{"id":5455,"date":"2009-08-26T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2009-08-26T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:43:16","slug":"do-not-distract-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/do-not-distract-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Distract the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Single-minded in pursuit of your ideals, are you? Think you&#8217;re putting a lot of time into your writing, your painting, your kids, your <em>life<\/em>? You call yourself dedicated?<\/p>\n<p><em>Ha!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or so I thought when I saw the video below. The maker claims to have spent 1500 hours on this not-quite-four-minute project, an estimate which I see no reason to doubt. But think about that 1500 hours&#8230; all those minutes and hours of mapping out every frame, shifting the (<em>many<\/em>) Lego bricks a little in one direction or another, shooting a frame or two per position&#8230; over&#8230; and over&#8230; (Let alone the time spent at the outset, encasing the human being in Legos.)<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this <a title=\"YouTube: rymdreglage's profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rymdreglage\" target=\"_blank\">rymdreglage<\/a> person may not have a steady job, or kids, or&#8230; or&#8230; or&#8230; Still: <em>sheesh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I think the video can probably be appreciated even by people who don&#8217;t know anything about the eight-bit console games (original Nintendo Entertainment System, etc.) to which this an homage. Some advice before playing it back, though: turn the volume down a bit, and bump it upwards only if you really want. The music stops just short of inducing seizures in small children and animals.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4qsWFFuYZYI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>[Hat tip to <\/em><a title=\"Lifting Fog: 'Legos on Acid'\" href=\"http:\/\/liftingfogblog.com\/2009\/08\/25\/legos-on-acid-or-what-have-you-done-thats-so-great\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lifting Fog<\/a><em> (slogan: &#8220;visibility is improving&#8221;), which I&#8217;d read even if I weren&#8217;t related to one of its co-authors.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-minded in pursuit of your ideals, are you? 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