{"id":41,"date":"2007-03-01T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T04:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T21:49:48","slug":"monster-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/monster-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the good fortune of seeing the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterroad.com\/\">Monster Road<\/a>, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing it again. It&#8217;s a documentary about genius stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford (who is best known for animating some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KoXtr5-TG7o\">Frank<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J6UgzNJfpfA\">Zappa<\/a> videos) and his aging father. Bickford is an amazing, prolific and obscure artist, and the extensive excerpts from his work in the movie are mind-blowing. Besides all that, this is among the best crafted documentaries I&#8217;ve seen in my life (and I&#8217;ve watched a lot of documentaries)&#8230; it is profound, moving and inspiring. I hope it gets all the attention it deserves. The DVD is available for purchase on the <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterroad.com\/\">Monster Road website<\/a>, and is well worth the money. Here&#8217;s the trailer.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Vzo04V24vWw\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the good fortune of seeing the movie Monster Road, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing it again. It&#8217;s a documentary about genius stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford (who is best known for animating some Frank Zappa videos) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/01\/monster-road\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,52,26,164,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-bruce-bickford","category-movies","category-stop-motion-animation","category-wonders-and-novelties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}