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Subject: no way in hell am i doing this Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:21 am
micjer Senior Member
Number of posts : 5325 Age : 63 Location : canada Registration date : 2009-01-23
Subject: Re: no way in hell am i doing this Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:55 am
Why not?????
Holy moly what if their aim was off.
Lightning222 Guest
Number of posts : 2198 Location : here Humor : most definitely Registration date : 2009-07-26
Subject: Re: no way in hell am i doing this Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:47 pm
Now there's someone with a death wish. What some people won't do for a rush.
Reunite Moderator
Number of posts : 4993 Age : 47 Location : Here Humor : Dry and Wet Registration date : 2009-01-23
Subject: Re: no way in hell am i doing this Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:14 pm
ok I thought there is no way this can be real. After a bit of searching I found this:
"This video supposedly shows one brave soul - German engineer Bruno Kammerl - shooting down a giant plastic water slide before rocketing high into the air off a ramp at the end of the slide and landing safely in a small kiddie pool high on the hill. Soon after its release in August 2009, the video went "viral", attracting over a million views in just a few days. The slide project, dubbed the "Megawoosh" was featured on a website that supposedly offered details about the slide and its founder, Bruno Kammerl.
However, although this is certainly a very entertaining video, it does not depict a real event. In fact, the video is part of an elaborate advertising campaign designed to promote Microsoft Office Project, a project management program. The video was created using a stuntman along with clever video editing and animation techniques. In an article about the advertising campaign published on the NewTeeVee website, Janko Roettgers, notes:
Here's the back story of the waterslide video in a nutshell – or at least, what we were supposed to believe: German engineer Bruno Kammerl came up with a special type of neoprene material dubbed Softslide that his web site describes as “almost frictionless.” Kammerl’s goal was to build the longest and most exciting waterslide in the world. He started off with some tests, published videos about it on YouTube, and publicly searched for investors. Then an “influential sponsor” came along and made it possible to test the slide in the German Alps, which led to the video we’ve all seen. Roettgers explains that marketing company MRM finally "owned up" to the prank admitting that it was a viral campaign for Microsoft Germany.
As another YouTube video reveals, the initial part of the sequence was created using a stuntman secured on a rope. Roettgers notes that the portion of the video supposedly showing Bruno flying through the air is actually an animation. To make the spectacular landing sequence, the crew filmed a stuntman jumping into a pool from a wooden platform. The separate sequences where then joined together and polished via some clever editing to create a slick seamless whole.
Viral advertising videos such as this one are a relatively new trend in advertising that has shown itself to be a very successful method of promoting a product or service. Such videos tend to generate a lot of debate and speculation thereby affording the advertised product or service a great deal of exposure".
Number of posts : 4389 Registration date : 2009-02-01
Subject: Re: no way in hell am i doing this Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:29 pm
thank you, reunitie... it's nice to know that folks aren't that desperate for a thrill but instead like to see how easily we are fooled cause pretty soon we will belive nothing then maybe we will see everything
New World Orphan Member
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Subject: Re: no way in hell am i doing this Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:36 pm
This isnt fake , I am just trying to remember when a camera crew was around to film me take my daily bath.