40 Comments on friday september 16, 2005 : casual friday
Leave a comment
Recent Comments
Crossing the Gilo Border into Jerusalem, 73 comments
- Matthias: Thanks Rocketboom for including such coverage. No, this does...
- il3bood10: FUCK ISREAL what they are doing to the palistinians is...
- NathanHal: Israel, in the fight to protect its citizens, in only...
- ItsDanQuayle: So what, civilians are more human than soldiers? A human...
Know Your Meme: Star Wars Kid, 70 comments
- killwhiteyvoteoboma: More hot chick, less fat fuk - thanx =)
Box Cat Make TV No Pants, 50 comments
- killwhiteyvoteoboma: WoW lookin’ very modely in this 1. More like...
- ggalen: I think they are depending on my infatuation with joanne to make...
- ggalen: Me too.
Know Your Meme: Magibon, 159 comments
- shiszzs: wow…her teeth are like and she’s white!? -.-
Time Leaps and Barrel Rolls, 66 comments
- nirajkarki: search on google.. someone’s made a nice flash program...
awsome video! I am amazed, however, in this day and age that these guys got away with their project w/o any repercussions
WOW
way cool
If they guy who put the suitcase on the side of the subway car had darker skin he probably would have been shot. It just seems like a crazy to put something that looks like it could easily be a large explosive device on a subway car after what has so recently happened in London. I can’t believe no one called the authorities to report suspicious behavior. It’s scary how easy it makes it look to target mass transit. It was still cool though.
Amazing Friday Post; abstract with moving emotion. Loved it, thnaks
Did these guys clear this project first with the MTA?
Add the uninhibited interaction with each other and our environment as well as innocence to that body count as well.
It appears that the film was made in Berlin during the summer. Check out the “moving canvas” story link.
It may have been made before the London bombings.
Music very cool
This is one of my favorite things ever!
Stories like this illustrate why we all love Rocketboom so much. How else in our busy lives would we come across something so amazingly cool? Without this moving canvas, the people on the train likely would have just stayed inside their adult shell of just going to work, throughly uninterested and uninspired. I loved how everyone became captivated and were really brought back to the wonderment of children as they watched. It really reminds me of those wonderful “Be More…” commercials on PBS where some regular person is doing something creative.
Great music, by the way.
If it was done in Berlin, I believe they could “get away” with doing that because the “German-speaking part of Europe” simply behaves. I know that’s a simplification, but if you ride the subway there, you’ll know what I mean. Even on the ecalators, everyone naturally stands on the right in case someone needs to get by. I love that. Anyway, Germans would probably look at someone sticking a box on the train and either think, “He’s a technician who works on the trains” or “He’s probably an artist sticking some sort of moving canvas to the side… I wish I was on that train”.
Besides, Germans don’t blow up people anymore. That’s so 40’s. We’ll leave all that crap to the religious people on any side of the fence you want to choose (Jihads, abortion clinics and North Ireland). Religion is the basis for all division. It always has been and always will.
Why not believe in eachother?
SOMETHING IS FISHY HERE.
Amazing. The highlight of my work day! Bravo!!
delightful friday posting
shadows and light and motion and music
period
nicely done
As several other people have pointed out, it’s incredible the got away with it, no one called the police or thought that a man putting a a box to a subway train wasn’t weird.
Never the less, WAY COOL!!! That was AWESOME!
Sharks in the Subway! I told you it was dangerous. So very cool.
nicely faked.
That something you see everyday.
I live in Germany (where the clip has been made), and for me it`s amazing to see how many people on this website associate a suitcase immediately with a terrorist attack. I`m grateful that, as it seems, here in Germany there is less hysteria about terrorism than elsewhere. Like that, it is easier to just enjoy the creative and innovative art in this excellent clip.
It is likelier to die in a car accident than by a suicide bombing, but nobody is afraid of cars, and we´re not limiting our freedom to drive. But we do limit our personal rights by laws against terrorism (f. e.: the patriot act in the US) Why do you think is that? Maybe because the media coverage of a terrorist attack is a way more spectacular than that of a normal car accident, I don`t know. What I do know is that this hysteric behaviour towards terrorism shouldn’t be normal.
What a great piece. Rocketboom is tipping the pros and cons of paying outrageous internet prices in South Africa when I move there next week. Thanks for the reason.
I do think that some liberty’s were taken in the editing of the piece to make the images appear better than they would have, but nontheless, it was nice to see.
I did have the thought of who would strap a mac mini onto a subway train and never see the little beauty again! Then I finished the clip and my anxiety was relieved. scary. very scary.
Genius!!!
And while Germany may graciously support installation/public art, I’m pretty sure that professional projects such as this still need to be cleared with the authorities, in this case probably the BVG.
mmm … friday
chunnel anyone ?
I’m beyond words. This was amazing.
Pure & simple fan mail.
I have been a podcast subscriber for a couple of months now. I really appreciate your combination of current events and off beat stuff. I look forward each day to the time when iTunes finishs downloading the day’s episode. Great stuff. Good luck and keep it up.
Thanks
=eas=
VLOG ME! â„¢
What a treat!
Wow. That’s what I love about rocketboom. You never know what’s coming next so you have to watch it every day.
Excellent!!
WOW….just turn off my intellect and absorb the imagery….amazing!!
good job, once again. thanks RB
Amanda should have been swimming with the sharks.
Serendipity-I wish we had this set up when I rode the subways in NYC! Brilliant-people terrorists are victorious when you can’t enjoy art because of how it might be misconstrued as terrorism. We need to be safe anfd prudent, but can’t live in fear. Don’t let them win.
wouw… this is great i love this, you can actually see stuff like that and they could make the subways more interesting this way.
I would imagine he had permission to strap the box to the train. It would of been nice for rocketboom to have made that clear.
BLAIR said:
Did these guys clear this project first with the MTA?
September 16, 2005 10:58 AM
No . . .but you can be damn sure that FEMA would have missed it.
that was freakin awesome! i wish we could have these in nyc…
Very cool and creative. I like it.
terrorists?
i’m afraid of all the ad agencies that are going to see this.
Rocketboom finds the coolest stuff to be involved in. Keep it coming!
Did anyone see on the news, said Katrina evacuees in Houston were using the money ($2,000.00 and $4,000.00 dollars) on the FEMA and Red Cross (MasterCard) Debit Cards provided to them using money for Strip-Joints (and drinking and drugs) and getting Tattoos at Tattoo Parlors.
The Agencies releasing these Cards (whose money came from people donating money to Charities) guaranteed “Evacuees” would only be able to use these Debit Cards for Food or Housing Expenses (they would not be able to use them for Alcohol, Tobacco, or non-essential purposes).
The Government and Aid Agencies used (MasterCard) Debit Cards so could keep an Electronic Record of how they were being used and not abused. Guess those Republican P-Diddy Drug Crack selling Felons got connections w/corrupt Gov. like Republican Fraud Billionaire Oprah Winfrey.
Ape never gets onto Ape. Monkeys with the Eyes of Blue Green.
Click “Plantet of the Apes” for link to one Local News Agency in Houston that covered the story.
That was hands down just awesome. Great concept…
standing ovation
Thanks your so great
Sieben said it best:
“WOW… way cool”
dipsticks… did anyone notice that there are NO suction cups on the suitcase he was carrying? did anyone notice how crisp the box was in the exact same position as the blurry train was moving already? did anyone notice that the art was just screened onto a film of a window view? all of that was special effects… that box doesn’t even exist. it’s a concept… not so amazing unless they actually built it
I’ve went through all the archives of rocketboom once again and i think this ist one of the coolest things you’ve done and no amanda involved…