Doing it by Instinct
June 22nd 2008 07:47
I was checking out TheOnion.com site, and came across an ad for Instinct, the I-phone.
Instinct’s site has set up not just the usual training video, but a bunch of spoof movie trailers, including a horror one, a kind of Mr and Mrs Smith one, good cop bad cop, a chase, and the basic ‘trailer’ in which we’re told there are no guns, no romance, no plot. (I liked the line, DOA, not LOL.)
These movies are very well made, and a lot of fun to watch (they’re too short, if anything). As well, there’s a video showing the speed of an Instinct phone compared to an everyday IPhone. The music is pure Hollywood razzamatazz which gradually dwindles away to nothing while it waits for the IPhone to load up. I’m at a loss, myself, to understand why anyone would want to bother with an IPhone of this ilk, because you might as well be on dial-up. But some people feel they have to be attached to the Internet wherever they go. (I won’t talk here about the device we took with us to Europe last year, and which nearly bankrupted us. You can see a post about it elsewhere, nor the fact that I got known for having to keep with my email and blogs as often as poss.)
One other thing on the Instinct site: if you catch the ad that says they'll pay you $20 for product placement in your YouTube home video, you'll catch another one of their mini-movies - the briefest of the lot - and also one of the funniest.
Just to go back to The Onion, a site I’ve known about for a long time, but don’t often visit, I must say I enjoy their satirical style, which somehow manages to be full-in-your-face offensive without actually doing anyone any harm. An example from 2005 around the time of the Katrina hurricane disaster:
The 4,000 Louisiana National Guardsmen stationed in Iraq, representing over a third of the state's troops, called home this week to find out what, if any, help they could offer Katrina survivors from overseas. "The soldiers wanted to know if they could call 911 for anyone, or perhaps send some water via FedEx," said Louisiana National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Pete Schneider. The Guardsmen also "would love to send generators, rations, and Black Hawk helicopters for rescue missions," but, said Schneider, "we desperately need these in Iraq to stay alive."
Instinct’s site has set up not just the usual training video, but a bunch of spoof movie trailers, including a horror one, a kind of Mr and Mrs Smith one, good cop bad cop, a chase, and the basic ‘trailer’ in which we’re told there are no guns, no romance, no plot. (I liked the line, DOA, not LOL.)
These movies are very well made, and a lot of fun to watch (they’re too short, if anything). As well, there’s a video showing the speed of an Instinct phone compared to an everyday IPhone. The music is pure Hollywood razzamatazz which gradually dwindles away to nothing while it waits for the IPhone to load up. I’m at a loss, myself, to understand why anyone would want to bother with an IPhone of this ilk, because you might as well be on dial-up. But some people feel they have to be attached to the Internet wherever they go. (I won’t talk here about the device we took with us to Europe last year, and which nearly bankrupted us. You can see a post about it elsewhere, nor the fact that I got known for having to keep with my email and blogs as often as poss.)
One other thing on the Instinct site: if you catch the ad that says they'll pay you $20 for product placement in your YouTube home video, you'll catch another one of their mini-movies - the briefest of the lot - and also one of the funniest.
Just to go back to The Onion, a site I’ve known about for a long time, but don’t often visit, I must say I enjoy their satirical style, which somehow manages to be full-in-your-face offensive without actually doing anyone any harm. An example from 2005 around the time of the Katrina hurricane disaster:
The 4,000 Louisiana National Guardsmen stationed in Iraq, representing over a third of the state's troops, called home this week to find out what, if any, help they could offer Katrina survivors from overseas. "The soldiers wanted to know if they could call 911 for anyone, or perhaps send some water via FedEx," said Louisiana National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Pete Schneider. The Guardsmen also "would love to send generators, rations, and Black Hawk helicopters for rescue missions," but, said Schneider, "we desperately need these in Iraq to stay alive."
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