Saturday, December 28, 2013

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Whaaaaat? Bruce Lee

The ping pong with nunchucks is almost unbelievable.
Sadly - Our crack staff has discovered that this is a digital creation intended as a viral advertisement for the Nokia N96 Limited Edition Bruce Lee cell phone, produced in 2008 (thirty-five years after Lee's death) by the Beijing office of the JWT (J. Walter Thompson) advertising agency. Such a good idea. The video employed a Bruce Lee look-alike actor pretending to play ping-pong against an opponent, their movements sychronized to the sounds of a genuine table tennis match, with the final audio and the visual image of the ball being added to the clip in post-production.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/pingpong.asp