Watch AC/DC’s New Music Video as ASCII Art in an Excel Spreadsheet
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The so-called “boss button” has long been a staple on websites that one shouldn’t be visiting from their workplace. The basic idea is that there is a fail-safe link that you can click on to make it look like you’re working, when in reality you’re catching up on sports scores or reading TMZ. The button usually triggers some sort of bogus financial projections or otherwise important looking document.
Rock band AC/DC is taking this concept to a whole new level though in a promotion for their new music video. The band’s label – Sony BMG – came up with a campaign that loads the video for “Black Ice” as ASCII art within a Microsoft Excel file. Simply download the file, open it up, and the ASCII art mimicks the motions of the real video while the song plays. You can see how it works and hear the new song in the video below:
Meanwhile, if you’d like to grab the file and check it out, it’s available on the AC/DC website. Since virtually no employer would block Excel files from being sent around the office, there is just about nothing that can be done to stop you from slacking off for a minute or two with this promotion. Clever.
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