{"id":33,"date":"2007-07-25T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/07\/25\/stilt-walkers-by-alexis-van-der-haeghe\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T17:26:18","slug":"stilt-walkers-by-alexis-van-der-haeghe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/25\/stilt-walkers-by-alexis-van-der-haeghe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stilt Walkers&#8221; by Alexis van der Haeghe"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdhalexis.com\/stiltwalkers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/stiltwalkers_A.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"243\" width=\"501\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"margin-top:12px;\">\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdhalexis.com\/stiltwalkers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Stilt Walkers<\/em><\/a>&#8221; is a beautiful, four minute student film by Alexis van der Haeghe of Belgium. It reminds me of those old days when I&#8217;d zoom across California in my art nouveau airship, investigating the clouds and having adventures. Except that I <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> do that, of course. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdhalexis.com\/stiltwalkers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/stiltwalkers_B.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"270\" width=\"135\" style=\"float:left;margin:12px;margin-left:0px;\"\/><\/a>But watching this boy have his own adventures sure makes me wish I had, and I almost feel like I did.\n<\/p><p>\nClad in an aviator&#8217;s helmet and plus-fours, the boy is clearly having the time of his life until he encounters a pair of comedia-del-arte style giants on towering stilts. Complications ensue, all in fine style. Highly recommended.\n<\/p><p>\nThe artist has since done some work on a movie trailer and a CD, but seems to be working away,  at the moment, on a children&#8217;s book.  A personal project &#8211; glad to see that. I&#8217;m always interested in what we can do when we&#8217;re not bound by what someone else thinks they can profit from.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stilt Walkers&#8221; is a beautiful, four minute computer animated film by Alexis van der Haeghe of Belgium, showing us the adventures of a boy in an aviator&#8217;s helmet and plus fours who flies about the world in his art nouveau airship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}