Comments | hmpf: I think we have a new winner in the "utterly insane ways to spend your time" department

hmpf

I think we have a new winner in the "utterly insane ways to spend your time" department

Mar 31, 2009 00:08

Words fail me.

weird

Comments 4

lozenger8 March 30 2009, 22:15:55 UTC

Of course, it is both CG and an advert. But a damn hilarious one.

It's an ad, but the shepherding is real, actually. hmpf March 30 2009, 22:26:40 UTC

They got some Welsh champion shepherd(s) to do it, apparently.

(Well, okay, I suppose the article I read could be a pack of lies; didn't do that much investigating.)

Re: It's an ad, but the shepherding is real, actually. lozenger8 March 30 2009, 22:32:13 UTC

Aspects of it would be real, totally. But to that extent? CG. Almost definitely. I'll eat my hat should it turn out I'm wrong.

Re: It's an ad, but the shepherding is real, actually. hmpf March 30 2009, 23:06:33 UTC

Well, even if only half of it was real it would still win prizes in the "crazy ways to spend your time" category...

Here's an article that doesn't make it sound like that much of it was CG:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/do-tv-buyers-dream-of-electric-sheep/?pagemode=print

Then again, the exact meaning of that guy's statement clearly is open to interpretation. But, from what I've heard about shepherding, this does not *seem* particularly impossible - just insanely silly. So I'm kind of inclined to believe that most of it is real.