Rob Manuel » revver http://www.robmanuel.com You can also fax me on http://twitter.com/robmanuel Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:45:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Beer Beer Beer http://www.robmanuel.com/2007/07/13/beer-beer-beer/ http://www.robmanuel.com/2007/07/13/beer-beer-beer/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:06:57 +0000 robmanuel http://www.robmanuel.com/2007/07/13/beer-beer-beer/

Yes! With help from Joel Veitch and Daniele Davoli.

BTW: You can embed this vid on your site if you like.

It’s also got a few comments on B3ta.

Or download the MP3.

I also should say thanks to Simon from The Pineapple for allowing me to film and annoy his regulars on a quiet Wednesday afternoon, and props to Rob Wakefield for making some very useful suggestions and listening to me prattle on about different versions of this project for a few weeks. HUZZAH.

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I’ve been fiddling about turning my old flash stuff into videos so I can upload nice clean copies to the video sharing sites. Why? Because people are uploading my work anyway, and making it look rubbish by not encoding it properly.

You can get the complete list here, well not exactly complete but enough to be getting on with anyway.

Feel free to embed, or whatever you kids do with your upload codes these days.

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In short

  • Joel Veitch of Rathergood.com produced a song and video called Ninja in 2005
  • Coca Cola have made an advert which looks and sounds almost exactly the same.
  • Whether this is actually a copyright infringement, I don’t know, as I am not a music lawyer.
  • But I do know that it is absolutely without permission and really scummy.
  • So I’ve turned this into a short video, filmed in a 5 minute work break in the office stairwell using a webcam borrowed from the bloke upstairs. (Thanks Iain.)

BTW: I’m not just some random nutter who’s picked this up. Joel is a regular member of the B3ta community, which I co-founded, and I don’t like seeing members work getting purloined for commercial purposes without their permission / cash in their pocket.

UPDATE (3rd Jan 2007): Sky News have picked up the story and interviewed Joel, watch this on YouTube. Also a report on the BBC news site, and apparently Channel 5 and Channel 4 news have both filmed something too.

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