{"id":866,"date":"2007-11-06T23:04:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T23:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=866"},"modified":"2007-11-06T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T23:04:39","slug":"the-conet-project-comes-to-channel-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"The Conet Project comes to Channel Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short film, which uses The Conet Project as its soundtrack, mixed with the voices of bloggers, comes to Channel 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomson-craighead.net\/imgs\/flat_earth7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomson-craighead.net\/imgs\/flat_earth3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples&#8217; blogs. These fragments are knitted together to form a kind of story or singular narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomson-craighead.net\/imgs\/flat_earth5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thomson-craighead.net\/imgs\/flat_earth6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The visual effect is not unlike that of Google Earth, although significantly here, nearly all of the visual material for, &#8220;Flat Earth&#8221; is taken from satellite imagery freely available on the web. This is with the exception of the close-up imagery from outside USA, which had to be paid for non-commercial use and a series of images taken from Flickr under Creative Commons attribution license.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flat Earth&#8221; is an Animate Projects commission with Arts Council England and Channel Four Television. Animatics work is by Cavan Convery and we worked on the script with Steve Rushton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a preview DVD of the film, and it is a rather beautiful piece of work. Exceptional and insightful I would say.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomson-craighead.net\/\" title=\"FLAT_EARTH\">the website for the makers<\/a> THOMSON &#038; CRAIGHEAD.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animateprojects.org\/\" title=\"Animate Projects: Exploring the relationship between the visual arts and animation\">commissioners<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short film, which uses The Conet Project as its soundtrack, mixed with the voices of bloggers, comes to Channel 4: Flat Earth is a desktop documentary, which takes the viewer on a seven minute trip around the world so that we encounter a series of fragments taken from real peoples&#8217; blogs. These fragments are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}