{"id":4121,"date":"2009-12-18T21:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-18T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:41:07","slug":"loved-avatars-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/loved-avatars-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved Avatar&#8217;s World-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI just saw Cameron&#8217;s movie <em>Avata<\/em>r. I went for the spectacle, the total immersion. As a way to visit another planet it was fantastic. Don&#8217;t be distracted by the lame plot (a galatic <em>Dancing With Wolves)<\/em>. The joy is all about the experience. You get an insanely complete world &#8212; language, culture, biology, machines, geology, and so on. Every plant is invented. I thought it was going to be computer-y but the tenor and atmosphere was refreshingly biological. Sure the movie&#8217;s &#8220;message&#8221; was environmentally preachy, and the but the experience in 3D was pretty cool. My 13-year old son gave it 5 stars. It is not hard to imagine most movies being fabricated with the same make-a-world technology. It also has &#8220;video games&#8221; written all over it. Takes the world-making of <em>Star Wars<\/em> and <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> to the next level. I was dazzled by the fantasy and its completeness. Definitely a cultural landmark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/Comic-Con-09-Live-Blog-20th-Century-Fox-And-James-Cameron-Present-Avatar.jpg\" height=\"254\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Comic-Con-09-Live-Blog-20Th-Century-Fox-And-James-Cameron-Present-Avatar\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw Cameron&#8217;s movie Avatar. I went for the spectacle, the total immersion. As a way to visit another planet it was fantastic. Don&#8217;t be distracted by the lame plot (a galatic Dancing With Wolves). The joy is all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/loved-avatars-w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}