Wassup 2008

Oct 30, 2008 by Dan Taylor    6 Comments    Posted under: Video

Ok, really quick one here, but I think this is pure genius.  Whether you’re standing in the Red Line or the Blue Line next Tuesday matters not to me.  The important thing is that you vote.

With that said, Brian sent this over to me a few days ago, and I just have to comment on 60frame’s brilliant film.  To understand this, you’ve got to be old enough to remember the circa 2000 Anheuser-Busch Budweiser commercial featuring the Wassup crew:

Fast forward 8 years:

Like I said, it could be a McCain ad, or an Obama ad.  It matters not, but the brilliance of reaching back 8 years to re-create a popular ad, and wrap it around a message of WTF happened, is simply brilliant.

Candidate Chooser 2008

Feb 1, 2008 by Dan Taylor    No Comments    Posted under: News

I’m not one to normally write about politics, and this isn’t going to be a political post. Lord knows there’s enough political bloggers out there right now, but I actually found this link quite useful.  The Minnesota Public Radio site has developed a Candidate Chooser for those of you out there that are either:

• Completely overwhelmed by the staggering amounts of information out there about each candidate (including the slanderous counter- response tactics of some politicians and their campaigners) or
• Completely disinterested and just want the machine to tell us who to choice.

I’m hoping that it’s option 1, but in either case, give the survey a try.  I can’t stand by it’s accuracy, but given that it’s hosted by a non-profit, non-partisan public radio station, I’m hoping that it should be bias free.  Funny thing is my results actually pointed me to a guy (so yes, it wasn’t Hillary) that I’ve only vaguely heard of, and sadly probably won’t make it much past Super Tuesday; but then again…stranger things have happened