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AC/DC rock your PC with a spreadsheet
Mark Prigg, Technology Correspondent02.04.09
A spreadsheet recreating an AC/DC video has won an online award after being viewed more than two million times.
It recreates the video for Rock 'N' Roll Train using characters available on a computer keyboard. By quickly flipping between spreadsheet pages, the images appear to animate.
Last week it won a Media Guardian Award for Innovation and today it was announced it will compete for a prestigious Cyber Lions award in Cannes.
Phil Clandillon of Sony Music, said the spreadsheet was aimed at AC/DC fans who were mainly 25- to 35-year-old males, "who spend much of their day at a computer".
He said the spreadsheet was made for people banned from watching videos at work.
Mr Clandillion developed the project with Steve Milbourne at Sony Music, and a developer based in Bulgaria. It took a week to create.
Reader views (3)
Where is the spreadsheet available?
- Dallas Winston, London
Trevn , that is hard core - I have a dollar bill with Angus face on it from a Wembley Arena concert
- London Eye, UK
AC/DC fans mainly 25 - 35 males. Rubbish, I am 63 and have every album they have made. When AC/DC kicked off the 35 year old was in nappies
- Trevn, Abu Dhabi
