{"id":23373,"date":"2025-12-01T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23373"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:51:05","slug":"a-charming-bts-for-apples-friends-holiday-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/a-charming-bts-for-apples-friends-holiday-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"A charming BTS for Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Friends&#8221; holiday spot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s almost no limit to my insane love of practical animal puppetry (usually the sillier, the better\u2014e.g.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triumph_the_Insult_Comic_Dog\">Triumph<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/snl.wikia.com\/wiki\/The_Falconer\">The Falconer<\/a>),\u00a0so I naturally loved this peek behind the scenes of Apple&#8217;s new spot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Puppeteers dressed like blueberries. Individually placed whiskers. An entire forest built 3 feet off the ground. And so much more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apple Holiday | The Making of The Apple Holiday Film | Shot on iPhone 17 Pro\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANqqg8BoNoU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus: Check out this look into the making of a similarly great Portland tourism commercial:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portland artists celebrate hometown in nifty stop-motion spot - KING 5 Evening\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D3T7Tkr4Ixs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s almost no limit to my insane love of practical animal puppetry (usually the sillier, the better\u2014e.g.\u00a0Triumph,\u00a0The Falconer),\u00a0so I naturally loved this peek behind the scenes of Apple&#8217;s new spot: Puppeteers dressed like blueberries. Individually placed whiskers. An entire forest built 3 feet off the ground. And so much more. Bonus: Check out this look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373"}],"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=23373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23378,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions\/23378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}