OT- Really weird video on Yahoo! Sports
You are strongly urged to watch this video in its entirety (2:50). It starts out as a video of a soccer goal, and then, uh...
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/The-two-man-bicycl…
I saw two man bicycle so I was waiting for this bicycle built for two to show up...okay, I get it...
that would have made a lot more sense.
All I got was "my body, my body, your body, move your body..."
I don't speak Spanish either, but I'm not sure if that last 1:30 would make sense in any language.
That's what is know as "system redundancy" in the tech world.
Nice post :)
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:55 PM ^
The second half was just as entertaining as the highlights.
it is a promotion for 'communication rights' in the countryside in argentina so that people in small villages have access to programming that portrays and protects their cultural heritage.
The TV stuff is satirical and makes fun of the commercial programming they get on TV that that they think is pointless and vapid, which most of it is. The whole idea is that they look at what is being fed to them and reject it by turning it off.
I spent almost 2 years in South America, mostly back-packing around and in places far, far away from any kind of civilization as we know it. I was in numerous tiny villages that are so far out in the jungle/rainforest, pampas, desert, mountains, salt flats, the people that they have very limited access to that kind of crappy commercial programming and for the most part they see it and have the same reaction that most of you had watching the sequence that makes fun of it, specifically that it is ridiculous and not worth watching.
The problem is, like everywhere else, the current forms of communication that have supported their traditional cultures (mostly local radio stations) are being bought and changed to commercial formats or simply shut down to force the people to watch the major networks on TV and it is called 'progress'.