{"id":61,"date":"2007-03-06T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T21:49:20","slug":"pyongyang-by-guy-delisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/pyongyang-by-guy-delisle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang by Guy Delisle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Guy Delisle&#8217;s wonderful book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/shopCatalogLong.php?st=art&#038;art=a41e32dcb62910\">Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea<\/a><\/em> last week, running across this animation was quite amusing. It&#8217;s the cutest piece of animated propaganda for a militaristic totalitarian society you&#8217;re ever likely to see.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mNR4kR1uC-w\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/imagesProduct\/a424acad074b5c.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss Pyongyang&#8230; it is Delisle&#8217;s story of a trip he took to North Korea on a gig supervising animation for a French studio. His experiences in Orwellian North Korea are bizarre, chilling, and frequently hilarious (a nice combination of effects). Delisle is an excellent cartoonist, with a keen eye for observation and a great sense of timing. <em>Pyongyang<\/em> is the first thing I&#8217;ve read by Delisle, and I&#8217;ll definitely be hunting down the rest of his works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Guy Delisle&#8217;s wonderful book Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea last week, running across this animation was quite amusing. It&#8217;s the cutest piece of animated propaganda for a militaristic totalitarian society you&#8217;re ever likely to see. Don&#8217;t miss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/pyongyang-by-guy-delisle\/\">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":[163,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-movies","category-wonders-and-novelties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}