This is one of my favorite commercials in a long time. Never mind the online controversy over the fact that it was shot in front of a green screen and therefore "not real". It's still very creative and greatly entertaining. Enjoy!
During my undergraduate days at UC Berkeley, I was part of a fraternity called Psi Upsilon. Since "Psi U" was a primarily East Coast fraternity, it was rare for me to ever find anyone who had ever heard of it. In fact, many people thought I was making it up.
So you can imagine my surprise a few weeks ago when I was watching Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and saw my fraternity featured prominently in one of the scenes! As it turns out, the director of the movie, Michael Bay, is a Psi U brother from Wesleyan University (we graduated roughly around the same time). Small world!
Growing up as a teenager in the '80s, I couldn't help but love Jean-Claude Van Damme. I even tried becoming more flexible, so that I could do they splits as easily as he could. Well, he's now 53 years old, and he's STILL doing his famous splits. Check out this amazing commercial he did for Volvo:
On October 31, 2013, I moderated a roundtable discussion at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna, Austria. The "Explorers Panel" including Ariel Fuchs of SeaOrbiter and Bas Lansdorp of Mars One, both of whom are working on incredibly ambitious entrepreneurial ventures. The Festival was a 3-day celebration of technology innovation, with 50+ speakers, 25+ startups, and 2500+ attendees.
There were some technical glitches that prevented the introduction and conclusion from going exactly as planned, but overall the entire session went quite smoothly.
It consisted of 4 sections:
Here is the video:
Since the final edit of the public video focused more on me and the panelists than on the constantly changing slides, here is the entire slide presentation:
