When shepherds have too much time (and technology) on their hands...

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My daughter submits that this evidence that some people have too much time on their hands. At first I thought it as photoshop'd stuff, but I'm not so sure now that I've watched the whole thing.

Gotta love the Pong game, complete with score at the bottom.

 
It's very edited with carefully selected frames sequenced making the motion. You better believe for every frame they used there are 100 that were deleted.

Just takes time and a lotta patience.
 
TangoWhiskey said:
My daughter submits that this evidence that some people have too much time on their hands. At first I thought it as photoshop'd stuff, but I'm not so sure now that I've watched the whole thing.

Gotta love the Pong game, complete with score at the bottom.

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I'm betting that's for real, and notice, they only had Border Collies, only dog I can think of where you could possibly manage that. I had a couple, and a buddy had one that would herd his triplets around...that was comedy to watch. He'd head them off from the road.
 
mikea said:
It's very edited with carefully selected frames sequenced making the motion. You better believe for every frame they used there are 100 that were deleted.

Just takes time and a lotta patience.
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Most of the editing though was for time compression. You can see by the light that it wasn't multiple retakes.
 
its very edited. not real. but humorous none the less.
 
it is my opinion that it is still humorous. it is a fact that it is not real.
 
Some of it--I can sort of believe--that Mona Lisa part though...I just can't buy that.
 
Hmmm; so do those LED TVs have thousands of miniature highly-trained sheep in them?
 
I think this is a viral marketing video along the lines of that one of the aerobatic pilot whose wing fell off yet he successfully landed.

I think the long-distance shots (from across the way) are probably CGI....
 
TangoWhiskey said:
I think this is a viral marketing video along the lines of that one of the aerobatic pilot whose wing fell off yet he successfully landed.

I think the long-distance shots (from across the way) are probably CGI....
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If I hadn't seen some sheepherding and Border Collie competitions along the ways, I'd be inclined to agree with you, however, I have, and I have been amazed by it "live and in color" so to speak. Remember, these are people who have been doing this all their lives, they learned it as kids from their grandfathers, and they have the worlds most OCD smart dog that has been bred for over 40 generations to do exactly what they do, and these guys have nothing else to do everyday but move herds of sheep around like lawnmoweres to keep them from destroying a particular spot. There is a lot of stop action work going on, but I suspect it's mostly for time compression. The Mona Lisa is dubious, but not impossible (it would take a heck of a lot of work though).
 
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