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College Grads Create Fake Tesla Commercial That Elon Musk Loves
cartechboy (2660665) writes "Two University of Southern California grads were looking to start a digital content company so they decided to roll the dice and create a home-made (but incredibly professional looking) television commercial for Tesla — just to see if they could get some attention for it. Well, apparently, mission accomplished. R.J. Collins and James Khabushani took $1,500 and created a 60-second Tesla 'faux-mercial' dubbed 'Modern Spaceship' that is well, pretty good. Elon Musk noticed, tweeted it and has helped the thing go viral."
At least it is being manufactured in the USA man.
Surprised that in 2014 people still think that wealth has anything to do with hard work rather than innate talent, connections and lack of scruples.
(Son of multimillionaires and private school scholar here, so I'm not bitter - just saying it how it is.)
Cute commercial. The "warp" effect when he is inside the car is totally from Stargate/Early SG1 :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Public school product here, closing in on his first million. :)
Son of smart but dirt poor parents, went to public school & state university, no real connections but plenty of scruples, working my ass off for another 10-15 years and saving all I can. If/when I ever move to a warmer climate, I'd buy a Tesla with very few reservations.
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My answer: no.
This is an enjoyable commercial.
Question: why cannot the "professional" commercial makers do this sort of thing? Why are current car commercials always screaming at me?
It's not a fake commercial. It's a real commercial. They just made it without having been asked or paid.
Better known as 318230.
I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
We were coming back from dinner and it was on a trailer being towed by a white truck with Tesla stenciled on the side. It was a grey Model S with a roof rack.
Some lucky dog right in our neighborhood getting their delivery today. I bet they're excited.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Should have ended with "See your New Jersey Tesla dealer today!"
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
Doing something like this for free for a company is one of the best ways to get hired.
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I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Yeah, but when you get both working together, that's when the world changes.
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Of course if you have a big dick you don't need one.
I wonder if these guys really have no connection to Tesla in any way.
I just realized that the shared definition of a 'fake' commercial is that it was produced by someone not hired by the product manufacturer. It no longer means one that involves special effects, and hasn't for some time.
work on real ones as part of class but some HR people pass them over as it's only 2 years but you know more then the 4 year guys
It is all about being frugal. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it left.
And yet, Musk is a multi-billionaire and started out VERY middle class, with no connections or money supporting him.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Trunk monkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y
Really? I'm making under 100K in Canada and I'm driving one... Why? I don't have to line up at Costco for gas... It just goes. Ya, so it's more expensive up front compared to other cars, but it just works. I don't have to look at the gas gauge and try to figure out my next route to the gas station. I simply bypass the people making a right turn right onto the highway. Oh ya, and the carpool lanes also allow green cars... instead of being stuck in traffic going to work, I have a pass to ride the pool lane by myself to get to where I have to.
BTW my other car is an 2013 Odyssey, half the price, to go camping... It does about 15l/km fully loaded. So I get about 300km/tank... But I get there.
I eval'ed a Kia Rio 5 vs the Ody. On an unloaded trip up north, I got 5.9 on the Kia Rio (dealership let me try it for a few days) and 6.1 on the Ody (213Km trip). (I do contract work). The Telsa just blows everything away. I got pulled over on highway 12 a couple of times, because the OPP wanted to check out the car. Let's just put it this way. From requested tests, the Tesla can blow away anything for a fraction of the cost of the really beefy cars.
It was a little corny and copycat, but it had a great ending.
Table-ized A.I.
Instead of linking to some site linking to or embedding the ad from youtube,
here's the actual youtube link.
One book is all that I need.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
..and lack of scruples.
My ex-partner [he was sales, I was development] thought nothing of embezzling $50K+, and when caught "oh, it was the accountant" [whom he had personally hired].
But the cops couldn't be bothered with a squabble between partners, and he had 50K more than I did for the lawsuit...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
The key thing is that most of them are self made, and aren't born into wealth. Some 70% of them, in fact.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ne...
Honestly I'm sick of this invented war that some people call class warfare. It just doesn't fucking exist, nobody has declared war on anybody else except for the OWS types, and even then they make up less than 1% of the population themselves.
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That's why most of America drives Chinese cars. Oh, wait...
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Any real car company would have 5 minutes of disclaimers:
Car Cannot Fly.
Do not allow children to drive car.
No children were harmed in the making of this commercial.
Caution, do not look directly at the sun.
etc
etc
etc
Just like the Chinese have been able to undercut the price on SpaceX rockets?
