{"id":62,"date":"2008-04-10T00:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-11-02T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:28:42","slug":"combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Combat update &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the lyrics for &#8220;Combat&#8221; today.  It&#8217;s <em>almost<\/em> done!  This is (99%) likely to be the first song on &#8220;Bits&#8221;.  It is inspired by the Atari 2600 game that shipped with every Atari in the early 80&#8217;s.  It was the quintessential two player game.  The game had two modes:  <\/p>\n<p>Tanks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_04_10_a.png\" title=\"these tanks go reeeeeaaally sloooow\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Planes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_04_10_b.png\" title=\"quick ... hide behind that cloud!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am working on a video for this song that involves making miniature military models and macro shooting.  Tomorrow, I&#8217;m going to the hobby store to check out some HO scale model railroad track and see about building a micro dolly.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, I built a scale model set in Jason McGerr and Dave&#8217;s house.  I covered a huge table with sand and draped the horizon with blue cloth.  I was making a video for the song &#8220;Escalations&#8221; that involved WWII military vehicles and pyramids.  I have about 2 rolls of test footage that I&#8217;ll upload sometime.  If I can find the original models I used, I might reuse them for this shoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the lyrics for &#8220;Combat&#8221; today. It&#8217;s almost done! This is (99%) likely to be the first song on &#8220;Bits&#8221;. It is inspired by the Atari 2600 game that shipped with every Atari in the early 80&#8217;s. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/combat\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Combat update &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[85,174,84,93,27],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-solo-record","category-music","tag-atari-2600","tag-bitssolo-record","tag-combat","tag-escalations","tag-eureka-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}