{"id":2504,"date":"2010-12-18T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T01:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:55:16","slug":"iow-future-shock-and-bra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Future shock \u2026 and bra?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust <\/em>us, folks. We\u2019ve now seen the future and it won\u2019t look particularly pretty unless, according to the new spots created by Joe Taylor<\/strong>, Bill Kephart<\/strong>, and company, one trusts the Alleyoop.com<\/strong><\/a> service to strengthen one\u2019s skills and emerge quite employable from one\u2019s schooling years. As we\u2019ve reported before<\/a>, Kephart and Taylor have successfully entered videos in corporation sponsored \u201cchallenges\u201d<\/a> on PopTent.net<\/strong>, which awards the top winners with cash purchases of the work and acts as a sort of \u201cclearing house\u201d for marketing concepts the sponsors can use down the line. In this instance, the dynamic duo were invited by PopTent along with several other regulars to submit spots promoting the value of Alleyoop<\/a>, a product of education giant NCS Pearson<\/strong> geared towards high school students. To wit:<\/p>\n

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Both videos hinge on a \u201cback from the future\u201d conceit set cannily in that long-standing cornerstone of learning, the library, and we presume these shot in the Danville Public Library<\/strong><\/a> since fellow filmmaker Mike Boedicker<\/strong> helped out and appears briefly in the one below. The \u201cboy\u201d version, \u201cFuture Shock<\/strong>,\u201d features Brian Coutant<\/strong> as the student and Kehpart as his \u201cgingerfied\u201d older self who materializes to warn him against <\/em>using Alleyoop lest he want to become legitimately successful versus a happy-go-lucky L.O.S.E.R. The \u201cgirl\u201d version, appropriately titled \u201cFuture Girl<\/strong>,\u201d stars Sammy Smalley<\/strong> as the student and Cara Maurizi<\/strong> as her, um, highly decorated<\/em> adult self who appears to encourage <\/em>Alleyoop tutelage:<\/p>\n

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As of this writing, \u201cFuture Girl\u201d has been chosen as one of five finalists; PopTent and NCS Pearson will presumably announce the two winners shortly. Good luck to everybody!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> We trust that Kephart will refrain from bra-burning in protest even if his hysterical L.O.S.E.R. turn didn\u2019t make the cut. That crazy thing probably has a future in C-U filmmaking somewhere\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Watch out! You never know when your future self will show up in the present to sway your life choices as we see in the latest Bill Kephart\/Joe Taylor “challenge” videos for PopTent.net!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[571,361,570,360,363],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-alleyoop-com","tag-bill-kephart","tag-cara-maurizi","tag-joe-taylor","tag-poptent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}