This viral video — filmed from the perspective of a jump rope — has been sweeping the web.
Full Circle from Callum Cooper on Vimeo.
What I didn’t realize until just today was that this is a promotional film for a new design label, Kelzinski! Wow, how clever Kelzinski! I just spent 1:33 minutes watching (and rewatching) a video while subconsciously being marketed your new clothes. And I didn’t even realize it! I feel outsmarted, and quite possibly like I should just buy something in tribute to your cleverness.
Klezinski sounds like a pretty interesting fashion company:
Klezinski doesn’t believe in mass consumerables or throwaway culture. We are choosing wherever possible to use hand-made methods and to utilise sustainable manufacturing processes and materials.Hyman Klezinski was a tailor from Byalistock, Poland. He moved to London in the 1870‘s to further refine his craft in Savile Row, the golden mile of tailoring. To make life easier, he made the difficult decision to change his surname to Harris. Being both adventurous in spirit and highly ambitious, he moved to Melbourne in 1876, at the time the richest city in the world. From his shop in Collins Street he became well-known for the unsurpassed quality of his work. His client list grew to include the elite of the city, including the Governor of the Colony of Victoria.
Tropp & Berzin have founded Klezinski in honour of their pioneering great-great-grandfather. Klezinski reinstates a name that was lost to history, and continues the proud tradition of bespoke & hand-crafted apparel.
Can’t wait to see what they come up with!
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Ugh, I couldn’t watch the whole video. It honestly made me dizzy and nauseous.
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Forget marketing new clothes, I felt nauseated after watching this clip. Bleh.
dahlia / 2747 posts
makes me dizzy. >.<
rose / 937 posts
Wait, are you sure it’s subliminal messaging and not just product placement? Or you know, simply advertising done “artistically”? Because the former would mean that images show up so quick that you don’t even notice them – and from what I recall from my psych classes that technique isn’t actually something that works. But a video that is basically designed as a huge commercial or product placement, well obviously that would because it’s supposed to be consciously seen by the viewer even if they don’t know what’s it’s for as opposed to not even knowing that the image was there.
I didn’t watch it.
rose / 786 posts
I don’t know why, but it felt a little creepy.
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So dizzy, I couldn’t watch the whole thing >< it did seem a little creepy to me, too
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oh loord I feel dizzy
hydrangea / 76 posts
I got about 5 seconds in and couldn’t handle it anymore. Noneffective, if you ask me.
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I got scared
It didn’t help that the video was choppy and there would be moments where I had a girl staring up at me with the sounds still going.
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dizzy? scared (lol). It didn’t have that effect on me, but the sound was quite irritating. Perhaps, if they intended to annoy consumers into buying something to just make it stop, then they did an excellent job.
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I didn’t even notice the clothing whatsoever.
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I got dizzy and stopped watching…
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If you didn’t realize this is a promotional film, it means that it has failed.
Anyway is “Klezinski” and not “Kelzinski”
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I feel dizzzy @.@
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fail
sunflower / 264 posts
That was FUN!!
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I didn’t watch the video but I find the description convincing
. I like their concept maybe will check them out.
I don’t think the sublimial message thing should be taken so seriously, I don’t find it creepy. Of course they try to advertise- like everyone. Like every spot you see. The reason to make a video like this is to generate interst. Another common strategy. If a spot is interesting or funny people will pay attention and maybe even spread it.
It’s pretty natural. Not like nano robots in your brain.
dahlia / 2012 posts
I stopped watching, because I got annoyed with the jump rope moving too slowly.
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going to throw up if i continue watching..
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Like everyone else said, it made me dizzy. But more importantly, how did they film that?
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That doesn’t appear to be subliminal to me..
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it didn’t look like they were jump roping at all. who thinks jump rope looks like that? it honestly made me nauseated and the clothes were so uninteresting that even though i knew clothing was being marketed, i still didn’t find it worked.
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Reminds me of good quality school uniforms… Eh… Maybe it’s creepy because kids jumping rope are used in Nightmare on Elm Street, or something…
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-_-
daffodil / 1579 posts
that shit kray
sunflower / 448 posts
T-shirts and sweats? Um…no thanks.
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This only thing viral about his vid is it’s giving me a viral headache.
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i don’t really think that’s “subliminal” advertising just because they’re wearing those clothes in a trippy video. people are focusing on the trippy aspect of it, not the clothes. that’s like saying every video ever is a subliminal advertisement for the clothes people are wearing the the video. nothing about people jumping rope expressionlessly with random background noises advertises clothes to me.
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dizzzzzzzzy…….
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Fun video (:
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I was way more enthralled with that video than I should have been. I just kept wanting to go “Wheeeee! Wheeeee! Wheeeee!” lol