Lovely image from Pierre Ballouhey on the smog in the Olympic city of Beijing here
and please update your bookmarks to Matt Buck’s website, which has moved to here.
Even if I didn’t know Matt, I’d say that he has potentially come up with concept similar to Steve Bell’s John Major/underpants caricature with ‘The Miliband Kid’.(see his site.)
Despite the commercial not being aired for some time, I think the Milky Bar Kid (he’s strong and tough) will be known to a younger generation as well as us old farts.
I assume he hasn’t been able to use the Milky Bar music for copyright reasons but he has found a reasonable substitute.
Of course, whether the concept has longevity will depend on whether Miliband does….
NB If your viewing from my blog’s feed, the flash animation may not be visible so you may have to view it on my site – sorry- gremlins.
This is very much a draft and, considering the time taken, I’m a bit unsure whether to continue.
UPDATE – Yup, I’m bottling it, it’s not really worth continuing.
Checking with a couple of people, it’s obvious that some monitors display things the way I see them and others reveal differences in contrast which make the ‘face-swaps’ look too obvious.
The reason I thought I could do this in a reasonable amount of time was the darkness of the video which meant I could hide the shortcuts I was taking but it seems that I was wrong.
Due to the filesize, the sound quality is set to low and I’ve also reduced the number of posts on my front page for the moment.
Brown works out how to make the 42 day detention argument add up.
A different version of yesterday’s C4 News animation with widescreen mono, 78rpm quality sound.
with apologies to you-know-who. The name is omitted for the benefit of those searching the web for the genuine article but acknowledgment appears on the image.
For those arriving directly to this post (and not the blog front page), another image is here.
