary Screen Sharing

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Originally uploaded by themacdaddy

This is what happened to my screen when I shared my screen with a mac I was already viewing its screen with screen sharing. Just kept on going to infinity. Had to quit screen sharing but was able to get this frame grab. Pretty cool.

Apple Mac Music Video

This is quite ingenious. Using almost every conceivable app on the mac do a screencast and make it a music video. Apple should use this as for advertising and PR

Barenaked Ladies - 789

If you love BNL and have kids now you can introduce them to some of their music.

Avid 1.0 - Media Composer Promo

Ah yes. A bit of nostalgia. I first saw the Avid in 1989 and was blown away. I didn't work on an Avid until 1993 yet it was still in it's infancy. Fun to see where we've been and how far we've come in such a short time.

Better YouTube Videos

Want to view better quality YouTube videos? Here’s how. While it doesn’t work for all videos it does work for some. Add the following character string to the end of the URL:

&fmt=18


Here’s an example of the difference.

Before....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczl9Eg7Ru8

After....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczl9Eg7Ru8&fmt=18

Pretty cool!

Intel - Touch of Genius

Long time since I've been able to post some original work. The nature of my current work usually prevents me from sharing for public consumption but finally something that's already out in the public.

Here's a piece I cut originally to be shown at CES(Consumer Electronics Show) in the Intel booth. Since CES it has undergone some revisions and also been turned into a television commercial as well as an online campaign. This was my first project cut in HD. Footage shot using a Panasonic Varicam at 24p. some of the spots from the online campaign are uploaded on YouTube by Intel and I've embedded them below.

Makes your really marvel at the power of the microprocessor and how much we take it for granted.

Shout outs to Charlie Veprek(writer) and Chris Baffa(art director) on this campaign.

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