Re: [TCML] Tesla coils on Toyota Avalon commercial

[Mark X2 <susax2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Phil,
I didn't know you had a twin brother :)

2013/4/29 Phil Tuck <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Like this?
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/33962508@N03/8186477062/in/photostream
>
>
> Phil
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of dave pierson
> Sent: 29 April 2013 13:46
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesla coils on Toyota Avalon commercial
>
>
> > >> Just wondering if anyone else had noticed the new Toyota Avalon
> > >> commercial that depicts the effect of twin Tesla coil looking
> > >> devices "creating" the advertised automobile with their
> >>> electrical spark discharges?
>
> > >   Thusly?
>
> > There's certainly some element of CGI in there. They'd NEVER let
> > sparks touch the "hero car".  But it's entirely possible they had
> > a stand in car in place (painted green) and shot that as one piece,
> > then substituted in the shot of the hero car.
>
>      There is precedent.  We've all seen the pic of Tesla
>      reading in a chair, surrounded by discharge of his
>      Colorado Springs coil.  When originally published,
>      his friends back east were worried, wrote him to stop
>      taking chances.  He wrote back (roughly):
>
>         Not to worry.  First I photographed some discharges,
>         by their own light, then myself, seated, illuminated
>         by photographic flash powder only...
>
>      (The letter was included in one of the published
>       editions of Colorado Springs Notes...)
>
>       best
>        dwp
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