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Honda's New Accord
by jessica at 3:14 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2003

] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] built out of household items.

VERY cool. I want to see the whole movie, not just the car commercial.

RE: Honda's New Accord
by sdodson at 4:32 am EDT, Apr 17, 2003

jessica wrote:
] ] This ad is most definitely a nod to the filmmakers Peter
] ] Fischli and David Weiss. Their 1987 film, "The Way Things
] ] Go" is a 30-minute-long showing of a contraption they
] ] built out of household items.
]
] VERY cool. I want to see the whole movie, not just the car
] commercial.

As an asside, this link points to a friend of mine's webspace on AT&T. He had mirrored the file on a small hosting provider that he and I both use. After the story was posted to slashdot the link to his site was the first mirror mentioned. In just a few hours he received 6,500 successful requests for the 4Mb video. At this point our provider received e-mail from his colocation facility indicating that his machine had become unavailable because the 10Mbit port he was assigned was at 100% utilization and their status monitor was alerting him of his unavailable machine. At that point the file was removed and he's redirected to his AT&T webspace. The machine still remains busy (no where near as busy though) handling just the redirection.

Behold, the power of /.

Honda's New Accord
by Andy at 1:53 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2003

I sat here with open jaw for the 60 seconds it took to watch the advertisement on my computer. OMG!

Honda's New Accord
by Elonka at 2:32 pm EDT, Apr 15, 2003

WOW.

Honda's New Accord
by Dr. Nanochick at 12:37 am EDT, Apr 16, 2003

[wow. :O -Nano]

Presenting Honda's New Accord 'Rube Goldberg' Edition
by BridgetAG at 4:57 pm EDT, Jun 30, 2003

"Six hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would have snapped and gone mad...

At one point three tyres, amazingly, roll uphill. They do so because inside they have been weighted with bolts and screws which have been positioned with fingertip care so that the slightest kiss of kinetic energy pushes them over, onward and, yes, upward. During the pre-shoot set-ups, film assistants had to tiptoe round the set so as not to disturb the feather-sensitive superstructure of the arranged metalwork. The slightest tremor of an ill-judged hand could have undone hours of work."

This is an amazing commercial that has to be seen to be believed. The company took a Honda to pieces and made a huge contraption out of it. This is done in one shot, after 606 takes. No effects, no tricks.

The crabwalking windshield wipers are creepy!

Postscript - Of course I should have known that this would have been memestreamed months ago! What a great bunch.

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