{"id":5189,"date":"2010-08-18T20:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2010-08-20T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T16:38:47","slug":"animation-call-of-the-cthulhu-in-under-2-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/08\/18\/animation-call-of-the-cthulhu-in-under-2-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation: Call of the Cthulhu In Under 2 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14119548&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14119548&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>In general, I am deeply suspicious of the web trend for geeks to head toward steampunk, octopuses, and all things Cthulhu. \u00a0 There&#8217;s a vague and creeping racism underneath the cute old-fashioned, brass-fitted surface.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also held a certain amount of contempt for H.P. Lovecraft.  I think the guy was a closeted white supremacist with a knack for telling horrifying tales that are about white supremacists.\u00a0 I can imagine him as Sarah Palin&#8217;s favorite author&#8230; if she reads.\u00a0  The Cthulhu stories are genuinely frightening and his writing does contain a high creep quotient.  But I&#8217;m just about ready to launch DOS attacks on sites that dig every alien octopus that shows its tentacles.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is Lovecraft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Call_of_Cthulhu\"><em>Call of the Cthulhu<\/em><\/a> in under 2 minutes.  It&#8217;s very well done and I like the use of the newspapers to move the story.  <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2635457\">Declan Moran<\/a> made it.  He also made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2010\/08\/03\/animation-dantes-inferno-in-under-2-minutes\/\">Dante&#8217;s Inferno in Under 2 Minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, I am deeply suspicious of the web trend for geeks to head toward steampunk, octopuses, and all things Cthulhu. \u00a0 There&#8217;s a vague and creeping racism underneath the cute old-fashioned, brass-fitted surface.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also held a certain amount of contempt for H.P. Lovecraft. I think the guy was a closeted white supremacist with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[1271,2477,1270,2484],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-horror","tag-cthulhu","tag-horror","tag-lovecraft","tag-science-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}