{"id":9047,"date":"2016-04-14T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T19:25:58","slug":"station-ii-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/14\/station-ii-station\/","title":{"rendered":"station II station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-04\/station-II-station.jpg\"><br \/><i>Station II Station<\/i><small><br \/>(photo Christian C.)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I got to go to visit Microsoft&#8217;s anechoic chambers. This was <Em>super cool<\/em>, particularly since I got to visit the world record holder, which was <Em>neat<\/em>. A lot of people find them eerie and\/or creepy; I just thought it was awesome. I have a big post queued up next week, with lots of pictures.<\/p>\n<p>But I also wanted &#8211; since I had a unique opportunity here &#8211; to snap a thematic variant of David Bowie&#8217;s icon <i>Station to Station<\/i> album cover, from his Thin White Duke era, wherein <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2016-04\/station-to-station.jpg\">he is also walking into an anechoic chamber<\/a>. Mission accomplished!<\/p>\n<p>(I wanted originally to do a straight-up re-creation, but the setting was too different. Science of sound damping has progressed since 1978! \ud83d\ude00 And inversion and variation is better art anyway!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really pleased with it. Thanks for the help, Christian &#8211; and, for that matter, the tour, Sean! And I&#8217;ll post about the whole experience next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station II Station(photo Christian C.) A few weeks ago, I got to go to visit Microsoft&#8217;s anechoic chambers. This was super cool, particularly since I got to visit the world record holder, which was neat. A lot of people find them eerie and\/or creepy; I just thought it was awesome. I have a big post [&#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":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-notes","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047","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=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9054,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions\/9054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}