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  • fergus1948

    “I hate my job.”

    Never mind, I don’t think you’ll be doing it for much longer.
    Nicely faked though!

    • RedShirt77

       Yeah, weaving secret messages into christmas displays seems like the most fun someone could have at work.  So either, this is fake, this person had already been fired or put in notice, or they have a mental illness that keeps them from experiencing joy.

      • Gilbert Wham

        You have no idea the amount of joy I would experience were I tasked to put up municipal christmas lights, and I got to try this shit on them…

  • http://twitter.com/fractos Adam Christie
    • http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

      Bah, she’s just covering her ass because she didn’t notice the tricks the contractors she underpaid got up to.

  • Boundegar

    Thank God for the Grinch who did this!

    EDIT: It’s easy to shout fake on the internet, but I dunno how you would even fake something like this. Is there a video Photoshop with a Christmas Lights in 3d filter? Is this something everybody knows about but me?

    • usonia

      After Effects is, more or less, video photoshop.

    • Syn -

      It seems it was done in after effects. Just some particles arranged in 3d, forming the shapes you want, and then tracked into that 3d space from the camera movement. 

    • Narmitaj

      It’s like the Channel 4 station idents (look out for a big “4″ materialising in the image and then disassembling). Here’s the Tokyo one, also full of lights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx8XsthXsSw   And here’s one with bunny rabbits and an abbey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pqehql1xU0   There are loads of others.

  • http://www.lettersofnote.com/ Shaun Usher
    • dnebdal

       Very well done, though.

      • GlyphGryph

        Hey, just because it’s gentle satire, that doesn’t mean it’s not real!
        The best satire would have clearly been volunteering to put up Christmas lights and then doing so. :D

  • peregrinus

    Holy jeez seriously ON the COMPUTER?  Where do I sign up???

  • SumAnon

    This was fantastic

  • Fang Xianfu

    I don’t care that this is fake, it’s made me and I everyone I’ve shown it to chortle, and thus it is brilliant. I especially like the far-flung droplet in the first one.

    • http://twitter.com/spockosbrain Spocko

      Agreed. Is it live or is is Memorex? (God I’m old.)

  • http://jeremyjarratt.com/ x jeremy jarratt

    Please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please be real in spite of evidence to the contrary please

    • anansi133

      The Grinch is real. You just have to believe. Just because he has helpers, and just because some of them use photoshop, doesn’t make him any less real.

  • donovan acree

    Reality is what you can get away with. -RAW

  • McGreens

    Wait, so did the giant rubber duck floating down the Thames really happen?

    • edgore

      That is just one letter off from being so very, very awesome.

    • euansmith

      I only read the headline about the Giant Duck thing. Something to do with teaching the British to have a laugh. If this was the case, it missed the target for me. I have a laugh. I don’t need some tosser telling me to do it. A Giant Rubber Duck is not funny. McGreens, your comment was funny. I am having a laugh.

      In unrelated news, Gideon Osborne is an appalling git. He is so bad, they named a village in the Shetlands after him.

  • Syn -

    T minus stolen for shallow commercial spot on tv in 5… 4…

  • PrettyBoyTim

    Fake, but well done.

    Good enough that several people in my office (that overlooks some of the alleged lights) went out on to the balcony to see if they could see them…

  • euansmith

    Nicely done.