our favorite caught on camera moments. live news bloopers and blunders are incredibly popular. because it s live. you can t take it back. you can t bleep it out. anything can happen. you know, i m a little wet, but it s okay. this is probably the coolest place literally in july 2010 a human interest story goes live on a local news and public affairs show. dave is standing by with a really cool artist. david? he goes to a fair with a talented ice artist working on a piece. right now we re joined by roland hernandez, the iceman himself. how are you? good. how are you? immediately i notice something happening to this ice sculpture. something has to happen. can i take a closer look at this because why is this your prop oh, my god, i am so sorry? i am so sorry? dude, are you serious? if that was me and my ice sculpture i m shutting it down. i m tired of guys like this. i m out of here.
attention, so we really needed to be patient and to have a kind of confidence that the story was interesting enough. the team adds credibility to the story by interviewing an actual professor of u neuromechanics who isn t in on the ruse. if you have assistive wings that have force transduction from the wings onto the engines, then it s no problem at all. even though the wings wouldn t actually work, floris hires david minting to make them look as plausible as possible. we pretended to make real wings as if we were actually wanting to fly. here s where he puts them all the time, these are kites with i m not using anymore, but they are very useful for the wind surface. this is some old wind surf gear. to manipulate the fake wings, the team creates fake mechanics using a nintendo wii controller and a smartphone. you would think the mechanics are reacting on the movement of
people wondered, is it real, is it not real? and that s, i believe, what made it so viral so quickly. those who think it s real give david a cold reception in blogs and comment sections. they were brutal to me. they called me every name under the sun, and i m very sensitive. we are reading through all the comments, thousands and thousands of people responding, it was like, it s just a piece of ice. come on, people. my station said, listen, you have some semblance of credibility left as a reporter. you d better explain what happened. david comes clean about the prank. still, he has no regrets about putting his station s reputation on the line and casting doubts on his journalistic integrity. oh, my god! i don t take myself seriously, so every so often you have a little bit of fun. if you can fool the audience and the public and have them go along with it, why not is this your prop oh, my god! i am so sorry. coming up is this woman crazy about cats? i love cats. o
the sculptor roland hernandez is creating an ice museum for the fair. some of the recognizable pieces we did were a torso of michelangelo, we did a mona lisa, we did a thinker by rodan. minutes before going live, david comes up with a mischievous plan. i thought to myself, you know what, man, i am tired of doing all this serious news. i said, what if you just bring up this giant block of ice and i ll build up this story and talk about this being your prized possession, you have had the idea for months and then the p piece deresistance, i m going to knock this thing over and it s going to shatter. resistance, i to knock this thing over and
people wondered, is it real, is it not real? and that s, i believe, what made it so viral so quickly. those who think it s real give david a cold reception in blogs and comment sections. they were brutal to me. they called me every name under the sun. and i m very sensitive. we are reading through all the comments, thousands and thousands of people responding, it was like, it s just a piece of ice. come on, people. my station said, listen, you have some resemblance of credibility left as a reporter, you better explain what happened. david comes clean about the prank. still, he has no regrets about putting his station s reputation on the line and casting doubts on his journalistic integrity. oh, my god! i don t take myself seriously, so every so often you have a little bit of fun. if you can fool the audience and the public and have them go along with it, why not is this your prop oh, my god! i am so sorry. coming up is this woman crazy about cats? i love cats.