Very OT: Check out this vid...

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Supposedly it's a viral video for the new Half Life, although some people are guessing it's for Samsung for one reason or another. Maybe something to do with the phones. I wasn't going to post this here but the vid is too fucking cool to not show you guys.



whatsinthebox.nl
 

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"Character Audio Track Missing"

I assume this video will come out with his audio later on, and it'll allow us to know what this vid is about.

It's not a phone commercial, I guarantee. One of those phones he dug for in the purse was a Sony Ericcson.

NVM, it's probably a phone commercial viral. I didn't notice the details beside the phones when he picked them up.
 
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There are a number of references to Half Life in the tiny text that flashes at the bottom of the screen, although that could just be some shit to confuse people.

If it's a phone commercial I'm going to laugh.
 

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It actually could be a joint viral campaign for Samsung and the next Half-Life. He used that phaser-type thing he found in the backpack by connecting that Samsung to it.
 
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Looking more into it, it seems that it might have been shot in the Netherlands based on the cars and their plates. Also the music is supposedly from season 2 of Lost.

I know there were a lot of tie-ins to Lost when Cloverfield came out, and this immediately reminded me of the original Cloverfield video.

From http://boards.ign.com/pc_general_board/b5027/178308832/p1/?2
Half-Life 2 sound effects, references to Black Mesa, and music from the television show Lost lead many Half-Life fans to believe that this first-person "demo film" is something more than a fan-made homage to the game, and the movie's website certainly lends itself to that idea. Whatsinthebox.nl features a pulsing cube with a question mark, along with credits naming Tim Smit as the primary creator of the video. Tim Smit is a young Dutch man who once won appeared on the Discovery Channel program Mythbusters, debunking a myth about phone books. The website's title promises that "Soon the world will find out", while poking about in the CSS files we find the phrases "Every medium, as its ancestors" and "Every pro, has his anti's, now you think about that."
Also check www.whatsinthebox.nl/anti.jpg

The text behind the cube picture on the 'Anti.jpg' page is taken from this site: http://www.loop.ph/bin/view/Openloop/DyeSensitizedSolarCells

Behind the box are words to a Tenacious D song.. Lol.

The people on this forum (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/...start=75&sid=5086e4909491d2fba1d2f54f835a4cd6) seem to have a good lock on things. of his youtube videos, a fucking Mythbuster episode (the creator of the site busted a phone book myth) and the whatsinthebox site.

After watching the Mythbusters piece they did, you can see that they wrote "Tenacious D" on a blueprint and the plate on their car reads THE D.

So somehow this has turned into a Tenacious D tie-in.

Fucking awesome... Lol.