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Your video has the potential to become a viral success with enough 'rick-rolls' from popular websites. Remember even that John Hong guy made a lot of money!

Remember the template for success:

Video
?????
$$$PROFIT$$$
Downward Spiral
Rehab
!FIGHT!
Break up
Bankruptcy
MTV/VH1 Behind the music special
Reunion tour
Have someone non critical die, or play dead, replace them with a no talent ass clown
Goodbye tour
Another 'Goodbye' tour to milk fans, rinse, repeat
$$$PROFIT$$$

To critique the video itself:

The production values and use of eye candy are reminiscent of 1980s classics. Perhaps your costumes could capitalize on that nostalgia and bring back big hair or ill-advised sunglasses?

Your videos however could use more drama and CGI. Subtitles and foreign dialogue, for the select few which can understand it, also add to the feeling of exclusivity and novelty for the viewer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwZCyAhjz8
Glad I avoided Afghanistan by two years...

Start an act or video with a 'What the f...... or Holy Sh....' moment to grab attention, and then serenade the captive, literally, audience. Either that or more scantily clad ladies will work, just ask half of the rap world.

Subliminal message work too, they were all the rage in the 1980s.
 
It is very cool! I made the mistake of not renting one recently. I got out in the rental lot to pick up my "nice" car and man, there they were. Ouch!

I hope Alfa Romeo and Lancia come back too. Make a nice alternative to BMW and Audi. (As long as there haven't been any car tooling for Soviet steel barter deals of late.)

If it isn't raining I will see you there. Mine is the red car!
 
Beton,

This is why you'll never see me at any kind of community and/or government meeting.

I'd make this lady look like Lincoln at Gettysburg...

:D
 
Oooh my. Mumbles had better get on that slave problem.
 
statler said:
Beton,

This is why you'll never see me at any kind of community and/or government meeting.

I'd make this lady look like Lincoln at Gettysburg...

:D
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I believe a relative of hers was at the last Congress Street Garage meeting. (True story.)

Nothing a little Thorazine can't cure.
 
If anyone's been interested in what Jim Rooney at the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority has been up to, he's taken out half-page personal advertisements in all the local weeklies. South End News, Bay Windows, Boston Courant.

Hey, wait a minute ... those aren't personal advertisements, they're about the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Wait, no, they're all about Jim Rooney. Wait, no, they are about CSC.

I'm confused!

What am I getting at? Guy's got a huge ego, apparently. As huge as his head and body in the ads.
 
^^Ha!

I didn't see your post from Monday and just came in to post the same thing.

That is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. :D
 
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All Streets
Ben Fry
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population. This began as an example I created for a student in the fall of 2006, and I just recently got a chance to document it properly.
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^^ William Gibson's BAMA springs to mind.
 
Cool map. I was surprised to see so many roads in the top right corner of Maine on the New Brunswick border...not much up there. Might be logging roads.
 
Looking at the road map I can clearly see which midwestern states/counties employ county roads (one road every mile) which created a very nice grid when driving out into the sticks to visit a friend.
 
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