To make matters even more complicated, the director came up with a last-minute idea for a set piece that used only red balls, requiring Conner to hire additional PAs to sort the balls by color....
“I said to everyone on the street, ‘We’re not sure exactly what’s gonna happen, but whatever we destroy, we will fix 10 times better,’” Ranahan said....
Conner calculated that the balls reached a top speed of between 150 and 200 feet per second — or 102 to 136 miles per hour. Some bounced over houses up to three blocks over, falling into storm grates that were thought to be outside the bounce radius (San Francisco Public Works wasn’t too happy). ...
“I think our bill was $74,000 on broken windows,” said Ranahan. “And the crazy thing is, everyone loved it. The people, the neighborhood, they still come out to me and talk to me about it.”
I remember coming across this ad on one of those web 1.0 tastemaker blogs like boingboing/Colossal/NotCot. It's a kid's daydream come true in brilliant slow-motion with lots of little vignettes of...
I remember coming across this ad on one of those web 1.0 tastemaker blogs like boingboing/Colossal/NotCot. It's a kid's daydream come true in brilliant slow-motion with lots of little vignettes of reaction from people, things, and critters.
It was also the first time I heard anything from The Knife (of course this is a cover, but I liked it enough to hunt out the original and buy the LP "Deep Cuts" on CD at my local mall)
Also worth checking out the other practical-effect orgy of color that Sony commissioned for the same campaign that "involved covering an apartment complex in Toryglen, Glasgow, Scotland with 70,000 liters of paint using air cannons and explosive charges": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0bxhbPi3Q
I remember coming across this ad on one of those web 1.0 tastemaker blogs like boingboing/Colossal/NotCot. It's a kid's daydream come true in brilliant slow-motion with lots of little vignettes of reaction from people, things, and critters.
It was also the first time I heard anything from The Knife (of course this is a cover, but I liked it enough to hunt out the original and buy the LP "Deep Cuts" on CD at my local mall)
Also worth checking out the other practical-effect orgy of color that Sony commissioned for the same campaign that "involved covering an apartment complex in Toryglen, Glasgow, Scotland with 70,000 liters of paint using air cannons and explosive charges": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0bxhbPi3Q