{"id":696,"date":"2006-02-21T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T02:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-02-27T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T04:22:49","slug":"awe-inspiring-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Awe-Inspiring Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/scannerDarkWSL.jpg\" alt=\"scannerDarkWSL\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not read Philip K. Dick&#8217;s novel &#8220;A Scanner Darkly&#8221;, so I don&#8217;t know how it will translate to film, but the trailer does look intriguing. It&#8217;s the first clip I&#8217;ve seen from the film; up until now I&#8217;ve only seen screenshots. First thing that comes to my mind is Timothy Leary&#8217;s comment that virtual reality will be the ultimate drug (or something like that). Interesting how the film almost appears to be rendered with a cartoon shader. It almost fits inside Second Life (although machinima flicks look <em>much<\/em> better).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, go watch for yourself (<a href=\"http:\/\/pdl.warnerbros.com\/wip\/us\/med\/scanner_darkly\/scanner_darkly_a_tlr2_qt_700.mov\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>). If you&#8217;re reading this blog, you&#8217;re probably a Philip K. Dick fan anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not read Philip K. Dick&#8217;s novel &#8220;A Scanner Darkly&#8221;, so I don&#8217;t know how it will translate to film, but the trailer does look intriguing. It&#8217;s the first clip I&#8217;ve seen from the film; up until now I&#8217;ve only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}