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Ahh, now this is what I call a monday. Woke up early, did a little iTunes cleanup and re-charged the pod for my day at work. Got into work early to make a cappuccino, checked the email’age and the blog’age and got this in my inbox:

The official countdown is on man. Since i can’t take the day off to fly to New York i’ll have to settle for watching it tomorrow at noon.

On top of that, Mozilla silently released FireFox 2.0 (Win/’Nix/Mac) today for avid users to snag, the official release is tomorrow. I tested it out for a few and am really digg’n it. Despite the annoyance of extension mismatches without a little hacking, the process time is much faster, seems to me like page load time has increased and I’m diggin the new features and stability.

I think i’ll post a little in-depth review like I did for iTunes over the next few days. Reminds me I need to update my Now Listening/Watching stuff.

Nice way to start off a friday, check out the new iFilm Beta site. I’m really digg’n the whole Min/Max toggle on the video playback. Very nice

Quite possibly one of the best Ad’s I’ve seen in a long time. I wonder if they stayed at this hotel in Thailand? Looks like a fun honeymoon suite to me. *blink*

I can see it now. A bumch of board members sitting around a table thinking of all the crazy concepts for HD ads. “Hey I got it, let’s take thousands of gallons of paint and launch it in the sky. We can film that in HD.”

The Clean Up

Our latest TV ad - featuring massive paint explosions - took 10 days and 250 people to film. Huge quantities of paint were needed to accomplish this, which had to be delivered in 1 tonne trucks and mixed on-site by 20 people.

The effect was stunning, but afterwards a major clean-up operation was required to clear away all that paint!

The cleaning took 5 days and 60 people. Thankfully, the use of a special water-based paint made it easy to scrape-up once the water had evaporated.

Keeping everyone safe was also an important factor. A special kind of non-toxic paint was used that is safe enough to drink (it contains the same thickeners that are sometimes used in soups). It was also completely harmless to the skin.

I would have embedded it here but this deserves a watch Big-Willie-Style

I’m a sucker for a good photo, that’s obvious. But the thought of pulling up one of my shots and finding a face staring back at me where it shouldn’t have been could be a bit un-nerving. Check out this list of some errie ghost sightings pre-photoshop days.

It only takes moments to destroy hours of pain-staking precision. You’d really think they would have filmed it at a little higher quality after all that work, but hey, I’m just the viral viewer.