{"id":259,"date":"2016-01-15T00:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T04:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-01-16T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:13:27","slug":"is-this-still-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2016\/01\/is-this-still-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Still Your Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a song called Is This Your Brain? I just finished this 20th anniversary version. I don&#8217;t want to say it&#8217;s the definitive version, because that would mean committing. But I like it that much.  For this version I went back to the original source TV show, because the soundbites I had originally used were a little bit Fawlty. (nyuk nyuk) <\/p>\n<p>Scroll down further for the 2004 and the 1996 versions (audio only).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPUYyx89y84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(YouTube link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vPUYyx89y84\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/vPUYyx89y84<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>The background video is from a film called &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; produced by J Searle Dawley for the Edison Manufacturing Co. in 1910! The video cameras only had about twelve pixels in those days. Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Frankenstein_628\" target=\"_blank\">archive.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But wait, that&#8217;s not all!  Next up is the 2004 version, which is utterly different. It uses those same English-accented soundbites, but is otherwise its own beast. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/242036970&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, and originally, here&#8217;s the 1996 version, which provided most of the performance data for the current version, and still holds up well, I think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/242036742&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SoundCloud link: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rgdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\">soundcloud.com\/rgdaniel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Brain Stem  (inverted up-rez)_2406029029_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Brain-Stem-inverted-up-rez_2406029029_o.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a song called Is This Your Brain? I just finished this 20th anniversary version. I don&#8217;t want to say it&#8217;s the definitive version, because that would mean committing. But I like it that much. For this version I went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2016\/01\/is-this-still-your-brain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}