{"id":942,"date":"2007-08-29T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/harry-potter-esque-moving-pictures\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T17:05:07","slug":"harry-potter-esque-moving-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/harry-potter-esque-moving-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter-esque moving pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a frigging boatload of technology behind this company, and it&#8217;s a fairly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motionportrait.com\/e\/about\/\">neat idea<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t help but think of the moving photographs described in the Harry Potter books when I see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motionportrait.com\/e\/about\/demo_faith_02.html\">in action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention that&#8217;s it&#8217;s kind of creepy (no, really creepy), I&#8217;m having a hard time imagining this taking off in any real way.\u00c2\u00a0 Watching that image track my mouse with those bloodshot eyeballs and then smile is a bit too much.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, I saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/64187\/MotionPortrait\">Metafilter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a frigging boatload of technology behind this company, and it&#8217;s a fairly neat idea, but I can&#8217;t help but think of the moving photographs described in the Harry Potter books when I see this in action. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/harry-potter-esque-moving-pictures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}