The Bark Side

 

Volkswagon does it again with

its Super Bowl game teaser!

Comments

[Flannista]

Thanks, Matissta, for finding and posting this.

I haven't had a lot of energy these days to be creative.

I'm up packing and am heading to Mouseland until Friday afternoon. Matissta starts school tonight. Two nights a week and all day every other Saturday for 14 months.

Our lives will change.

Let's keep barking.

[Flannista]

This is the type of ad those of us in marketing would give our eye teeth to conceive.

[treesta]

Best wishes in Mouseland, Flann. And Matiss, I hope you at least enjoy the classes you'll be taking. It's a huge commitment, and hopefully it'll pay dividends going forward. Take care, everyone!

[Flannista]

You, too, treesta.

Whaddya think of "The Bark Side"?

[treesta]

Love it. Especially love the canine version of Chewbaca, and the greyhound who comes on at the end. I forget the name of the vehicle the greyhound is supposed to be.

[Flannista]

I forgot, too, treesta, but that's the genius of this ad -- we don't have to know the name, we just know it (you know what I mean?).

[treesta]

Yeah, the other thing I love is the simplicity of the props. Two breastplates, a shoulder strap, and a backpack with a helmet, and we know the characters.

[half-a-sista]

Matisse, good luck at school. Be a good student and take an apple the first day to give to the professor or more than one if you have a lot of professors.

Flann, remember: the second mouse gets the cheese.

As to the commercial, I didn't get it and didn't think it was cute (that dog thing irked me). Liked the end of it, but wish the end had come much sooner than it did. Perhaps it's the gloomy weather here...cool, but cloudy and gray.

[Sista C]

Loved it loved it loved it.

So bummed not to see you this trip, Flann. Leaving myself at dawn-thirty on Thursday. Hoping to make a quick family trip then home on Sunday. Momma's not gonna care for the length of that stay, for sure.

Congratulations to Matiss for returning to school. That couldn't have been an easy decision and I applaud your courage in being willing to explore an entirely different career option. Though you might not have chosen this given different circumstances, I have a feeling that this is going to be exactly where you need to be.

Flann, safe travel to the sticky south. Hope that your time here is painless and perhaps, ( gadzooks!) even pleasant?

Love you both.

[frida]

At first I didn't get the dog commercial. At all. Then I think I got it...but mostly I just want to say YAY and good luck to Mattista and Flannista, stalwarts and beauties.

[Matissta]

Obviously I liked the commercial, otherwise I wouldn't have suggested it.

This is a follow up to last year's VW Super Bowl commercial, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0 It's just a teaser though. Not the real commercial that will appear on Super Bowl Sunday. I thought we all needed a little something light and fun these days.

[Matissta]

As for my schooling, I haven't talked about it with the 'sphere so I'll fill you all in now.

I'm enrolled in a certificate program for Web Design/Front-end Development. Here's a description of a front-end developer:
"The goal of a front end developer is to create clear, easy, fast pages and interfaces that will make people understand and care about the information, by putting it in context, expose its legitimacy or lack thereof, and reveal their implicit or explicit interconnection.

Front-end is not just a pretty face, it's the friendly, forward-looking interface of web development."

If a web site is attractive but difficult to use and find information, what good is it?

Anyway, I already have most of this experience through my current job and I have a BFA in Graphic Design. However, I wanted to fill in the gaps and learn some new things to make myself more marketable. It's an intense program; 15 classes in 14 months.

Depending on how this goes, I'll decide on whether or not to take the back-end developer classes. But that'll be another 14 months and more money. Oh course, you'll all be kept up on my progress.

Thanks everyone for the support. It means a great deal.

Any questions, just ask.

[half-a-sista]

Matiss, I think you will be fabulous at what you are studying if your work on Sassistas! is any indication and I think it is. Best of luck.

[Matissta]

Thank you, half-a. If this doesn't work out, it's on to making goat cheese.

[half-a-sista]

If you get to the goat cheese phase, let me know. I have two friends: one raised goats for years and the other currently has lots of goats.

[Flannista]

I have landed in Mouseland and am in a meeting. Shame on me for commenting in the midst of so much jargon.

[Matissta]

Are you making reference to my 9:31am comment or your current situation?

[half-a-sista]

Meeting still going on? Jargon still ongoing?

Matiss, after all those years of working in a bureaucracy, I can tell you she's talking about the meeting she's in and that's it's probably still going on because no talking head can go less than an hour when all they have to say would take five minutes.

Is this the last trip to the Mouse House forever?

[half-a-sista]

Matiss, do you have all your books packed and your pencils sharpened?

[Flannista]

Heading into another meeting.

[Matissta]

Well half-a, I don't know how many pencils I'll need to write on the computer screen but yes, I'm set.

Books, pens, flash drive, and money on my Metro card.

[Matissta]

half-a, I was suddenly reminded of a story. Remember Winky Dinks, the kids show from the 1950's? At one point they sold a screen you could put over you TV screen and draw along with the host.

Well, one of the neighborhood kids drew directly on the TV screen with his crayons. I'm surprised it didn't happen more often!

[half-a-sista]

I remember those magic screens. They had the ones you put on the TV and it changed black and white to really bad bands of color. I begged my mom for one of those and, of course, we never got one. I couldn't even put my hands on the TV screen when Oral Roberts told all of us in TV land that, if we wanted a healing, to put our hands on the TV screen. Yes, that's right, my fanatical mother wouldn't let her little boy get a healing from Oral Roberts. Who knows how I might have turned out if only she had let me:)

[half-a-sista]

Matiss, you're going into the CITY for a class. How brave.

Flann, you're in another meeting. How brave. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And furthermore, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Did you understand that? blah, blah, blah. As I was saying, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's enough to make any intelligent person drop their pants and moon everyone in the room.

[Flannista]

half-a: I'm dropping my pants as I type and mooning everyone here . . . in my hotel room.