Comments on: Master Plan: How Google is Going to Dominate the Entire Universe

By: turner

turner — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:46:41 +0000

BLATANT RIP OFF. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah “What Barry Says” was influenced by propaganda art but they still did it with some creativity. Stop sucking off others like some fucking design leach, student twats. Oh no Google nazis…..Fuck off.

By: paultrillo

paultrillo — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:37:02 +0000

Yeah I mean had the design scheme and motion design been original I could appreciate it. But it is like they are trying to rip it off. I saw this somewhere else first and I thought it was just a parody. The more I watched it, I found that it wasn’t. Google has done so much as far as internet communication and technology I don’t know why the backlash. I don’t entirely believe in this. I mean maybe what they are saying is true but I would still like to see references plus I am not convinced google has bad intentions just because they have power.

By: Andreas Wacker

Andreas Wacker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:32:31 +0000

When the ‘masterplan’ ‘broke’ on the internet the first 50 or so blogs discussing did NOT make any reference to the knife party original.

Back then there was also no ‘inspired by’ disclaimer on the MasterPlan website. At least that’s I remember when I looked for it.

This being the internet the problem seems to have corrected itself. Credit went back to the original work.

Instrumental part of this self correcting mechanism, and working pretty well in most parts, is google. Any decent search engine that people would want to use has to behave like this.

By: James Yi

James Yi — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:59:19 +0000

I used google to find this page.

By: Kayli

Kayli — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:57:13 +0000

Sure, he said it was fine.

By: jf

jf — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:36:18 +0000

eh!!!! conspiracy talk about google tracking or keeping record of everyone, and these idiots use GOOGLE’s own tracking software (google analytics) to TRACK visitors to their own (ie, http://www.masterplanthemovie.com) website????

BAH.

By: dudefromelsewhere

dudefromelsewhere — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:46:31 +0000

eh, and u all forgot to mention
“Trusted Computing”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1H7omJW4TI

its a ripoff too, right?

By: dudefromelsewhere

dudefromelsewhere — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:38:41 +0000

i think its good to copy styles, you learn by doing this.
and its much better to copy/being inspired, than trying to come up with an “own style”,and doing crappy looking stuff.
this kinda comments are so boring and outdated.

By: Eyeraw

Eyeraw — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:53:16 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the style and narrative structure of What Barry Says is so strong. Every moment of that film screams What Barry Says, down to the way the VO come out. Got yourself quite a recognizable ‘brand’ Simon – I wanna see the next episode!

By: Simon Robson

Simon Robson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:25:19 +0000

Jameson, are you refering to the ‘mind-mapping’ film created by Julian House and Matt Cook at Intro in London? I can’t find it on youtube though. It’s kind of a spoof of old 1960s open university films explaining psychological concepts. They made it for an instalation at the V&A museum in London and got people taking bogus tests and stuff. It was a complete spoof though…