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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.
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Boyo said 6:31PM on 3-12-2009
I can't tell you how many times ctrl+arrow key with Spaces has saved my butt, but it's a lot. I mean really I don't even wake up until after 3pm.
Hey, I getz me $hizzzit done. Eventually.
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Chris said 6:43PM on 3-12-2009
Dennis, another brilliant piece of work, thanx - sh**, someone is walking over... ctrl+arrow
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Grant said 6:49PM on 3-12-2009
Excellent video! I use iWork though because Office for Mac is soooo slooow.
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dennisaliu said 6:53PM on 3-12-2009
hey thanks guys! i really appreciate it. i had some friends help me this time.
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welchb said 7:05PM on 3-12-2009
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.)
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Steven said 7:11PM on 3-12-2009
That's not a contactlist, that's fast userswitching in Mac OS X. Aparently the Mac was set up for 15 useraccounts.
welchb said 7:13PM on 3-12-2009
Ah ha! I'm the only user on my MBP, so I hadn't seen that either. Thanks, Steven. *(:=
Steven said 7:10PM on 3-12-2009
Mmm. Isn't this a viral video from MicroSoft?
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nickux said 7:22PM on 3-12-2009
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.
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prisonnet said 7:36PM on 3-12-2009
if microsoft had any smarts at all they would hire this guy to make all their ads...
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AeronPeryton said 7:55PM on 3-12-2009
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..."
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pokey said 11:31PM on 3-12-2009
Anyone catch the Apple II floppy boot noise at about a minute in?
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julian said 12:51AM on 3-13-2009
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
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Moose said 1:30PM on 3-13-2009
Brilliant!
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crazypenguin said 6:06PM on 3-13-2009
Niiiice
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jakfoood said 8:29AM on 3-15-2009
this must be shopped. there's no way you did that with ms office '08 without killing your self more than once
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