{"id":1526,"date":"2008-09-03T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2008-09-03T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T12:24:33","slug":"the_dreaded_floating_head_movi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/03\/the_dreaded_floating_head_movi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind the Dreaded &#8220;Floating Head&#8221; Movie Posters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with so many other things that were much, much cooler twenty or thirty years ago, movie posters these days are pretty uninspired. It used to be that even the lowest-budget drive-in fodder was advertised with beautiful, colorful painted-art collages. That was before Photoshop and rock-bottom-line thinking took hold in the industry, though. These days, the dominant aesthetic &#8212; if you could call it that &#8212; is all about headshots of the cast. Here&#8217;s a video introduction to the master of that particular craft:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"464\" height=\"388\" 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=\"flashvars\" value=\"key=47d8df4123\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www2.funnyordie.com\/public\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed width=\"464\" height=\"388\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.funnyordie.com\/public\/flash\/fodplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"key=47d8df4123\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" quality=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 464px; text-align: left;\">See more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/\">funny videos<\/a> at Funny or Die<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, another classic collectible is born. I think I&#8217;ll stick with the vintage stuff, thanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/posterwire.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/02\/movie-poster-floating-heads\/\">Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with so many other things that were much, much cooler twenty or thirty years ago, movie posters these days are pretty uninspired. It used to be that even the lowest-budget drive-in fodder was advertised with beautiful, colorful painted-art collages. That was before Photoshop and rock-bottom-line thinking took hold in the industry, though. These days, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}