{"id":169,"date":"2008-06-08T21:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T01:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-06-08T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T01:56:27","slug":"koyaanisqatsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/koyaanisqatsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Koyaanisqatsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1982 to Google Video, here is the entire 85-minute feature film <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koyaanisqatsi\">Koyaanisqatsi<\/a>.<br \/>\n<embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" style=\"width:400px;height:326px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"fs=true\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=5539613947839465921&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><br \/>\n<em>From Wikipedia:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Koyaanisqatsi,<\/strong> also known as <strong>Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance<\/strong>, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.<br \/>\nThe film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means &#8216;crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living&#8217;, and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.<br \/>\nThe film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by <strong>Powaqqatsi <\/strong>(1988) and <strong>Naqoyqatsi <\/strong>(2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.[1] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1982 to Google Video, here is the entire 85-minute feature film Koyaanisqatsi. From Wikipedia: Koyaanisqatsi, also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by minimalist composer Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}