{"id":773,"date":"2008-07-14T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T11:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2008-07-14T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T12:26:03","slug":"gorbachev-bigger-and-russianer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Gorbachev: Bigger and Russianer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videographer Tom Stern was tasked with creating a music video for a Mikhail Gorbachev tribute by Russian metal band ANJ.  He decided that discretion was in no way the better part of valor and created a video that brings tears to your eyes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and I think it was just the thing. Suffice to say it&#8217;s half Russian History allegory as told through an old zombie movie made in the Soviet Union, and half animated Soviet Propaganda posters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1223566&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1223566&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1223566?pg=embed&#038;sec=1223566\">GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO &#8211; BIGGER AND RUSSIANER<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user557992?pg=embed&#038;sec=1223566\">Tom Stern<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&#038;sec=1223566\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How do you improve on perfection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videographer Tom Stern was tasked with creating a music video for a Mikhail Gorbachev tribute by Russian metal band ANJ. He decided that discretion was in no way the better part of valor and created a video that brings tears to your eyes. I had a brainstorm to take it way over the top and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}