C=Q/V -
October 28th, 2005
Capacitance.
Continuing to link to other peoples blog posts as fuel, I just need ot write this down quickly before I hit the north for the weekend and forget about it…
Tom A mentions the under-construction Dubai mega-complex. It makes me think; they’re storing their oil wealth. This grand construction project is a capacitor to store their capital and manpower in the lean times ahead. I wonder if this is the same as the giant monuments of older collapsing societies. Obvious example, the Easter Island statues, they got bigger and bigger as the society drove itself towards the end. These were spiritual capacitors trying desperately to convert the islands dwindling resources into holy goodwill. Moral of the story? I dunno.
Anyway, have a good weekend.
Sea Minerals -
October 28th, 2005
In response to Neils post about unintended ad features*. First up I totally agree with the sinister hoard-o-mechanics hallucination in the AA one, all you need is an unsettling ambient drone and that ad could be part of Dawn of the Dead, infact when I think of the scene I’m sure it does actually have an unsettling ambient drone.
Not so sure about the Heart FM commercial, that’s not sinister, just crap. I’ve not seen the Royal Mail ad.
My current favourite unintended ad feature is the bit in the Head and Shoulders commercial where the voice over person runs the words ’sea minerals’ together to hilarious and purile effect. Not the kind of salty goodness I’d want to rub into my scalp every morning. fnrk! (sorry)
*20six is asking me to type in some letters from one of those distorted .gifs but the link is broken so i can’t se the picture.