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I’m running for president

Posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 5:31pm. #

Well, no, not really. But hit ‘play’ and keep watching.

This is a very clever piece of customised video. Makes me think that internet advertising will get an awful lot cleverer from hereon in.

(Reading via an RSS reader? Try this to watch.)

Thanks Sam Downie for pointing this out…

6 comments

Paul Easton said at July 23rd, 2008 at 6:05pm

Brilliant! Very amusing.

Daniel Owen said at July 23rd, 2008 at 6:46pm

Great fun. Some of the grpahics pasted onto the moving images didn’t quite work, and I thought they missed a couple of good opportunities to add the name in elsewhere in the video, but it works overall.

David Allardice said at July 24th, 2008 at 5:43am

There’s a similar ad at www.thedexterhitlist.com which uses a photo you supply and some facts about the person to be “hit” which is creepily effective.

Briantist said at July 24th, 2008 at 7:11am

You can almost not see the joins..

Zarate said at July 24th, 2008 at 9:14am

Well, at least Flash used for something useful!

Cheers!

ps: i’m a Flash developer : )

Sam Downie said at July 29th, 2008 at 3:00pm

am glad to put James in the frame for this !
But than again, I was done too, so I thought I would pass it on.

Yes I agree it’s a cleaver piece of Flash Video, haven’t a clue how
it’s processed though.. any ideas?

If you want to play the same election prank on friends,
click this url and enter their names and email.. and then
stand back and watch in amazement !

http://news3online.com/spread.php

enjoy :)

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