{"id":3097,"date":"2015-10-30T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:15:46","slug":"the-wisdom-of-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/the-wisdom-of-pessimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation: &#8220;The Wisdom of Pessimism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I buy the message, but I love the illustrations:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/143595622\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"The Wisdom of Pessimism\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2015\/10\/27\/making-the-wisdom-of-pessimism\/\">the Motionographer interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>For his directorial debut, Claudio Salas took on an ambitious challenge: a 2-minute visual essay for the philosopher Alain de Botton\u2019s School of Life project.<\/p>\n<p>What began as a simple Twitter exchange snowballed into a massive collaborative effort involving over 30 people. Their disparate styles and techniques combined for a whimsical \u201cvariety show\u201d aesthetic that\u2019s full of surprises while still feeling coherent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/143595622\">Vimeo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I buy the message, but I love the illustrations: \u2028 From the Motionographer interview: For his directorial debut, Claudio Salas took on an ambitious challenge: a 2-minute visual essay for the philosopher Alain de Botton\u2019s School of Life project. What began as a simple Twitter exchange snowballed into a massive collaborative effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097"}],"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=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}