http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4&feature=player_embedded
NYAN CAT.
It's somewhere between Rebecca Black and Rick Astley, but Hatsune Miku's constant singing of nya's (or rather its cover of it) pierce the brain of over 120 million people world wide as of July 5th.
But who is Hatsune Miku?
No, really who is the signer of the nyan cat?
Oh. Turns out it's wasn't a real person. Anyway, Hatsune Miku is a vocalcoid program that people use to make songs with and appearently did well enough to do a live concert. With an hologram.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6udITI9IQ&feature=player_embedded
Which is good because is some crazy fan rips out an hologram, the company can still use it. like the song they ripped from them. (Maybe. I don't know. You know much better than me!)
Another song they
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJaripp6-g
Leekspin. This gal has 2 meme under her belt, and she's not even real!
Anyway, let's go to a commercial break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWFbh69Hzg&feature=related
That commercial was from AKB 48 who has released their 62nd member, do they have one for every prefecture of Japan?, Eguchi Aimi. listen to her announcement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ji3R_gVWDw&feature=player_embedded
So, what do you think of her? Well, too bad she's not real. It's was just an advertising ploy for a candy commercial. What a waste. She might be the first one to jump over the uncanny valley, and it's just for a candy commercial.
Here's how they did it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpYpRobez4
is it me or I feel like whole country of Japan is not real?
This photoshop pop star and vocaloid signing sensation reminds me of our fisrt review, and yes I wrote an 500 word prelude for this, Pixel Perfect.
Pixel Perfect is Disney Channel Original Movie made in 2005, starting Ricky Ullman. The story starts with Ricky Ullman or Roscoe showing a virtual cat to his UST friend, Samantha. Well, this has an another meaning in our time, but here it's holographic cat. I don't know where's the light source, but it turns plaid. Scene cuts to an club where Samantha has an band called Infectious Measles. Really? Where the club manager shuns them for not being flashy, because sound is soooo not important anymore. Being distraught, the band looks for a new frontrunner, in a sequence a la that other more famous DCOM, and finds Loretta, girl with acrobatic moves and... singing. The group quickly finds out Loretta is an hologram made by Roscoe, which mades me wonder how did Roscoe put the laser up there without the girls noticing.
Anyway, with Loretta armed Because her right hand is unfinished and now it is and ready the band, now called Zetabytes, wows the boring audience and get Sam jealous. With Roscoe and Loretta now shipping, Roscoe and his friend go on a double date with Sam and Loretta in a diner with a conviently placed laser. Unforunately the computer has a meltdown, which leads to all kind of visual hi-jinks of Loretta until the program is saved. After that pointless scene, the band gets a new song and gets the approval of the club manager with Sam being jealous, when Sam finds out Loretta is actually part her!Specifically, her eyes and ears. In other news, the club finds out Loretta is an hologram, and they are... quite fine. After our compulsory girl go out montage, the band recording with Loretta?! Geezes, could they have just downloaded her singing? Oh sorry, you needed another 'Sam is jealous' scene.
So Sam is umpteenly jealous, because 'things don't go way I want to' and Loretta goes to our standard is AI human? and stupid copyright laws. Then Loretta uploads herself to the internet, and finds the whole new world, because that how programs look at internet. Whole scene is just weird, There's a trucker, who's that suppose to mean, and server is a black hole and and email and blurry security dogs, and what the heck is this? How could a programs expect there's going to be holographic AI singer who might need assistance, I mean there's no else to speak to!
Anyway, Sam gets Loretta, how the hell does she know that?, and Sam finally blows up the love interest and after some pointless scenes, Loretta uploads to the internet again, and Sam fills in for Loretta, which inevitably leads to Sam in the hospital. Loretta then decide to go inside the ECG, but Roscoe says "you can't go out." I Have a problem with this, the ECG only output information, there's no way you override into the person's brain, and... Loretta's already there. Instead of seeing neurons, Loretta sees an barren landscape with an starving Sam, and this weird scene, Sam becomes Loretta (what?),mentally, and enjoy the rain before... dying, I suppose. In all, Sam's memorial song becomes a hit and.. Loretta bcomes Zetabytes's guardian angel? How the hell does a program an guardian angel, of all gods?
This movie is bad, not bad as other DCOMs, bad nevertheless. It's has loose plot, producer and Max for example, and has some unnecessary scenes. But overall, It's a good approach to imagining AI singer scenario, least better than s1m0ne, which became a virtually reality in just 5 years.
Thanks for reading this review of Pixel Perfect, I hope I'll do more soon, and leave some old Disney or Nick movie or series in the comments. This is been Davidkkimlive production, bye!
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