The latest installment in the "if dumb people watch, it must be smart" genre—a category that brought us Big Brother, The Real World, Making The Band and David Blaine—is the descriptively named Band In A Bubble, airing tomorrow on MTV. Somehow, we got blueprints of the bubble.
A band I've never heard of called Cartel will be locked up inside this spherical-domed tent on one of New York City's piers for 20 days to record an album while 23 cameras stream footage to the Web. It's the usual invasion of privacy: night vision in the bedroom, a shower cam, and something called a "KFC cam" in kitchen.
While it will be a decent test of Adobe's new Flash Media Encoder, we doubt that's why a bunch of 13-year-old girls will sit outside the bubble, screaming and crying while their moms wonder where they went wrong. Anyway, these are all matters to keep in mind when you devise your own bubble using the blueprints and renderings below. (Cameras and desperate fame seekers sold separately.)
A word of advice to Cartel: See how your name is the same size as Wal-Mart's? That's a sure sign you should fire your agent. Good luck in the bubble! – Wilson Rothman
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译文:
泡泡中的演出
明天在MTV台，会播出新潮乐队Big Brother、The Real World、Making The Band和David Blaine的演出哦，他们现在可是有个超酷的名字哦：泡泡中的乐队。想知道为什么叫这个名字吗？那就看下去喽。
有个乐队叫什么，什么Cartel，反正我是从来没有听说过，马上就要被锁在纽约某个码头的一个球形、圆顶的帐篷里了，听说要20天呢。在这20天里，他们要在23个摄像头的监控下录制他们的专辑，这还有没有隐私了啊！在卧室、厨房啦都要装上夜视摄像头呢，呃，有点小恐怖。
不过这倒是个不错的测试Adobe新Flash Media Encoder的机会。我就是好奇吧，为什么那些13岁左右的女孩要坐在“泡泡”外面尖叫、哭喊，她们的妈妈一定奇怪自己的女儿一定是哪里不对劲了吧。唉，看看视频不就好了，那么疯狂干吗呀！
嘿嘿，Cartel，看看哦，你们的名字可和Wal-Mart一样大捏，真是风光啊，不管怎样，预祝演出成功啊！
– Wilson Rothman
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