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Arts and Crafts: Apple's Intel commercial mashed up with Cronenberg's Scanners +

You heard about the Intel-based Mac minis that came out today? How about last month's kerfuffle over Apple's Intel ad, which is derived from a Postal Service video by the same directors?

That stuff is cool, but not as cool as David Cronenberg's 1981 sci-fi classic Scanners, in which people can telepathically explode each other's heads.

Which is why I've mashed up Apple's Intel ad with video from the "clean room" scenes in Scanners:

• Apple's Intel ad, remixed with Scanners (3.9 mb Quicktime)
• Apple's Intel ad, remixed with Scanners (3.3 mb mpeg4, iPod-compatible)
• Update: Watch it side-by-side with the original Apple ad (3.5 mb Quicktime, silent) (thanks, tkg)

If you play it side-by-side with the original Apple ad, you'll note that it matches pretty much frame-for-frame.

Details

• Right-click the links and choose "Save as..." to download the videos. (For some reason, they tend to crash my PC when I try to view them directly in the browser. Sorry if this happens to you.)
• Download the latest version of Quicktime if you can't play the video.
• Besides lots of editing and a couple dissolves, I didn't alter any of the shots, except to slow some of them them down and, in one case, I reversed the camera motion.
• I made it on my Mac using free/open source software software like Handbrake and free-ish software like MPEG Streamclip and iMovie.

Earlier: Lazy Sunday video remixed with kids rapping

categories: Arts and Crafts, Movies, Technology
posted by adm at 1:50 PM | #