I believe I just spotted Kris Holm in an ad spot for Monster.com shown
during tonight’s coverage of the Olympics on NBC. Something to keep an
eye out for…
Mark
Yep, saw that one too. I was bouncing around the house and everyone was laughing at my school-girlish excitement.
-David Kaplan
Sweet! I’ve got it on tape now. I taped the late night replay of the Olympic coverage and got it.
Never settle.
john_childs
I figured out how to hook up my VCR to my computer and do video capture. I have the Monster.com commercial with Kris in it converted to AVI and DivX. AVI version is about 3.7MB and the DivX version is about 1.7MB. I also have a 19MB high quality DivX version.
I don’t know about the legalities of posting them. I’m willing to upload them to unicyclist.com but I don’t want the copyright police to come raid Gilby’s server. It would be nice to be able to post them somewhere so everyone can get a look at the commercial.
Kris’ segment is only 2 seconds at most. Very quick. Actually, the whole commercial is a bunch of quick disjointed segments of different video. But it’s still cool to see muni in a commercial.
john_childs
Just saw the monster commercial here in Canada. It was monster.ca Same commercial I assume. Kris doing a log ride. kewl.
To hell with legality - post now! I’d especially like to get the high
quality one.
—Nathan
“john_childs” <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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>
> I figured out how to hook up my VCR to my computer and do video
> capture. I have the Monster.com commercial with Kris in it converted
> to AVI and DivX. AVI version is about 3.7MB and the DivX version is
> about 1.7MB. I also have a 19MB high quality DivX version.
>
> I don’t
> know about the legalities of posting them. I’m willing to upload them
> to unicyclist.com but I don’t want the copyright police to come raid
> Gilby’s server. It would be nice to be able to post them somewhere so
> everyone can get a look at the commercial.
>
> Kris’ segment is only 2
> seconds at most. Very quick. Actually, the whole commercial is a
> bunch of quick disjointed segments of different video. But it’s still
> cool to see muni in a commercial.
>
> john_childs
Send it to people on IM or something. hint hint 
Last week, I sent an email to monster.com asking if and when the ad would appear on their page that has their commercials on it: http://www.tmp.com/TMP800/monster/monster_about.asp?type=ads
However, I doubt they will get it up there anytime soon.
As far as posting it on the web, since it is a commercial it may fit under the “fair use” part of the copyright law and can be posted, but I’m no lawyer and don’t know for sure.
Couldn’t put it up on a free site or make it available on your PC though
Morpheus?
You would be providing free advertising for Monster. They won’t sue, they
will love you.
Joe
I have put the video of the Monster.com commercial in the unicyclist.com gallery.
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/monster
There are three videos in the gallery. Two of them are in DivX format and the third is in a standard AVI format. If you don’t have DivX installed on your computer then get the standard AVI video. The standard AVI video should be playable on most media players. You can get the DivX codec at http://www.divx.com
The whole commercial is 30 seconds long. Kris’ segment in the commercial is 2 seconds long.
The three videos
Large DivX; 6294 KB; 640x480; better sound quality
Small DivX; 1524 KB; 320x240; OK sound
Standard AVI; 3230 KB; 320x240; OK sound
The Standard AVI version and the Small DivX version are about the same video and sound quality. But the standard AVI version is a bigger download.
Enjoy
john_childs
Thanks for posting the videos, John.
THANKS John - it’s nice (although I would’ve prefered 28 seconds of
unicycling and 2 seconds of other stuff.) That Ridiculator is so high!!!
—Nathan
“john_childs” <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message
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> I have put the video of the Monster.com commercial in the
> unicyclist.com gallery.
> http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/monster
> There are three videos in the gallery. Two of them are in DivX format
> and the third is in a standard AVI format. If you don’t have DivX
> installed on your computer then get the standard AVI video. The
> standard AVI video should be playable on most media players. You can
> get the DivX codec at http://www.divx.com
>
> The whole commercial is
> 30 seconds long. Kris’ segment in the commercial is 2 seconds long.
> The three videos
> Large DivX; 6294 KB; 640x480; better sound quality
> Small DivX; 1524 KB; 320x240; OK sound
>
> Standard AVI; 3230 KB;
> 320x240; OK sound
>
> The Standard AVI version and the Small DivX
> version are about the same video and sound quality. But the standard
> AVI version is a bigger download.
>
> Enjoy
> john_childs
And thanks to Mark for posting that the commercial ran during the Olympic coverage that night. That allowed me to tape the late night replay of the coverage and get the commercial on tape.
It’s amazing how much time, money and effort they put in to filming what turned out to be 2 seconds of video for the commercial. I was expecting them to use more. At least they have a few frames where you can see Kris’ face.
I was watching the Canadian coverage of the Olympics and saw a Monster.ca commercial that had a North Shore bike rider jumping off a stunt. Now if they would have just put the muni footage and the bike footage in the same commercial I think they would have something.
john_childs
monster.com add.
its cool to see this,but i’m curious if, to the non-unicycling person does? it go by so fast that the veiwer see’s not a unicycle,but the front of a bike???
> its cool to see this,but i’m curious if, to the non-unicycling
> person does? it go by so fast that the veiwer see’s not a
> unicycle,but the front of a bike???
They see it. One of my co-workers pointed it out to me earlier this week.
But it does go by quick. I wonder if the commercial is getting the proper
mind-share, because people are seeing it and not remembering what it’s for.
But Monster.com owns all the footage they shot of Kris, and they can
probably use more of it in the future…
JF
> its cool to see this,but i’m curious if, to the non-unicycling
> person does? it go by so fast that the veiwer see’s not a
> unicycle,but the front of a bike???
They see it. One of my co-workers pointed it out to me earlier this week.
But it does go by quick. I wonder if the commercial is getting the proper
mind-share, because people are seeing it and not remembering what it’s for.
But Monster.com owns all the footage they shot of Kris, and they can
probably use more of it in the future…
JF
> its cool to see this,but i’m curious if, to the non-unicycling
> person does? it go by so fast that the veiwer see’s not a
> unicycle,but the front of a bike???
They see it. One of my co-workers pointed it out to me earlier this week.
But it does go by quick. I wonder if the commercial is getting the proper
mind-share, because people are seeing it and not remembering what it’s for.
But Monster.com owns all the footage they shot of Kris, and they can
probably use more of it in the future…
JF
> its cool to see this,but i’m curious if, to the non-unicycling
> person does? it go by so fast that the veiwer see’s not a
> unicycle,but the front of a bike???
They see it. One of my co-workers pointed it out to me earlier this week.
But it does go by quick. I wonder if the commercial is getting the proper
mind-share, because people are seeing it and not remembering what it’s for.
But Monster.com owns all the footage they shot of Kris, and they can
probably use more of it in the future…
JF