{"id":3267,"date":"2012-11-30T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:04:52","slug":"art-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/art-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"art of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday! I have people coming over to record stuff. Enjoy three pieces of art by other people; one written, two video.<\/p>\n<p>This first item isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;re going to think it is. I&#8217;m going to tell you what it is, and you&#8217;re going to go, &#8216;what? unlikely&#8217; and not even read it, even though you should.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part crackfic, it&#8217;s part hard-SF singularity story, it&#8217;s kind of creepy, it&#8217;s kind of epic, and it&#8217;s also quite funny at parts, particularly if the term &#8220;paperclip AI&#8221; means anything to you. It&#8217;s one of the most amazing fanfic efforts I&#8217;ve read, and <em>I&#8217;m not even in the fandom<\/em>. Please enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><i>My Little Pony:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fimfiction.net\/story\/62074\/1\">Friendship is Optimal<\/a><small><br \/><i>Caution: self-modifying code.<\/i><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s a little too out there for you, please instead (or in addition) please enjoy two mashups.<\/p>\n<p>From an art standpoint, I&#8217;m just really impressed by how well this actually just works as music. It&#8217;s the kind of mashup that kind of makes sense from the start &#8211; it may be R&#038;B separated by time and great distance, but it&#8217;s still a collision of two R&#038;B-oriented artists. Please enjoy FAROFF&#8217;s PSY vs. Ray Parker, Jr., in <i>Gangnambusters:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82LCKBdjywQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This last one&#8217;s pretty silly, two rather opposite 1980s pop acts slammed against each other. If you know anything about Billy Idol&#8217;s punk era and George Michael&#8217;s solo pop career, seeing the high-makeup punk crowd headbanging to George Michel&#8217;s high-accellerated crooning is both hysterical and somehow appropriate. It&#8217;s not bad musically, either; it sounds too fast at first, but there are reasons &#8211; they had to speed up <em>both<\/em> tracks just to get enough energy into Michel&#8217;s singing.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy Wax Audio&#8217;s Bill Idol vs. George Michael, <i>Careless Rebel:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfydAir-iOI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re finally going to see <i>Wreck-it Ralph<\/i> (a.k.a. <i>Sugar Rush<\/i>) this weekend. What&#8217;re your plans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday! I have people coming over to record stuff. Enjoy three pieces of art by other people; one written, two video. This first item isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;re going to think it is. I&#8217;m going to tell you what it is, and you&#8217;re going to go, &#8216;what? unlikely&#8217; and not even read it, even though [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}