On the whole, “communications experts” who create ads for political campaigns are – and this is the technical term – soulless hacks with no humour, less common sense and have a modicum of talent.
Oh! And moronic.
This is why videos like Fight Fight HST were not done by Government / political folks. It is far too clever. In that same vein, the “Mayor Moonbeam” video has that appeal.
“Mayor Moonbeam” refers to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson who is in the middle of a re-election bid (remember to vote on November 19th).
The video is creative, funny, interesting and enlightening – which is why it went viral. It also apparently used some copyrighted music and was pulled from Youtube.
However, I have a copy, loaded it on my server and have it here for your viewing pleasure.
I have no idea who created and/or commissioned this video but kudos to all involved for upping the creativity in British Columbian political advertising.
For those folks who will say that I created this video…really? You think I have the technical skills, humour and talent to pull off this creative masterpiece? Why, thank-you.
I wish this was still of youtube sooo bad.
Same here – but I understand why Youtube had to remove. That said, the video lives here!
I recognize the song it scopyrighed but don’t recall the original song, does anyone know it? Also I agree with you Dave anyone with a problem with the song has no humor
“Mr Sandman” is the name of the original song.
the original song is called Mr. Sandman
The tune is from the 1954 Chordettes hit tune “Mr. Sandman”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIgrNVoux8
I do believe copyrighted material can be used in parody. The song and the lyrics were also changed, in satire, enough to be distinguishable from the original. Smells fishy to me.
The note on the former Youtube video reads:
“Mayor Moonbeam”
This video is no longer available due to a
copyright claim by MPL Music Publishing Inc.
no, satire sometimes – parody never. precedent out there. Publisher within their rights; tune is the same. Sorry. MPL = Paul McCartney. He owns copyright. I told him. Sorry you are bummed, but stealing/reworking lyrics in this fashion is out of order.
@Dave IM BEGGING YOU TO DISTRIBUTE IT!
@Marco – hopefully having the video here, chatting about it on social media etc and you doing the same will “distribute” it. But for me, really the goal is to create conversation around such videos in campaigns.
I reeeeeally want this on my iPod sooo bad, with the video too.
I just watched Mr. Sandman and this one should be different enough to be on youtube.
Gregor Robertson is outta here, 3 strikes hes out
The Thought of The Day
“It was a long and heartfelt journey, but in the end… I found what I was looking for! Good things happen for those who wait…”
Thanks for keeping this 2min ‘three years summary’ up for viewing, Dave!
You wouldn’t mind me linking this page in some of my future tweets now, would you ?
GR-eetings!
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
It’s still on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIgrNVoux8
The tune is from the 1954 Chordettes hit tune “Mr. Sandman”
Gone again from Youtube.
The closest your video was EVER to going viral would been if you’d attached a computer virus to it.
The title “Moonbeam” was stolen from from an article on Jerry Brown during his original term as Governor of CA.
To quote someone “You steal freely from bad sources”.
His opponent could have raised the level of discussion in a debate, and instead tried character assassination.
John – to be clear, I did not create this totally awesome video nor the Moonbeam title.