[OT] An ad that any Squeaker would like...

Paul Chapman paul at igblan.free-online.co.uk
Tue Apr 22 07:09:17 UTC 2003


> Forwarded from a friend...
> Subject: A Honda ad worth checking out.
> 
> http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html
> 
> Trust me, worth a visit.  Flash 6 required, apparently.
> 
> stories here:
> http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/nhonda13.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/13/ixhome.html
> 
> and
> http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=12844132&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=TAKE%20606


>From the Telegraph story: "The idea for the advert derived partly from the old children's game Mouse Trap, and from the wacky engineering of Caractacus Potts's breakfast-making machine in the Sixties film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

Not at all "derived" from Fischli and Weiss's "Der Lauf der Dinge", then.

http://www.postmedia.net/999/fischweiss1.htm

It seems that art is not a story, but commerce is.

Cheers, Paul



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