{"id":8881,"date":"2015-03-25T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2015-03-24T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:50:47","slug":"risk-and-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8881","title":{"rendered":"Risk and Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we all should know there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_March_20,_2015\" target=\"_blank\">total Solar eclipse<\/a> on March 20th, 2015. Apparently the best place to see it was from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faroe_Islands\" target=\"_blank\">Faroe Islands<\/a>. Apparently a local band took a chance and decided to film a <strong>live<\/strong> music video (see below).<\/p>\n<p>It is this kind of thing I so admire as I am usually too pessimistic and risk averse to attempt anything of the sort. Yup, I am that guy. The number of things that could have gone wrong boggles. The weather could have been bad: rain, high winds, cloud, a freak tsunami! And there could have been people on their shooting location, the eclipse could have occurred at a bad camera angle, their camera could have broken, the filters could have been wrong, the timing could be messed up&#8230;I could go on for hours. It seems like a recipe for total disaster.\u00a0&lt;shudder&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder how I ever got into such a risk-filled profession like print design and production: \u00a0ink absorption, colour shifts, postscript errors, registration issues&#8230; aargh!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/feR12pQ8dXc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the total solar eclipse on March 20th, 2015, the Faroese doom metal band Hamfer\u00f0 took the opportunity to shoot a creative live music video for their song \u201cDey\u00f0ir Var\u00f0ar\u201d from a mountain in the Faroe Islands. It\u2019s a 6 minute 36 second video in which the world goes completely dark and the total eclipse can be clearly seen in the background.<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/03\/22\/a-music-video-shot-live-during-a-total-solar-eclipse\/\">petapixel.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all should know there was a total Solar eclipse on March 20th, 2015. Apparently the best place to see it was from the Faroe Islands. Apparently a local band took a chance and decided to film a live music video (see below). It is this kind of thing I so admire as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}