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“Yes!” - The Omni Video

by Linda Sharps on April 18, 2006

Our resident moviemaking experts, Grayson and Terry, shot Omni's very first commercial recently. I believe the idea was originally floated as a joke, and then suddenly there was a storyboard and cameras and someone actually Riverdancing and now…

I give you:

“Yes!”

Note: no Omni employees were harmed during the filming of this video. Well, except for Brian's dignity, but he's a fast healer.

Comments

ROTFL. Definitely worth the cost of admission. Heck, I would have paid twice what I did to subscribe to the RSS feed just for that ad!

Curt Clifton

04.18.06 12:40 PM

I couldn't believe my eyes. I just hope for Brian's sake that he was well paid. Something tells me he probably wasn't paid enough (or at all?) for this extra company enthusiasm.

Hasan Khalil

04.18.06 1:44 PM

Wonderful!!! Great add :-)

Congrats to Grayson and Terry :-D

Corentin

04.18.06 2:52 PM

I would like to say that Brian could probably make a living as a dancer :)

Wonderful!

Jan Erik Moström

04.18.06 7:00 PM

I hope he has good medical cover…

David Hall

04.18.06 7:11 PM

In OW sp4, I had to do a “download link as” to get it. It would not play in the browser.

That said, it is a cute little peace. It is true, after all. Omnigroup software is very good.

PNM

04.19.06 4:56 AM

YAY! its awesome and amusing and you probably don't want to hear any more beyond that, but it makes me think of the question:

why is he happy/dancing?

yes, as an observer I see he's coding, then he finds something and fixes it, but we need more suspense, more build-up.

I'd sympathize more if in the beginning he has a closeup and talks directly to the camera saying something even vague like “this problem has taken me X days to debug and now, NOW, finally, _I_ have the answer, I. am. a coding _GOD_!!!” then starts dancing.

oh, or a voiceover while he's looking stressed/harried.

“this is brian. brian's been coding for a bazillion hours and is about to fix the worst bug he's ever encountered to date….”

random observer

04.19.06 5:04 AM

My eyes.

mindflayer

04.19.06 6:08 AM

[...] Ahh, those great moments when someone does the Yes! dance. Well done Omnigroup. I use a lot of the software that these guys have written. [...]

mike’s place » Blog Archive » Om

04.19.06 9:25 AM

I'm about to do that same dance soon as soon as I finish my term papers. But, I won't film it ;-)

Matthew Stuckwisch

04.19.06 5:01 PM

I like it. I'm not sure if anyone outside the computer

industry…(e.g., a barely technical manager) would

understand it. So, it looks good for ZDTV.

I watched it 3 times.

Cheers,

Matthew

Matthew Barker

04.20.06 10:07 AM

If I ever visit the Omni HQ, remind me not to drink the kool aid

JB

04.20.06 2:18 PM

“I'm the LAHD OF ZE DAHNCE”

Cult

04.21.06 1:31 PM

Ah, the “Yes!” dance. I know it well.

And it's particularly well-executed in this example. Nice moves, Omni!

Ryan

04.23.06 10:44 PM

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04.24.06 12:23 AM

Brilliant. I expect to see it in the next Super Bowl.

FH

04.29.06 8:11 AM

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