{"id":573884127,"date":"2012-11-09T16:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884127"},"modified":"2012-11-11T16:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:53:17","slug":"a-brief-collection-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/a-brief-collection-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief collection of things"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen some version of this commercial, perhaps:<\/p>\n

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That Lebron James spot uses “Keep On Pushing” a 1964 hit from Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions. Wonderful stuff.<\/p>\n

But that’s like a 1964 spot where NBA megastar Bill Russell moves around town as the 1916 Al Jolson hit “You’re a Dangerous Girl” plays:<\/p>\n

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Hard to imagine in the 1960s, eh?<\/p>\n

Have you seen this Washington Post analysis<\/a> of how the election was won? Excellent work they produced this week.<\/p>\n

Have you seen the post-Sandy cover of New York Magazine? It is an incredible helicopter-at-night shot. Poynter has a great description<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Baan made the image Wednesday night after the storm, using the new Canon 1D X with the new 24-70mm lens on full open aperture. The camera was set at 25,000 ISO, with a 1\/40th of a second shutter speed.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It was] the kind of shot which was impossible to take before this camera was there,\u201d Baan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unreal.<\/p>\n

Battlestar Blood and Chrome, now airing as webisodes<\/a>. Better than a Friday night slot.<\/p>\n

My shoulders and neck are a mess. I’m going to go sit very still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen some version of this commercial, perhaps: That Lebron James spot uses “Keep On Pushing” a 1964 hit from Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions. Wonderful stuff. But that’s like a 1964 spot where NBA megastar Bill Russell moves around town as the 1916 Al Jolson hit “You’re a Dangerous Girl” plays: Hard to imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,25,39,31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-journalism","category-links","category-music","category-twitter","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884128,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884127\/revisions\/573884128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}