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Originally Posted by speeder
I know plenty of people w good business sense who don't make these types of infomercials about their lives. If I filmed every cool thing I ever do, a 5-day road trip would take a month.
I've also worked quite a bit in advertising/commercials at a high level and yes, this video has decent "production values" but zero creativity. It's a lame Pepsi ad w/o the Pepsi, (or Doritos/Velveeta/Masingil/whatever), just complete white bread corporate crap. Sorry.  |
No, I agree with you Denis and am glad that I wasn't the only one. To me, the "Pepsi" in this video is 1) their life, and 2) indirectly their internet business. But for my generation, it's now normal to point a GoPro at someone's face for 24 hours a day with a blurry background (is that enough of a metaphor for the self-promoting culture?) and show the world how awesome MY life is. What really got me from the beginning of this project is that they called it "Endangered Experiences"... Yes it's good that young people are showing interest in classic cars, and it's not every day one drives in a convoy across the continent, but surely it's not such a rare occurrence that it's "endangered". Again, a show of self-importance more than anything. I do respect the guy for his talent and being successful in business, but maybe seeing too many Instagram posts along the line of "look at my GT3 RS to replace the Lambo I crashed" set the wrong context for the video, unfortunately.
Sorry for the rest of you who liked the video, that I sound as bitter as certain old farts on the OT.
