{"id":4255,"date":"2011-06-19T04:23:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T19:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2011-06-19T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T02:50:28","slug":"no-getting-the-eiffel-tower-into-your-frame-does-not-make-you-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/06\/19\/no-getting-the-eiffel-tower-into-your-frame-does-not-make-you-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Framing the Eiffel Tower does not make you an artist."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a way to convey to a Japanese audience why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Am\u00e9lie\"><i>Am\u00e9lie<\/i><\/a> was adequate but ultimately forgettable in its schlocky quirkiness and <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/07\/the-problem-with-contemporary-french-movies\/\"><i>Paris<\/i><\/a> (&#8220;the movie&#8221;): a derivative piece of tourism porn by an aging director, who used to do <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_P\u00e9ril_jeune\">much better<\/a>&#8230; that does not make one sound like a bitter jaded fuck or a strident Parisian film snob.<\/p>\n<p>I just haven&#8217;t found it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be a way to convey to a Japanese audience why Am\u00e9lie was adequate but ultimately forgettable in its schlocky quirkiness and Paris (&#8220;the movie&#8221;): a derivative piece of tourism porn by an aging director, who used to do much better&#8230; that does not make one sound like a bitter jaded fuck or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insignificant-details","category-movies","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}