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TUAW Featured Video: Dennis Liu's 'Pretending to Work'

As you may recall, previously on TUAW we brought you innovative filmmaker Dennis Liu's extremely creative music video for The Bird and the Bee's song "Again and Again." Next, I managed to snag an interview with the busy Liu while he was preparing one of his next projects.

And now, though the miracle of the modern Internets, I can bring you his new project right now. Liu has been hard at work creating a fascinating new piece using a tool many of us use each and every day: Microsoft Office. And, of course, his trusty Mac and OSX. But instead of doing another music video, Liu decided to branch out and instead created a short film highlighting how easy it is to pretend to work while at the office.

Creativity is where you find it and Dennis Liu proves you can find it just about anywhere if you know where, and more importantly, how to look. Check it out.



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jack

this must be shopped. there's no way you did that with ms office '08 without killing your self more than once

March 15 2009 at 8:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
crazypenguin

Niiiice

March 13 2009 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Moose

Brilliant!

March 13 2009 at 1:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
julian

shame you use your great talent on microsoft.
that piece of junk has just given me trouble crashing right before i save all my HW and projects die
then i open again and it crashes againn.... there the recovery copy is lost
arg

March 13 2009 at 12:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pokey

Anyone catch the Apple II floppy boot noise at about a minute in?

March 12 2009 at 11:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AeronPrometheus

YouTube "Apple music video" for the inspiration for the stop motion technique used here. Kudos to whomever made this, must've taken a great deal of time.

"Again and again and again and again,

Do it again, do it again..."

March 12 2009 at 7:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
prisonnet

if microsoft had any smarts at all they would hire this guy to make all their ads...

March 12 2009 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nickux

Best use of MS office ever. If only MS had hired you to do their ads sooner and avoided the whole Seinfeld/Gates/I'm-a-PC debacle. If I weren't a sucker for OpenOffice (and were a sucker for actually buying an office suite) this video would make me buy MS Office. I can't imagine how long this must have taken. Bravo, sir.

March 12 2009 at 7:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steven

Mmm. Isn't this a viral video from MicroSoft?

March 12 2009 at 7:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
welchb

Sooo, what was that cool contact list that was embedded in the menubar? Or is that one of the ichat options? (Never use that guy - need other chat services so it's adium only for me.)

March 12 2009 at 7:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Steven

That's not a contactlist, that's fast userswitching in Mac OS X. Aparently the Mac was set up for 15 useraccounts.

March 12 2009 at 7:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
welchb

Ah ha! I'm the only user on my MBP, so I hadn't seen that either. Thanks, Steven. *(:=

March 12 2009 at 7:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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