Posts Tagged ‘PDC’

I was talking to Jon again earlier tonight about how it would be really cool if Microsoft (or yours truly) did a cover video using Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington’s rendition of “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” as a theme. The video would basically be a spoof of Apple’s wonderfully plain yet “cool” ads. Much like their new videos showing off Panther. But this video would simply go from Windows 95 to Longhorn with the beginning of It Don’t Mean a Thing as a backdrop.

Shortly after that we had another one of our ESP moments and both started playing Thurrott’s PDC Longhorn Aero Rocks video. He asked me “what does the screen say at 00:20?”. Remembering that I had recorded some video from the event I popped in the Microdrive and checked, it says “Welcome to Windows”.

Well of course since I found that I just had to ask what the background tune was. Jon didn’t know and neither did I. But I did know it sounded really similar to Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and I could’ve swore I heard it before on this Mitsubishi Endeavor advert. Low and behold I was right, after a quick Google search for the Mitsu ad I found out it was buy a guy named Rob Overseer from his new album titled Wreckage. The song title, Horndog, is of course perfectly suited for Longhorn, I’ve just gotta ask who came up with this one…

Now that I know this guys awesome stuff I could swear I’ve heard it elsewhere before this and judging from his lists of spots I’m sure I have. Besides the Mitsubishi ad, his music was used in Gran Turismo 3, Alias, Snatch, Any Given Sunday, and Tomb Raider 2 among many others. I’ve listened to all of his clips and I’m definitely going to be getting this album. It rocks!

So anyway those gifts I promised…
I finally converted the only two videos I managed to take of the PDC Longhorn Aero Rocks video to WMV so you can download part 1 here and part 2 here. As for that special little treat for your ears, here’s a nice link to Overseer’s Horndog as well as Armstrong and Ellington’s It Don’t Mean a Thing (maybe someone will like my original idea and do the Swing video ).

I am totally knackered! The drive back from LA was long. Luckily though, I had Dom as a passanger so I got to use the nice car pool lane all the way back which probably saved a good 45 minutes. We ordered a pizza when we got in, watched some pre-recorded TV on the MCE while reading the mayhem on the blogs. He gets to suffer in my old bed that’s in my sisters old room, and now I get to fall asleep to the sound of my laptop fan spinning at 10480RPM’s… Maybe I’ll actually unpack tomorrow and go through all the swag we got during the PDC. I must finally get things organized here that’s for sure. Tomorrow though I think I’m going to show Dom exactly what I mean by “middle of nowhere” but then also take him down to Palm Springs. So till tomorrow… Yawn.

Scoble just told me about the get together:

“Let’s meet tonight at the Hollywood grill inside of Universal Studios at 8PM (#19 on the map, close to the entrance) http://www.pazsaz.com/unimap.html.”

I’m definitely going to be there! .

Dom invited me to join him, Thomas Lee, Steve Foster, and Mary Jo Foley at a little get together at the Westin Bonaventure for coffee and a little breakfast. It wasn’t really what I expected but I was actually quite surprised by Mary Jo Foley. She’s not really like the other members of press that I’ve talked to before. She’s really quite interesting, very knowledgeable and quite cool. I had the please of driving the lot of us from the Bonaventure to the LA Convention Center, luckily we’re all still alive to enjoy this nice keynote that’s mainly about MSR.

It really kicks ass, I really enjoyed this water demo we just had, the ripples, the reflections, refactions are so much nicer when they applied their extra little effects. As an example, they had it so that when you get lower or higher in height from the water level the intensity of the reflection changed accordingly. At the moment we’re being shown new ways to think about contacts and people and the way we interact with them. And now there’s some thing really awesome called Wallop. It’s a new way to blog and to moblog from the looks of it. A way to really connect the blogs together and see the interactions between the people blogging. From the looks of it there’s a much bigger push on images in their model. But the key thing I’m getting out all of this is that they really want all the information we know that’s out there much much easier to navigate through. It’s kind of like the best of MSR brought out at the PDC . Just awesome.

I didn’t think that my quote would make it into the Seattle Times but I guess it did. I didn’t have a clue what she’d put in but it looks pretty good. Little bummed that she didn’t put MVP or mention Project Hurricane but that’s okay.