{"id":500,"date":"2006-09-22T12:55:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/09\/22\/friday-night-videos-ink-blot\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T12:55:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T17:55:14","slug":"friday-night-videos-ink-blot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Videos: Ink Blot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (2006)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/86C4RNuAj6A\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/86C4RNuAj6A\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This video is one of the tightest I&#8217;ve seen in a long time. It&#8217;s visually striking, with an endless parade of Rorschach inkblots in which the faces of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse appear. It&#8217;s thematically apropriate, what with the use of inkblots as a psychological test and the song&#8217;s subject matter. It&#8217;s focused, creating a visual language and sticking with that, and yet it&#8217;s not static, the inkblots moving from abstract shapes to much more explicitly concrete images as the video progresses.<\/p>\n<p>Plus I always liked how good of a rebounder Barkley was.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pham Quynh Anh &#038; Marc Lavoine: J&#8217;esp\u00c3\u00a8re (2005)<\/b><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dO5hcsp_APE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dO5hcsp_APE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I am not crazy about the song, but I do enjoy the visuals. It&#8217;s as if the creator saw the Gnarls Barkley video and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s cool and all, but it needs more of <i>everything<\/i>.&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty sure the video for J&#8217;esp\u00c3\u00a8re predates the one for Crazy, but let me have my illusions.<\/p>\n<p>(A tip of the hat to <a href=\"storme.livejournal.com\">Storme<\/a> for pointing this video out to me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnarls Barkley: Crazy (2006) This video is one of the tightest I&#8217;ve seen in a long time. It&#8217;s visually striking, with an endless parade of Rorschach inkblots in which the faces of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse appear. It&#8217;s thematically apropriate, what with the use of inkblots as a psychological test and the song&#8217;s subject matter. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Night Videos: Ink Blot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}