Tanks.

Tanks are very much in the news today. Particularly since Captain Ouchie Foot is going to roll them through DC in a show of his virility and excessive testosterone. And in obvious compensation for his less than impressive artillery.

All of which reminded me of a spot we shot for PlayStation oh so many years ago.

The director was Doug Liman, who had just come off Go and was prepping for his next film the Bourne Identity and the kickoff of the very successful Jason Bourne franchise.

I'm pretty sure Doug agreed to shoot our little shitty commercial as preparation for dealing with live ammo and ordinance.

The spot was shot in a day up at an artillery range near Valencia. We rigged wires to "launch" the targets, hot dog cart, piano, etc. But we used real live explosives to obliterate them. Then we enhanced the shot in post.

The resolution on this pre-HD spot sucks. But it should be obvious that as shooting commercials go, this one was a blast.

Happy 4th of July.

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Last night I was notified my Facebook account had been suspended (again). This time for juxtaposing the picture of the drowned father and his daughter with the commentary from our heartless president, "Boring."

That violated their standards. But this cartoon, which appeared thousands of times didn't?

Fuck these Fascists.