A Generic Kamloops Industrial Video — Hey, Kamloops, we like you, this is our home!

Posted on April 24, 2014 in Ajax // 6 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE — In place of his usual column this week, David Charbonneau offers a video, as explained below.

COLUMN — After seeing KGHM’s bland video proposing that we should start a “conversation” over their proposed Ajax mine on the doorsteps of Kamloops and then seeing a purposely saccharine video that pokes fun at the genre, I decided to make my own.

My video was inspired, not only by KGHM’s video, but by Kendra Eash’s This is a Generic Brand Video, which is a poem not a video, published on Timothy McSweeney’s website.

A stock video company in Calgary called Dissolve Stock Footage took the words of the poem and prepared This is a Generic Brand Video, this time an actual video, from stock footage.

The coincidence of videos from KGHM and Dissolve was too much for me to resist and so I took free stock footage and music to create my own satirical Generic Kamloops Industrial Video.

lee kenney // April 25, 2014 at 9:33 AM // Reply

Thats as good as Ryan Day’s T -shirt comment ! Whats next a Kami cameo ?

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Lyman Duff // April 25, 2014 at 7:49 AM // Reply

Well David, IMHO your video is as “bland” as their video. However you have an excuse, one man with limited resources. They don’t.

Tyler // April 24, 2014 at 9:50 PM // Reply

Anyone heard any “conversations” from Lacasse or KGHM lately? I thought good neighbors talked to each other.

CertainlyNotAdam // April 24, 2014 at 8:30 PM // Reply

I don’t get it, but if it’s bringing jobs to Kamloops, I’m all for it. Because I know that any project coming to Kamloops that has a video like this must be good, clean, and healthy for not only my future job prospects, but for the economy too. And that’s what matters.