But Did You See the Moonwalking Bear?
There is a well-known series of videos produced by Transport for London about cycling safety. One of them is colloquially known as the moonwalking bear ad.
The ad begins with a voiceover:
“This is an awareness test. How many passes does the team in white make?”
As the video continues, you see two teams of four people each. One team is in white shirts and the other in black. The players on each team dart around a basketball court, intermingling, passing the ball among their fellow team members.
The first time I saw the video, the perfectionist side of my personality took over, and I obsessed about getting the count right. It was difficult to track the movement of just the white team’s ball and ignore ...
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