{"id":4119,"date":"2013-04-18T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2013-04-18T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:59:46","slug":"something-about-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"Something about Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is an impressive clip from a new music video that shows the drastic affect lighting has on a person&#8217;s face. It&#8217;s dizzying! The same face completely changes form just by the light swinging around. I wish it was in slow-mo to see the effect up close.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hang-2-column\" style=\"width:620px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sparkles and Wine - Teaser\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63602119?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got excited about the video because it reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050280\">something I read<\/a> about the best Japanese Noh masks. On the wall they appear expressionless but on a performer and in motion the the mask comes alive. Light catches a hidden plain or a dark edge and the mask smirks, twitches, or frowns. Feel where those angles are, and you start to understand what that mask is capable of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Noh-masks-different-orientations-random.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4120 alignright\" title=\"Noh masks different orientations random\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Noh-masks-different-orientations-random-440x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Noh-masks-different-orientations-random-440x405.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Noh-masks-different-orientations-random.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an impressive clip from a new music video that shows the drastic affect lighting has on a person&#8217;s face. It&#8217;s dizzying! The same face completely changes form just by the light swinging around. I wish it was in slow-mo to see the effect up close. I got excited about the video because it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,94,15],"tags":[404,165,411],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-theatre-artists","category-video","tag-mask","tag-music-video","tag-noh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}