{"id":265,"date":"2010-03-08T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:14:10","slug":"follow_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/03\/follow_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/02\/to-catch-a-thief.html\">the jewelry heist<\/a>, Vijay put out a new music <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vijayiyer\/status\/9683669279\">remixing\/response challenge<\/a> and I was inspired. So this weekend I thought hard and gathered some video and sound materials and&#8230;failed completely to rise to the occasion. Despite what the naysayers suggest, in my limited experience this kind of work requires amazing skill and creativity, and I&#8217;m just not there yet. (Though the exercise wasn&#8217;t a complete wash. I now have a file folder filled with <i>CSI Miami<\/i> quotes, <i>Law and Order<\/i> sound effects, and the theme song from <i>COPS<\/i>, which I hope will come in handy one day.)<\/p>\n<p>While I was procrastinating, however, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pantlessknights.com\/\">Pantless Knights<\/a> posted this brilliant spoof\/tribute to the &#8220;new dorks&#8221; spun off from the Jay-Z and Alicia Keys track &#8220;Empire State of Mind,&#8221; and I am once again inspired. It&#8217;s addictive; you have been warned.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/exmwSxv7XJI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/exmwSxv7XJI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"295\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\n[via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/03\/08\/social-media-dorks\/\">Mashable<\/a>]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the jewelry heist, Vijay put out a new music remixing\/response challenge and I was inspired. So this weekend I thought hard and gathered some video and sound materials and&#8230;failed completely to rise to the occasion. Despite what the naysayers suggest, in my limited experience this kind of work requires amazing skill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}