Hmmm, this is clever and well-done. Smarter than anything a Moon hoax believer ever produced (of course, the bar is set pretty low; the high point being Sibrel getting himself punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin). Too bad the excerpted frame ruins the joke though!
petit pas from mapo_mapos on Vimeo.
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June 13th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I could see the strings!
June 13th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Obviously faked, proving the moon landing were also.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
They were edited out in post-processing.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I could have really, really, really done without the soup scene at the end. That slurping is about the worst sound imaginable.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Heh… if you know a smattering of french, you may have noticed that the video is “dedicated to those who still believe that the moon is made of cheese”.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I don’t get the soup eating part. Is it supposed to be funny? How does it relate to the rest of it?
I will never understand the French, I fear.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I don’t know if the soup is supposed to “mean” anything. I just took it to be somebody seeing what he’s “supposed” to see (per the official NASA Conspiracy Handbook) while eating his dinner.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I’ll give interpreting the soup thing a shot:
The remote control on the table has a decidedly modern appearance, so maybe it’s a showing of what we take for granted. That even if the landings had been faked in so preposterous yet painstaking a way, we have been so accustomed to the images that we watch them wall-eyed, laid back and slurping our soup.
Or maybe it’s just an animation student with nothing better to do but hone his skills.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Some of the moon-hoax believer fools commenting, lower down on the linked “petit pas” video page don’t seem to realize that the video itself is an animation (i.e. fake).
Sort of like the much better French surrealist painting of a pipe by René Magritte, with the words “Ce n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe.”)
There are still people who look at that in New York’s MOMA – Museum of Modern Art and say “But that is a pipe!” No. (Its a painting.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
June 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
(Magritte by the way was Belgian.)
June 13th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I am amazed that no one has yet commented about the title of this post! Bravo, Phil- keep the puns coming. (I got it just as I was about to browse away from this page!).
June 13th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
The soup thing?
1) It’s actually an ad for soup with the final brand shot removed.
2) It’s a reference to the final sequence in “2001″ where Bowman sees an elderly version of himself eating dinner.
- Jack
June 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Oddly enough, the husband and I were just talking about the original recordings of the moon landing being missing. Would anyone happen to know off the top of their head if they were ever found?
June 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Bramblyspam, I caught the dedication. Funny!
As for Phil’s puns, I still remember a few years ago when he had one called ‘Ghostly Spectacles.’ I remember it because I didn’t get it until a long time after I’d read it. D’oh!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I’m amazed that nobody else has pointed out the Coke bottle on the table towards the end.
June 14th, 2008 at 2:36 am
No soup for you!
June 14th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Nasikabatrachus on 13 Jun 2008 at 5:08 pm
If its any consolation I don’t think they’ll ever understand you either!
Je ne non comprendez mon diu!
June 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
“Sort of like the much better French surrealist painting of a pipe by René Magritte, with the words “Ce n’est pas une pipe” (”This is not a pipe.”)
There are still people who look at that in New York’s MOMA – Museum of Modern Art and say “But that is a pipe!” No. (Its a painting.)”
BTW< That painting hung IN MY OFFICE at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for about a week. We we’re doing some construction is ‘86 and needed a place to put things. I choose that, because I always thought it explained 20th century art better than any piece.
Now back to our show, already in progress.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Of course, it does make one wonder where the camera came from that showed him coming down the ladder if he was taking his first step…
(PS: Yes, I actually do know where the camera came from, it’s a joke…)
Robert