{"id":32012,"date":"2009-10-30T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/30\/interlude-2-aeon-flux-tide"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:02","slug":"interlude-2-aeon-flux-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/interlude-2-aeon-flux-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlude 2: Aeon Flux &#8220;Tide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2009\/10\/tide.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2009\/10\/tide-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Before MTV commissioned the full-length <i>Aeon Flux<\/i> series (in which the characters speak out loud) there were six dialogue-free &#8220;Aeon Flux&#8221; short films which appeared on MTV&#8217;s excellent <i>Liquid Television<\/i> animation anthology show in 1991-2. Peter Chung, the visionary creator\/director\/writer\/designer of &#8220;Aeon Flux,&#8221; provided commentary on the recent compilation DVD box set, compiling all the MTV <i>Aeon Flux<\/i> material.<\/p>\n<p>The short called &#8220;Tide&#8221; has a unique structure. According to Chung&#8217;s commentary, he was inspired by formal arrangements in music when he conceived it. The entire story is constructed from a sequence of twenty shots, each two seconds in length, which repeats six times. (There&#8217;s an additional shot on the end, longer than the rest, that repeats the first shot.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original short: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/tide_original\">http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/tide_original<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a mosaic presentation I made, showing exactly what he means: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/tide\">http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/tide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He cheats once.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-772646160351851290?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before MTV commissioned the full-length Aeon Flux series (in which the characters speak out loud) there were six dialogue-free &#8220;Aeon Flux&#8221; short films which appeared on MTV&#8217;s excellent Liquid Television animation anthology show in 1991-2. Peter Chung, the visionary creator\/director\/writer\/designer of &#8220;Aeon Flux,&#8221; provided commentary on the recent compilation DVD box set, compiling all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41247,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32012\/revisions\/41247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}