{"id":272,"date":"2012-01-09T09:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-01-09T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:53:42","slug":"watch-observer-my-previous-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Watch Observer, my previous short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"600\" height=\"338\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 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:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13828095&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"338\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13828095&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13828095\"><em>Observer<\/em><\/a>, the short film I <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/we-are-cinema.html\">shot in the summer of 2010<\/a>, now unlocked for your viewing pleasure. It stayed under password-protected wraps for a while there due to the rules of the various film festivals I submitted it to. Now that I&#8217;ve fallen into absolute confusion about the very purpose of the short-film festival circuit, I figured I might as well make the thing available to everyone. Seems like a more efficient way to attract informative feedback and interesting collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>For months now, I&#8217;ve been working on my next short, a Borges-inspired story called\u00a0\u05d0 about, yes, a point that contains all points. It&#8217;s taking so long because I&#8217;m shooting it all on Super 8 \u2014 don&#8217;t ask me why, but I like the look, and the limitations of the format make me work in a psychologically different way \u2014 and mostly in Santa Barbara, so each shooting day means a mini-road trip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Observer 1\" src=\"http:\/\/i764.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx287\/colinjmarshall\/observer14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Observer 2\" src=\"http:\/\/i764.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx287\/colinjmarshall\/observer9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Observer 3\" src=\"http:\/\/i764.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx287\/colinjmarshall\/observer12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I give you Observer, the short film I shot in the summer of 2010, now unlocked for your viewing pleasure. It stayed under password-protected wraps for a while there due to the rules of the various film festivals I submitted it to. Now that I&#8217;ve fallen into absolute confusion about the very purpose of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-santa-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}