{"id":12451,"date":"2007-08-16T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/adobe-does-pynchon-one-letter-at-a-time.html"},"modified":"2007-08-16T12:52:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T12:52:53","slug":"adobe_does_pynchon_one_letter_at_a_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/16\/adobe_does_pynchon_one_letter_at_a_time\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe does Pynchon, one letter at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, Adobe &amp; digital artist <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/08\/adobe_flashes_sj.html\">unveiled the San Jose Semaphore<\/a>&#8211;24,000 LEDs that form &quot;a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_6620943\">code has been cracked<\/a> and is revealed to be spelling out an entire novel, Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crying_of_Lot_49\"><em>The Crying of Lot 49<\/em><\/a>.&#160; &quot;The Pynchon book, written in the mid-1960s, is set in a fictional California city filled with high-tech campuses. It follows a woman&#8217;s discovery of latent symbols and codes embedded in the landscape and local culture, [Semaphore creator Ben] Rubin said.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Evidently the code does not, as second-generation Photoshop team member David Parent suggested, consist of &quot;Be&#8230; sure&#8230; to&#8230; drink&#8230; your&#8230; Ovaltine. Son of a <em>bitch!&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago, Adobe &amp; digital artist unveiled the San Jose Semaphore&#8211;24,000 LEDs that form &quot;a multi-sensory kinetic artwork that illuminates the San Jose skyline with the transmission of a coded message.&quot; Now the code has been cracked and is revealed to be spelling out an entire novel, Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s The Crying of Lot 49.&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}