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Re: [TCML] Tesla coils on Toyota Avalon commercial



Haven't you seen the film "The Prestige"...

    Derek

On 30/04/2013 12:14, Mark X2 wrote:
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-----
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Sent: 29 April 2013 13:46
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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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