We just finished this rather unorthodox project to promote “Black Ice”, the latest album from giants of rock AC/DC. The idea came about because we realised that many people work in offices where there’s a fairly heavy internet usage restrictions in place, and we loved the thought that we could subvert those policies with AC/DC’s music.
We decided to use the Excel format as it’s almost universally allowed through corporate firewalls. The result is the world’s first (and probably only ever) music video in Excel format, which plays back as ASCII art directly in the fields of the spreadsheet. You can download the spreadsheet here and try it out yourself.
Thursday 23 October 2008
AC/DC’s ‘Rock N Roll Train’ – the world’s first music video in Excel format
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4 comments:
You are a pure genius!
You should win Cyber Lions Grand Prix for the next three years :))
having this sort of thing get into offices through excel is a good idea, but the actual thing itself, is something that has been done countless times, whole films have been done in ASCII. It still looks good so I am not saying that this is not effective, but we all know to win a Grand Prix you would of had to been the first to do it, and that title went around the year 2001.
That said I very much enjoyed watching it.
Doesn't work in Apple's Pages & I'm not gonna reinstall that bloated virus-prone app Excel. Oh well.
Maybe its because I have an affinity for textualized pictures and maybe its because I just love AC/DC.. but this is awesome! Cheers, ;)
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