{"id":630,"date":"2010-02-25T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=630"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:07:38","slug":"thrilling-tales-of-the-downright-unusual-progress-and-a-trailer-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/25\/thrilling-tales-of-the-downright-unusual-progress-and-a-trailer-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual: Progress, and a Trailer in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Thrilling_Trailer_Intro.jpg\" alt=\"Retropolis Films Intro\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top:12px;\">I&#8217;m in that last (ish) long haul here, and so I&#8217;m quiet; but I&#8217;ve got just four more illustrations to go for <em>Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves<\/em>. One or two are challenging ones, but heck&#8230; I&#8217;ll take what I can get in the not quite instant gratification area.<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;m actually going slower than I might because I&#8217;m splitting my time between these and an animated trailer for the <em>Thrilling Tales<\/em> web site. It&#8217;s weirdly relaxing to switch from working hard on one thing to working equally hard on something different. I can&#8217;t explain why that is, but like I said, I&#8217;ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Thrilling_Nat_Gwen.jpg\" alt=\"Nat and Gwen Approach the Tower of the Brain Thieves\" width=\"250\" height=\"253\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-right:-12px;\">It&#8217;s been quite awhile since I dusted off Premiere and put together a piece of video with it (and why do we still call it video?) My old version of Premiere won&#8217;t install on my main computer (16 bit installers: gotta love &#8217;em) and on my second one it looked at the memory available &#8211; which was way more than its programmers had believed possible, I guess &#8211; and ran screaming into the other room. So I had to <em>remove<\/em> memory to make it work. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But anyway, that&#8217;s working, I have some neat period music for the soundtrack from the public domain Prelinger archive, and that, like the story, is slowly coming together. Prrrrrrrrogress!<\/p><br \/><br \/>\n<p><em><strong>Update:<\/strong> the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site is now alive (alive, I tell you!) at <a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrilling-tales.webomator.com\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in that last (ish) long haul here, and so I&#8217;m quiet; but I&#8217;ve got just four more illustrations to go for Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves. One or two are challenging ones, but heck&#8230; I&#8217;ll take what I can get in the not quite instant gratification area. I&#8217;m actually going slower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}