{"id":5851,"date":"2014-05-13T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2014-05-13T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T16:28:21","slug":"best-anniversary-present-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/13\/best-anniversary-present-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Anniversary Present&#8230; EVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this ad is pretty fun, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/93653271\" width=\"725\" height=\"408\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Big Red Bow\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/branitfx.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Branit,<\/a> a visual-effects artist whose credits include the TV series <em>Lost,<\/em> <em>Breaking Bad, Revolution, <\/em>and<em> Fringe<\/em>. He was also one of the cats behind that incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8822404?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=d976de&amp;autoplay=1\">short film<\/a> <em>405<\/em> that went viral a few years back. And get this: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sploid.gizmodo.com\/the-millennium-falcon-the-best-gift-a-geek-can-have-1575578699\">Gizmodo<\/a>, this ad was done as a spec for his portfolio. On his own time, essentially for the hell of it, in other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We live in astounding times, when you think about it. We&#8217;re able to realize our fantasies (visually anyhow) to a level of realism we could only dream of only a couple decades ago&#8230; and it&#8217;s so economical that people are doing it <em>on spec<\/em> and <em>just for fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this ad is pretty fun, too&#8230; Written and directed by Bruce Branit, a visual-effects artist whose credits include the TV series Lost, Breaking Bad, Revolution, and Fringe. He was also one of the cats behind that incredible short film 405 that went viral a few years back. And get this: According to Gizmodo, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","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=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}