{"id":2674,"date":"2012-09-23T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2012-09-23T13:56:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T17:56:27","slug":"christmas-bytes-seeks-funds-for-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/09\/christmas-bytes-seeks-funds-for-filming\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Christmas Bytes<\/i> Seeks Funds for Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As filmmaker Brett Neveu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1678105444\/christmas-bytes\">explains in his video about <i>Christmas Bytes,<\/i><\/a> he&#8217;s aiming to make the resonant Christmas movie for our (or at least my) generation, when the coveted item was not an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle, but rather the Atari Video Computer System.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Bogost and I donated a signed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickm.com\/vcs\/\"><i>Racing the Beam<\/i><\/a> to the campaign, and there are a raft of other 80s-related enticements. For instance, I tend the judge the wisdom of my actions by whether anonymous San Francisco band The Residents are doing the same, and in this case, I am pleased to say that they also have contributed CDs &#8212; and are lined up to do the original soundtrack for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/vote-for-project-of-the-week-will-it-be-bytes-asian-bad-guys-creek-or-wave-maker\">vote for <i>Christmas Bytes<\/i> as the movie of the week<\/a> on <i>Indiewire.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As filmmaker Brett Neveu explains in his video about Christmas Bytes, he&#8217;s aiming to make the resonant Christmas movie for our (or at least my) generation, when the coveted item was not an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle, but rather the Atari Video Computer System. Ian Bogost and I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/09\/christmas-bytes-seeks-funds-for-filming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Christmas Bytes<\/i> Seeks Funds for Filming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,19],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atari","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}