{"id":665,"date":"2009-02-02T19:49:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2009-02-02T19:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:49:19","slug":"the-terracotta-warrior-and-the-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/02\/02\/the-terracotta-warrior-and-the-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"The terracotta warrior and the girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/syQT4PbfXEU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/syQT4PbfXEU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This giant marionette performance was presented at the Beijing Olympics last year by the pharmaceutical company Johnson &amp; Johnson.\u00a0 It derives directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?s=royal+de+luxe\">Royal de Luxe&#8217;s giant puppets<\/a>, but the story is about a Chinese girl and a butterfly awakening one of the terracotta warriors.\u00a0 If you dig down in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnj.com.cn\/olympics\/en\/tcw\/\">Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s site<\/a>, you can see the trailer, the story board and some cool photos of how the puppets were made.\u00a0 The tie to the theme of\u00a0 J&amp;J caring seems somewhat tenuous to me, but never mind!<\/p>\n<p>The companies<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airealistic.com\/poetic_kinetics\/Site_1_Public\/Gallery_\/Gallery_.html\"> Poetic Kinetics<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airealistic.com\/WGROOT\/Warrior_and_the_Girl\/W%26G.html\">AiRealistic<\/a> who were commissioned to design and develop the puppets and rig, both have interesting galleries of the process. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bankai\/sets\/72157606990245702\/\">Bankai has a Flickr photoset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This giant marionette performance was presented at the Beijing Olympics last year by the pharmaceutical company Johnson &amp; Johnson.\u00a0 It derives directly from Royal de Luxe&#8217;s giant puppets, but the story is about a Chinese girl and a butterfly awakening one of the terracotta warriors.\u00a0 If you dig down in Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s site, you [&hellip;]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[966,965,61,967,1355,1365,265,968],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets","tag-beijing","tag-giant","tag-marionettes","tag-olympics","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-royal-de-luxe","tag-terracotta-warrior"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}