http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/2009/02/04/electric-cars-come-from-the-shadows-and-feed-on-your-young/ The sporadically updated rants, ramblings, and repostings of an eccentric creative. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/2009/02/04/electric-cars-come-from-the-shadows-and-feed-on-your-young/#comment-2022 David Herron Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:23:01 +0000 http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/?p=1654#comment-2022 I've seen that commercial before, and there's an allusion you missed. The shadows look somewhat like when people are vaporized in a nuclear explosion. In that time period the nuclear bugaboo was much stronger in the national consciousness than the terrorist bugaboo is today - it being important in the cold war era for the military industrial complex to scare us with evil Russia and their nukes. In any case no matter how you slice this ad it's extremely eery. None of the EV1 ads made a decent attempt to sell the vehicle .. e.g. others extolled that there's no transmission as if that's an important selling point. The EV1 was a fun car to drive, and a beautiful machine. I got to test drive it a couple times and think it's a horrible sin what GM did to it. I’ve seen that commercial before, and there’s an allusion you missed. The shadows look somewhat like when people are vaporized in a nuclear explosion. In that time period the nuclear bugaboo was much stronger in the national consciousness than the terrorist bugaboo is today – it being important in the cold war era for the military industrial complex to scare us with evil Russia and their nukes. In any case no matter how you slice this ad it’s extremely eery. None of the EV1 ads made a decent attempt to sell the vehicle .. e.g. others extolled that there’s no transmission as if that’s an important selling point. The EV1 was a fun car to drive, and a beautiful machine. I got to test drive it a couple times and think it’s a horrible sin what GM did to it.

]]> http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/2009/02/04/electric-cars-come-from-the-shadows-and-feed-on-your-young/#comment-2019 Brenda Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:07:15 +0000 http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/?p=1654#comment-2019 exploding babies!!! i think i love you. exploding babies!!! i think i love you.

]]> http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/2009/02/04/electric-cars-come-from-the-shadows-and-feed-on-your-young/#comment-2018 Mike Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:14:04 +0000 http://tekniklr.com/wpblog/?p=1654#comment-2018 That commercial is really creepy. Cool for an intro to a Crüxshadows concert or something, but not a car commercial! That commercial is really creepy. Cool for an intro to a Crüxshadows concert or something, but not a car commercial!

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