Not saying that just because *one* of Musk's companies managed to make something (in the USA!) for less than the Chinese or Russians could manage means that *all* of his companies will have the same fortune, but there's a lot of engineering knowledge that goes into making a Tesla. Yeah, cheap knockoffs - things that don't have anywhere near the specs - will probably appear, but they won't have much penetration outside of Asia.
Tesla doesn't just "make electric luxury cars". They make electric cars that have both more range *and* more efficiency than anything which can reasonably be called a competitor (i.e highway-safe enclosed multi-passenger vehicle). I don't have a clue how they manage to beat the others so handily on efficiency, but it's a critical factor for an electric car. A gasoline car with low fuel economy can just use a bigger tank, but that strategy breaks down with batteries much earlier.
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...
'Self made' is a myth, all of them had to first develop strong and binding connections with sources of capital, influence and discreet knowledge not their own. It is as much, and more in most cases, the cultivation of these relationships as it is their talents and vision that make for success.
Its not even a toy - its a development platform for Musk for his car on Mars (when SpaceX gets him there).
Yesterday I had $ 999,999 to go, today I only have $999,998 to go; closing in on my first million!
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So basically you can fap to porn all day and the knowledge and influence will just magically appear in some cases? Or more realistically, when opportunity doesn't knock, you have to build doors?
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Just look at Bush Jr. and Romney; innate talent is highly overrated.
I think you stretch it with innate talent. Far more important are connections.
Yeah, but when you get both working together, that's when the world stays the same.
FTFY. I'm afraid you underestimate the conservative force of the well conntected :-(
The very first cars where for only the rich, until they were made commodities. Travelling on boats (or at all) used to be only for the rich, until it was made more available with steam ships. Travelling on airplanes used to be only for the rich, and now it's very affordable. Computers and smartphones used to be very expensive, and now everyone can have one for "$0" (plus a monthly contract). ABS brakes and air bags used to only protect people in the luxury cars, and now they're standard on most automobiles in the Western world.
Most things start off as being expensive and become commoditized over time. Musk et al have to start somwhere to build up the infrastructure to get reall mass production going and getting the incremental costs down (and recoup R&D).
Is the desire for instant gratification really that ingrained that you can't wait for a few years for things to work their way down?
The four-stroke Otto cycle was developed in 1861, the Diesel cycle in 1897: Ford's Model T was first build in 1908. The Tesla Roadster was first produced in 2008, and the Model S first delivered in 2012: perhaps give them to about 2018 before you start bitching?
Go UCLA, and any team that plays USC. XD
Class isn't defined by heredity.
Attaining wealth is not the same as earning it.
Wars are rarely declared by the instigators.
I'm making under 100K in Canada and I'm driving one...
Your priorities are totally messed up. You've put too much of your income into something that is depreciating rapidly.
If it works out for you, it's most likely an accident of birth -- your parents had cash.
Pretty sure I posted data debunking that theory...
Oh yeah, I did: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Next subject.
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True, but a Tesla is fun to drive. A Leaf, not so much.
3 problems.
1) The paper has no definitions for wealth of parents. They code into "no wealth", "some wealthy" and "wealthy" arbitrarily based on what it says in "Who's Who" and web searches.
2) You quote their result for "wealthy", ignoring the "some wealth" category. Thus your 70% doesn't include Bill Gates for example, yet "His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way." Most people would count that as wealthy.
Had you instead counted the "some wealth" category as wealthy as most people would, the interpretation of the report is that only 20% are self-made. Which is rather more credible.
3) You assume that the richest 400 is representative of the wealthy in general. Which is unlikely. The ones with inherited wealth may not have the get up and go, or smarts to get into the top 400, but they are still wealthy.
So basically you can fap to porn all day and the knowledge and influence will just magically appear in some cases?
Don't underestimate the number of people in the Paris Hilton category. Incredibly wealthy without lifting a finger to make it.
Or more realistically, when opportunity doesn't knock, you have to build doors?
Of course even of those coming from a background of wealth many work hard. But the point is they are not working harder than many more people who don't get wealthy. It's the silver spoon they were born with that means they get to do work that earns them a lot of money rather than a little.
No you presented data with the suggestion that the son of a successful lawyer and the director of a bank and United Way was a "self made man". A man who's parents put him through an exclusive private school and then Harvard. Bill Gates.
This is not what is generally meant by "self-made". Self-made means making it without parental financial help. Bill Gates certainly does not qualify, therefore your argument fails.
At least it is being manufactured in the USA man.
A good number of automobiles are. (Either that or in (Ontario) Canada.)
When did Ontario Canada become part of the USA? I believe the Provincial Legislature & Canadian Parliament plus the 300,000 residents around Windsor would take a great deal of exception to that.
"If stupid things work...then they are not stupid."