{"id":110,"date":"2008-02-15T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2008\/02\/15\/laser-harp-by-photographer-stephen-hobley\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:39:42","slug":"laser-harp-by-photographer-stephen-hobley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/15\/laser-harp-by-photographer-stephen-hobley\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Laser Harp&#8221; by Photographer Stephen Hobley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\">\n<object height=\"355\" width=\"425\">\n<param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sLVXmsbVwUs&amp;rel=1\"><\/param>\n<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sLVXmsbVwUs&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Now if we were to quibble, we might call this a <em>Laser Lyre<\/em> rather than a <em>Laser Harp<\/em>: it&#8217;s got a limited range, and the arrangement of the &#8220;strings&#8221; is more lyre-like than harp-like. But we don&#8217;t <em>get<\/em> to quibble because we aren&#8217;t clever enough to build one ourselves, are we?\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenhobley.com\/blog\/archives\/93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/hobley.jpg\" alt=\"union station, indianapolis, by Stephen Hobley\" border=\"0\" height=\"268\" width=\"180\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;margin-left:0px;\"\/><\/a>This is the brainchild of Stephen Hobley, a photographer from Indianapolis. The &#8220;Laser Harp&#8221; is one of his side projects &#8211; another was the conversion of a player piano into a computer case.\n<\/p><p>\nHobley has posted a brief tour of the Laser Harp&#8217;s workings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/shobley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, with more information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenhobley.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his blog<\/a>. And while you&#8217;re there, don&#8217;t miss his photographs of Indianapolis&#8217; decaying <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenhobley.com\/blog\/archives\/93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Union Station<\/a> &#8211; <em>really<\/em> nice stuff there!\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now if we were to quibble, we might call this a Laser Lyre rather than a Laser Harp: it&#8217;s got a limited range, and the arrangement of the &#8220;strings&#8221; is more lyre-like than harp-like. But we don&#8217;t get to quibble because we aren&#8217;t clever enough to build one ourselves, are we? This is the brainchild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}