{"id":1228,"date":"2009-04-08T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/08\/whats-in-the-box-brilliant-sci-fi-short\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:04:32","slug":"whats-in-the-box-brilliant-sci-fi-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/08\/whats-in-the-box-brilliant-sci-fi-short\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in the Box?: Brilliant Sci-Fi Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object style=\"float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IU_reTt7Hj4\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IU_reTt7Hj4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>This is a very mysterious short film by a YouTube user called <i>Timacious<\/i>.  It&#8217;s connected with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsinthebox.nl\/\">website<\/a> that appears to be some kind of puzzle.  I have no idea what&#8217;s going on here, but I loved watching the film.  The first-person point of view works so well that it may in fact be the best first-person film I&#8217;ve ever seen.  The chase is brilliantly staged and the locations are totally convincing.  It seems like something&#8217;s gone out of control at a lab and there&#8217;s some sort of time warp or black hole opening up above the city.  The character is being pursued by people with gas masks and hazmat suits.  He&#8217;s also got some bizarre magic box that appears to send energy out toward the disturbance in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Totally brilliant little film.  I want more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d785e09d-a6b6-84c1-b977-6dc18a7ebceb\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very mysterious short film by a YouTube user called Timacious. It&#8217;s connected with a website that appears to be some kind of puzzle. I have no idea what&#8217;s going on here, but I loved watching the film. The first-person point of view works so well that it may in fact be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,81],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-science-fiction","tag-action"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}