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VIDEO: From L.A. to N.Y. in under 4 minutes
Why don't you take a road trip from L.A. to New York? Better yet, take a convertible. Even better, mount a video camera on the rear seat to capture the whole coast-to-coast trip. Now do the whole thing in time-lapse style, edit it down to three minutes and forty-seven seconds, and add French pop artist, Lacquer's soundtrack and you're on your way. Michael and Oliver Gondry did just that and the very cool results are above.
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John 8:48PM (11/03/2006)
Good thing they didn't do it in a ToyoHonda.
Classic cars for classic trips.
Well done!
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ZoomZoomin' 8:55PM (11/03/2006)
Normally, it is a tad annoying when ppl comment "that's so old," but holy crap this is old. Definitely one of my favorite videos, but it's been out for years. IT was done by the "other" Gondry creative genius.
BTW, the album is also generally pretty good, but it's import-only and DRM'ed, so I passed on that. Don't buy discs you can't copy...especially when you're gonna have to spend more than $20 for it.
Oh yeah...and it's "Lacquer"
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John 8:56PM (11/03/2006)
No but seriously guys...
No link to Laquer's homepage?
No link to the original video site?
Nothing?
I would like to know more about that soundtrack.
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Talis 8:58PM (11/03/2006)
thats awesome! I wonder what year make and model car they took. Also I wonder what Rt. they took. Those trips are hard I took at cross country road trip from NJ to AZ and eventhough it was really fun, it sucked driving that distance... Oh well. Also it was funny how the car broke down in the middle of the trip.
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John 9:09PM (11/03/2006)
According to this guy:
http://timelapse-videos.blogspot.com/2006/10/lacquer-behind.html
They took a "vintage Chrysler"
He has the video up on Youtube.
The group can be seen at their website, which is also in English:
http://www.lacquersound.com
The name of the song is "Behind".
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retsel 10:26PM (11/03/2006)
i am amazed how few corners the guy took... thats why US cars are the way they are...
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iQuack 1:25AM (11/04/2006)
"1. Good thing they didn't do it in a ToyoHonda."
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Nonsense! Had they driven a "ToyoHonda" they'd have been safer, more comfortable, and would have burned about half the gas!
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Jagan 6:05AM (11/04/2006)
Is it me or did I see them driving on the left hand side (towards the end in a tunnel)? I thought they drove on the right in the US
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the friendly grizzly 6:52AM (11/04/2006)
From the look of the dashboard, it is about a 1966 Chrysler convertible. we had its sister, a 1966 Plymouth Fury convertible. An amazingly good car; we kept it until it had 130,000 miles on it, and I wish we still had it.
As for using a NiSuToyBishiDaZda for the trip... I think not. Nor a SaaBenzAuVoGen. There is just something special about touring a big country in a nice big solid (yes, solid) land-yacht convertible. Even a sniveling collectivist lefty like Andre Codrescu (sp?) saw the wisdom of that when he toured the US in a 60s-era Cadillac convertible. (For the record, I'd prefer the Chrysler).
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Alex Nunez 9:25AM (11/04/2006)
Brilliant idea, and beautifully executed. I love that it even includes the car getting looked at by that mechanic halfway through the trip. I've never done the cross-country road trip, and all this does is fortify my desire to make that big drive one day.
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Johnny B 10:39AM (11/04/2006)
The video might have been out there for a while, but I've never seen it. I would have to say that the video is pretty cool...While the music is horrible!
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Gil 11:10AM (11/04/2006)
The music is great. It completes the video perfectly
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Richard Warren 12:59PM (11/04/2006)
Very good, I've doone the cross country thing about 7 times, the first time a friend and I went right after high school in a Country Squire and slept in the car to save bucks. Went the southern route, came back the north, took all summer. Awesome!
Liked the soundtrack
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ZoomZoomin' 1:27PM (11/04/2006)
"I've never done the cross-country road trip, and all this does is fortify my desire to make that big drive one day."
I think the speed-up adds to the romanticism and further dulls the reality. Be forewarned...the only thing worse than flying over most of the empty space you see out of the window is driving through it.
It's a big drive indeed...even with friends and rotating shifts to travel non-stop, I can vouch that it takes exactly 36 hours to get from Los Angeles to Atlanta. I've done it twice and both times it took approximately 36 solid hours on the dot, almost to the minute. I was actually amazed at how consistent the times were. I'd hate to imagine how long it takes to get to NY and back since that's on a diagonal and a much further distance. Among many other slower-paced roadtrips, I did L.A. to N.Y.C. as a kid, but fortunately remember little of it.
I sincerely hope I never have to do another long trip ever again. If I can't get somewhere in less than 4-6 hours and I have to be conscious, forget it. Give me a Jet Blue flight to NY...that's more than long enough already.
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Atlas Hill 10:48PM (11/04/2006)
THat's "Michel" Gondry, no "a." He's the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "The Science of Sleep," and many Bjork and Massive Attack music videos.
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Mark 3:05AM (11/05/2006)
Cool. Good music. I think I spotted a side trip to Zion in there; definitely Monument Valley, too.
My one cross-country journey was done solo in an early-80's 240D. Flat out it could do 80 but the road had to be perfectly flat. In the mountains it was barely able to keep up with the big rigs on the uphill sections.
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Nassos 5:07AM (11/05/2006)
Good job! Reminded me Madonna's "Ray of Light". :)
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