{"id":1841,"date":"2008-10-31T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2008-11-17T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:38:31","slug":"rollin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Rollin’."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hooptie?\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A hundred years ago this month, Henry Ford’s company drove its first Model T automobile off of his Highland Park<\/strike>, Detroit, MI assembly line…and changed the world forever.<\/p>\n

Priced at $850, not only was it the first affordable, mass-produced car the world had ever seen, but the Model T\u2014that’s a 1912 one, above\u2014revolutionized manufacturing, caused an upheaval in labor, forced a reengineering of the American landscape, and reorganized our nation’s social order.<\/p>\n

So argues author Lindsay Brooke, in his new book, Ford Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels<\/em><\/a>. Lindsay is a guest today on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, October 31, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n

Then, tomorrow, the Machinima Filmfest 2008<\/a> animation gala is taking place at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology (540 W. 21st St., bet. 10th and 11th Ave), here in New York City. On NONFICTION, I’ll be talking with Friedrich Kirschner, festival director; Chris Burke, creator of This Spartan Life<\/em>; and Frank Dellario, director of animation, ILL Clan about the fest, and about machinima, the art of using video and\/or computer games to make movies.<\/p>\n

Machinima directors use the game’s controller to move, or animate, characters on-screen. They then digitally record that action with a capture card on a computer; dub voices and music; add effects; then edit the output.<\/p>\n

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\"How\u2019d<\/a><\/p>\n

The results can be wildly diverse<\/a>. For example, “A Few Good G-Men”<\/a> remakes the climactic courtroom confrontation between Lt. Daniel Kaffee and Col. Nathan R. Jessep (from Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men<\/em>) using the Half Life 2<\/em> game engine. Working in Unreal Tournament 2004<\/em>, on the other hand, Egils Mednis’s “The Ship”<\/a>, above, creates an impressionistic and eerie mindscape.<\/p>\n

You can hear these thoughtful individuals’ ideas by tuning in at 2 pm. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check out our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hundred years ago this month, Henry Ford’s company drove its first Model T automobile off of his Highland Park, Detroit, MI assembly line…and changed the world forever. Priced at $850, not only was it the first affordable, mass-produced car the world had ever seen, but the Model T\u2014that’s a 1912 one, above\u2014revolutionized manufacturing, caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,35,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}