Timing is Everything…

On the Friday before the long-weekend I was handed a DVD from a friend at Move with only a basic overview. (He said something to the effect of “just watch it… it was produced by homestore in the dot com days and a bunch of office decorations and inside jokes will make a lot more sense…”)

[photopress:home_movie.jpg,thumb,alignright]Well, back in the dot com days when I was an engineer in a relatively boring industry, the people at Move (then known as HomeStore) were obviously having a lot more fun… Seriously, having a lot more fun is the only way to explain the “Chris Smith

10 thoughts on “Timing is Everything…

  1. Dustin,

    I was there when the movie debuted at Inman. I met the alligator guy that night (forgot his name). The movie was interesting I think this was made at the height of Wolff’s ego ride. I remember him sitting on stage in a director’s chair rubbing his hands together with his “I’m king of the world grin”.

    I saw a picture of him going into the courtroom a couple weeks ago for the verdict in his trial a much different man then at Inman in 2000.

    During the hurricane that hit Louisiana I actually wondered if the alligator man and his house made it.

  2. Dustin,

    I was there when the movie debuted at Inman. I met the alligator guy that night (forgot his name). The movie was interesting I think this was made at the height of Wolff’s ego ride. I remember him sitting on stage in a director’s chair rubbing his hands together with his “I’m king of the world grin”.

    I saw a picture of him going into the courtroom a couple weeks ago for the verdict in his trial a much different man then at Inman in 2000.

    During the hurricane that hit Louisiana I actually wondered if the alligator man and his house made it.

  3. While it might be easy to write off Home Movie as a Stuart Wolff ego trip, the purpose of the film was something altogether different. The idea was born out of an advertising campaign that my partner and I developed for homestore in 1999. There were actually 6 TV commercials (included on the DVD, but never aired nationally) that were meant to market the homestore.com brand. The film came about as a natural extension of the documentary-type TV spots.

    I wish I had seen Wolff in courtroom that day. It’s good to see he will pay a price for his legendary arrogance.

  4. While it might be easy to write off Home Movie as a Stuart Wolff ego trip, the purpose of the film was something altogether different. The idea was born out of an advertising campaign that my partner and I developed for homestore in 1999. There were actually 6 TV commercials (included on the DVD, but never aired nationally) that were meant to market the homestore.com brand. The film came about as a natural extension of the documentary-type TV spots.

    I wish I had seen Wolff in courtroom that day. It’s good to see he will pay a price for his legendary arrogance.

  5. Those six television commercials that Rich mentions were shown to the company’s employees-at-large at the time (with quite a bit of pep-rally fanfare), and it’s a shame they never saw national air time, as they were actually quite quirkily engaging, and it was said that quite a lot of money and effort was spent to construct them.

    But at least their cinematic caveman commercial saw some ad-time in early 2000, eh?

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