BoingBoing directs us to a previously unseen 1999 video commissioned by Al Gore's presidential campaign and directed by none other than Being John Malkovich and Adaptation director Spike Jonze. (It was first made available in the debut issue of Wholphin DVD magazine.) Dispensing with his typical, whimsical visual style, Jonze created a fairly straightforward, day-in-the-life diary, painting a nuanced portrait of a very animated and non-robotic candidate. The World's Fair blog goes so far as to wonder if its release would have netted him the "precious few votes needed to win that election," though the scene in the third act in which Gore gets high on orchid dust and trips out to his own feet on a hotel room bed may have ultimately rendered the candidate just a little too "human" for his image-makers' tastes.