Steve Jobs look-alike selling Taiwanese tea

Steve Jobs 'Lookalike'' in Taiwan TV Ad Is American Expat Brook Hall and His Future Is Busy and Bright
Taiwan's 'face of Steve Jobs' Brook Hall has a story to tell. And it's much bigger than one 21-second TV ad. Dan Bloom reports from Taiwan

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It was all smoke and mirrors, little wires and a great hair and make-up team in Taiwan, and the
magic of television editing.

And no, he's not Steve Jobs, but a longtime expat in Taiwan named Brook Hall
sure is a good lookalike for the Apple chief exec. Hall who plays the
role of "Steve Jobs" in a popular tea drink commerical airing on
Taiwan TV, he's almost a dead ringer for the tech icon -- and the
similiarity is so strong that the video has gone viral across the
globe with over 185,000 hits on one YouTube channel created by
Zenroll.

Although Hall has never been identified before as the lookalike Steve
Jobs in the recent tea commercial, he now confirms it is indeed him. However, he has a much
bigger story to tell and this blog will tell it below. Read on.

A tea company set up the advert, and it was part part of an iPad
giveaway the firm was sponsoring. The ad was not sponsored by Apple and Steve Jobs
has not even seen it, most likely, according to sources.

From Hall's perspective, the Jobs gig was -- in Hall's own words -- -- "a fun three hours to try to imitate him -- there was a great
makeup and hair team, and little wires that pull your eyes and cheeks
that can reshape your face a bit. I just studied the walk and the
speech patterns."

But Hall has moved on, and while he is
aware of the how the video has gone viral all over the world, he is concentrating on his work as a theater producer and director in Taiwan, where TV commercial gigs are just a part-time job (although he done over 60 of them over the past seven years).

True enough, the Taiwan TV ad video, just 21 seconds long, gained
worldwide traction among Jobs watchers and bloggers everywhere, from
Taipei to Tiananmen, from Mountain View to Manhattan.

The TV ad made huge waves in the blogosphere in July
-- picked up by TechEye in London and
BoingBoing (and first posted by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD on July 7))
-- giving Steve Jobs fans another viral video to file away in the
doppelganger department.


But Brook Hall is much more than a one-time Steve Jobs lookalike TV
advertisement actor, and in a recent email he explained that
he has appeared in over 60 Taiwanese commercials over the past seven
years. He came to Taiwan in 2001 and he's been here ever since.

The ''Steve Jobs'' gig was just one of many ads he has shot in Taipei.
"I've been played such characters in ads here as George Washington,
Forrest Gump, Ronald Mcdonald, Kenny G and Bono -- Neil Armstrong, too
-- as well as a lot of non-famous TV ad characters. In an upcoming
Sony camera campaign, I ama scarecrow-on stilts," Hall said.

In fact, Hall is a trained and exp

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Dear Aunty Blez, yes. same same, where YOU now?

Tea from Taiwan is an online vendor specializing in fine oolong tea. I love simple, but high-quality teas. Taiwan culture is heavily dependent on tea.

Here is (a better) SJ look-alike I prepared earlier at the National Folk Festival Canberra:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo3wu62YvG1qmcajdo1_500.jpg

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Actual credit source should go to Dan Bloom in Taiwan who started this viral video off on its internet journey, notice internet is lowercased as it should be, like radio and television, and instead of writing

[Via M.I.C. Gadget and Cult of Mac]

maybe try:

[Via first out of the starting gate Dan Bloom at ''Say It in 17 Words'' and then handed off to AllThingsD.com and then M.I.C. Gadget and Cult of Mac]

http://plogspot101.blogspot.com/2011/07/steve-jobs-lookalike-does-tea.html



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Unless I badly need an eye test (just got new prescription last week), I can't see any resemblance between SJ and this bloke.

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