joneo 562 Posted November 18, 2007 http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1006571&cache=1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
itsbigmoni 1 Posted November 18, 2007 Ghost at a gas station http://youtube.com/watch?v=cdfRlhqVeIM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IndyTom 0 Posted November 18, 2007 The next morning, with all the good leads exhausted and most hope lost, the telephone rang. (Actually, the computer rang. The Scout uses Skype.) It was a woman named Sam. From Corsica. "Hello," she said. "I am calling on behalf of barzolff814." Barzolff814? Why, he was the person who had posted the No. 1 Haiti video! Barzolff, Sam said, wished to remain anonymous, but he was prepared to share the full story of the videos. I agreed not to reveal his real name. Then I was all ears as Sam began parroting into the phone the words I could hear Barzolff saying in the background. The 35-year-old Barzolff is a professional animator who attended one of the most prestigious art schools in France and has a decade of experience with computer graphics and commercial animation. It took Barzolff a total of 17 hours to make both the Haiti and Dominican Republic videos. He did it all by himself using a MacBook Pro and a suite of commercially available 3-D animation programs, including Vue 6. The videos are 100% computer-generated. The videos, he said, were intended as research for a feature film project he's been working on with Partizan, the France-based production company responsible for, among others, Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." When contacted to verify the story, "Eternal Sunshine" producer Georges Bermann said it was all true, and that Barzolff was "an absolute genius" who could "make anything look entirely real." To prove that he was truly behind the videos, Barzolff agreed to provide the L.A. Times with a new spacecraft video. Called "Proof," the video depicts a small version of one of the spacecraft floating above a Paris street. As the camera pans over, the viewer sees two elderly women at a cafe, one of whom is holding a remote control device. Humorously, of course, this video makes use of computer graphics as well. The movie Barzolff is working on for the big screen is about two guys who create a UFO hoax so realistic that it spirals out of their control. "For better or worse," said Barzolff, who cited being "overwhelmed" by the response to his video as one of the reasons he didn't want to go public with his name. Barzolff stressed the videos were not intended as a viral marketing ploy. His movie is still in the idea phase, and he created the hoax strictly as a "sociological experiment" -- in other words, just to see what would happen. What happened far exceeded his expectations. After he finished producing the videos, he posted them and went to bed. "I thought they would reach perhaps 2,000 people," he said through Sam. "When I woke up the next morning there were 70,000 views," on the Haiti video. "Twenty minutes later it was up to 130,000 views. It grew exponentially from there." Barzolff called the results of his experiment "entertaining, thrilling, completely addictive, and a little scary." The scary part, he said, was that in spite of the evidence, "many people refuse to believe it's a hoax." In short - fake. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...e-entertainment Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joneo 562 Posted November 20, 2007 In short - fake. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/...e-entertainment Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
naomi 361 Posted November 20, 2007 Remember watching that on youtube a little while ago and a commenter made the observation that all the palm trees are actually one tree. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
