Monday, October 1, 2007

Awesomely Messy



Here's a link to an awesomely messy commercial for Sony Bravia televisions. I love this commercial, but the best part is that all of this is real! Here are some stats:

70,000 litres of paint
358 single bottle bombs
33 sextuple air cluster bombs
22 Triple hung cluster bombs
268 mortars
33 Triple Mortars
22 Double mortars
358 meters of weld
330 meters of steel pipe
57 km of copper wire

And quoted from the website:
TV ad - featured massive paint explosions - took 10 days and 250 people to film. Huge quantities of paint were needed to accomplish this, which had to be delivered in 1 tonne trucks and mixed on-site by 20 people.
The cleaning took 5 days and 60 people. Thankfully, the use of a special water-based paint made it easy to scrape-up once the water had evaporated.
Keeping everyone safe was also an important factor. A special kind of non-toxic paint was used that is safe enough to drink (it contains the same thickeners that are sometimes used in soups). It was also completely harmless to the skin.


They also have some really great links to other commercials, like the one where they send 250,000 Superballs down the hills of San Francisco.

And, because I'm an idiot, and I forgot to post it earlier, here is the link.

2 comments:

melinda said...

hey do you have the link for this? it's just the image. I really want to see the ball rolling one too. You rock smitty! :-)

melinda said...

Thank you! I love the bouncy ball one!!! Did you watch the play doh bunny one? that is amazing!! Now why do people only do these things for commercials and not just "art for art's sake?" hmmm.